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  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    "The British Parliament and public will never tolerate mass executions"

    -man who spent years facilitating the mass executions of millions in Russia and elsewhere in a deliberate attempt to use fascism as a weapon against socialism

    "I am strongly in favor of using poison gas on uncivilized tribes"

    -Bonus quote from very same epic bacon hero regarding Afghanistan

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Churchill literally oversaw the mass killing by starvation of around 2 million Indians and an unknown number, but as many as 3-4 million Iranians during the course of the war.

      Can't shoot a hundred thousand Nazis though.