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Originally Posted by Triggaaar
Ah, you mean the Poles living in Britain. It's a bit of an understatement that the poles got a bad deal in general, but I think complaining about Churchill is just a bit silly. He didn't have to declare war on Germany at all, he could have easily remained neutral, along with a bundle of other European nations. It would have been better for the British people (less death, less destruction, less hardship, more money). It's difficlut to overstate how stupid British diplomats were following the war, footing such a large bill for it all.
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Well, actually it wasn't Churchill who declared war, it was Chamberlain, although Churchill had advocated gearing up for action since before the re-militarisation of the Rhineland.
I'd say the
Allied diplomats were stymied, rather than stupid, but you're certainly correct about us 'footing the bill'.
On the other hand
'victory at all costs, no matter how long and hard the road may be' may have included the financial cost, which of course bankrupted the Empire Churchill loved so much. A price he was prepared to pay to see the downfall of
'a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime'.
Thinking about the society we now 'enjoy', I often wonder what he'd think of it.
