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  • Vncredleader
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    2 years ago

    Churchill honestly wasn't. I hate to admit it but he was pushing for Franco-Soviet relations for a while for example. Churchill liked Franco and Mussolini, but he hated Hitler, particularly because Hitler was German.

      • Vncredleader
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        2 years ago

        Yeah reading 1939 by Carrey has really gotten across that Churchill, evil though he was, did not trust Hitler one bit. He sought out officials from both sides to push for them to fulfill their planned staff talks and unfulfilled obligations of French arms to the USSR. As well as talking with Soviet ambassadors about Soviet accomplishments, he was apparently "thrilled" about the industrialization east of the Urals.

        Appeasement was Chamberlain and Halifax, through and through

    • huf [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      that's the stupidest reason to hate him tho. especially since he was austrian.

      • Vncredleader
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        2 years ago

        It made him representative of both major European Central Powers, plus Churchill always hated Germans and Austrians to him are just south Germans