Oh, Churchill has a mixed legacy, to be sure.
His celebration of empire, his gleeful punching down at Indians and other colonial subjects was racist and retrograde in the extreme. In WWII, he arguably wasted time devoting resources to the North African campaign, which wasn't a pivotal arena of the conflict. Of course, there was his personal responsibility for the Dardanelles disaster earlier in WWI. Towards the end of the war, Churchill opposed the establishment of the wildly popular National Health Service, part of the reason for Labour's landslide victory in 1945.
But on the biggest question of his day - dictatorship vs. democracy - Churchill was 100% right on the money. His sharp and galvanizing words against Hitler - and later, Stalin - will echo down through the years and inspire every new generation for as long as freedom rings on planet Earth.
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