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Winston Churchill isn’t to blame for the Bengal famine

21 January 2023

7:00 PM

21 January 2023

7:00 PM

Sir Winston Churchill arguably saved civilisation as we know it. Had Britain capitulated to Germany after the fall of France, the Nazis would have been able to dedicate their entire force to the invasion of the Soviet Union, probably taking the entire Eurasian front. North Africa would have become fascist Italy’s playhouse, with the United States isolated.

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