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Churchill greatest Briton with a dark legacy

Monday, 01 February 2016 8:33 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 01 February 2016 8:34 AM ]

UK’s former Prime Minister Winston Churchill (File photo)

Sunday, January 24, 2016 marked the anniversary of the death of one of the most lionized leaders in the Western world: Sir Winston Churchill.

The current British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has called Churchill "the greatest ever Prime Minister", and Britons have recently voted him as the greatest Briton to have ever lived.

Nothing could be further from the historical truth than labeling Winston Churchill as the beacon of freedom and democracy. To the vast majority of the world, where the sun once never set on the British empire, Winston Churchill remains a great symbol of racist Western imperialist tyranny, who stood on the wrong side of history.

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