Winston Churchill didn't exist

BlueFire · 02-03-2008, 11:45 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080204...historyoffbeat

Professor S · 02-04-2008, 08:53 AM

Wow, thats.... wow... thats a shame. I suppose this might be chalked up to the ever increasing cynicism of society. I suppose a portion of the population would believe that any truly great man either never existed or was never truly great.

Winston Chruchill held Britain together long after it should have fallen apart in WW2. He should never be dissolved as a myth.

Perfect Stu · 02-04-2008, 03:15 PM

Is this just a matter of being uninformed, or a belief in conspiracy?

Dyne · 02-04-2008, 04:17 PM

Was it 1948's release of 1984 that brought in the idea of a Big Brother?

Bond · 02-04-2008, 04:20 PM

I'm not quite sure what Dyne was getting at, but on a related note Animal Farm and 1984 are awesome.

Dyne · 02-04-2008, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Bond

I'm not quite sure what Dyne was getting at, but on a related note Animal Farm and 1984 are awesome.

Seriously, 1984 was released after WW2 was done and finished. Maybe they assumed Churchill was more of a team than one person.

Bube · 02-04-2008, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Bond

I'm not quite sure what Dyne was getting at, but on a related note Animal Farm and 1984 are awesome.

Steering the topic towards books, and having read (and loved) both of those, I'd say Brave New World is better than both of them.

And about the topic - I have to say I'm not surprised. I don't think these people are trying to say that the history we read about in books was made up, these people are so ignorant that they think these are movie characters. We had something like this a few years ago here in Turkey - people couldn't name the president of Turkey. These people exist, unfortunately.