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churchill made a lot of mistakes in the first world war and second world war ,he lost a lot of life's, but he was the man of the moment in the second word war, politicly he did nothing of any consequence to be remembered for .

 

No. After Churchill in 1945, Clement Attlee came to power started what Gorbachev did in the late 80's: he dismantled the British Empire to save Britain, both financially and diplomatically. The biggest foreign policy decision made by Attlee was, of course, the independence of the British Raj. India experienced the worst eras in their history under British rule, with three of their worst famines ever. They faced further problems after the independence, but at least the tyrannical free market exploitation of the British were ending.

 

But Winston Churchill, as the Tories were all hellbent on the subject, returned as Prime Minister in 1950. He did several things and one was him overthrowing the first democratically elected leader of Iran alongside Eisenhower, just because the new Iranian leader was nationalizing the oil in the country. That threatened British interests in Iran because the Anglo-Iranian Oil company (now we know them as BP) held the assets. He and Eisenhower instated the Shah in Iran, who became one of the worst US-UK backed dictators of the region.

 

There was also the violent crackdown on the Malaysian independence movement and the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. Tens and thousands of people died under Churchill's desperate struggle to keep the Empire alive.

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