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History Forum / General / British History / July 2008Top Russian?
I see that a current poll in Russia for "the greatest Russian of all time" is presently tying Nicholas II with Stalin! What! Whatever happened to Peter the Great? However, a similar US poll apparently produced Reagan, so ...... At least we Brits stayed safe with Winnie. Surreyman Yet so many of you Brits have a visceral hatred for Sir Winston, or at best grudging tolerance. You've made it fashionable and posh to mock him on non-essentials. You do the same with Maggie.  SignatureDSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas Vires et Honor > I see that a current poll in Russia for "the greatest Russian of all > time" is presently tying Nicholas II with Stalin! [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Surreyman > Yet so many of you Brits have a visceral hatred for Sir Winston, or at best > grudging tolerance. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > - Show quoted text - You stupid sod. If you ever learned how to read, you'd see that my previous posts are very much in admiration of Winnie, warts and all. One of the UK's greatest. I was even at his funeral, for Gawd's sake. It's just that normal people also recognise the warts, and don't go 100% pro or con, which seems to be all you can manage. Twit! Surreyman So many of you Brits have a visceral hatred for Sir Winston, or at best grudging tolerance. You've made it fashionable and posh to mock him on non-essentials. You do the same with Maggie, as we see so often with Brit pogues on these newsgroups. Rather than hold up your Greatest National Heroes as role models you try to debunk them and castigate them for all sorts of silly and trivial reasons. You've done the same thing with Wellington, Drake, Nelson, Henry II, Henry V, Elizabeth I, Palmerston, Chinese Gordon, Victoria and Mountbatten. While at the same time you idolize your rock stars and "Princess Diana"... No Wonder You Are A Nation & A People In Decline -- Jaded, Cynical, Small-Minded & Perverse. Any country that makes a National Icon out of someone as distasteful and perverse as Elton John has SERIOUS problems. Hell, even Renia Simmonds recognized several years ago that the rot had firmly set in in Britain and became an expatriatrix, moving to Greece with her "hubbie". SignatureDSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas Vires et Honor Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum > So many of you Brits have a visceral hatred for Sir Winston, or at best > grudging tolerance. wiinie looked bulldoggy and he could turn a phrase whether speaking or writing but anytime he personally got involved in the planning the result was usually a disaster. > So many of you Brits have a visceral hatred for Sir Winston, or at best > grudging tolerance. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > Vires et Honor > Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum How are the Spanish lessons going David? Bryn > I see that a current poll in Russia for "the greatest Russian of all > time" is presently tying Nicholas II with Stalin! > > What! Whatever happened to Peter the Great? Or Ivan the Terrible. > However, a similar US poll apparently produced Reagan, so ...... Oh geez. I'm surprised it wasn't Clint Eastwood... > At least we Brits stayed safe with Winnie. Pat Buchanan's going after him as a warmonger. Which isn't that far from the truth.... expect a flurry of books questioning the necessity of WWI and WWII, or at least US involvement there... > Surreyman -- Les Cargill |
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