Winston Churchill was a horrible person

Winston Churchill is supposedly regarded as the greatest briton of all time for many reasons, such as steering Britain through WW2, saving them from Nazi invasion, being a freedom fighter, etc. He's known for being inspiring and refusing to give in, and was also named "man of the half century" in 1950 by Time magazine.

I'm Indian and so naturally in my history class, I was taught a lot about Indian history, colonialism, the partition of India, etc. and so my opinion on him may be a little biased. But, if you take into account all the horrible things he has done, you might come to the same conclusion as me. Some examples:

• He has said several disgusting things -
  • "I hate Indian people. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion"
  • referring to Palestinians as "barbaric hordes who ate little but camel dung"
• He has boasted of killing three 'savages' in Sudan.
• He wanted to use poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes.
• He described Mahatma Gandhi as "half-naked'.
• He played a huge role in the Bengal famine in 1943, which resulted in the death of around 3 million people. During this famine, he refused to provide India with wheat but insisted it continued to export rice to fuel war efforts. He literally called it a distraction and didn't want people to bring it up in front of him.
• He was indifferent to the plight of Indians and mocked their suffering, 'chuckling over the culling of a population that "bred like rabbits" '
• He is revered as a freedom fighter who refuses to give up, yet he was in full support of colonising India and using all of it's resources to fuel Britain's industrial revolution and resources for war.
• One of Britain's main strategies when colonising India was the 'divide and rule policy', essentially trying to prevent people from coming together, because they knew this is what would eventually end their rule. They would divide people mainly on the basis of religion (Hindus and Muslims) and this is what led to widespread violence in the partition in 1947. Churchill was in support of the 'sectarian fissures' and so even though not in power in 1947, he played a huge role in the buildup.

This isn't even the end of the list but I didn't want to make this post too long.

I, as an Indian, felt strongly about this and so I did a little bit of research (not much so I wouldn't say I'm very informed on this) in addition to my past education in and around this field, and on one of the main articles I read, I found a line that I think sums this entire opinion up - 'It's strange to celebrate his bravado in the face of Hitler's war machine and not consider his wider thinking on other parts of the world'.

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