REASONS THAT WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS BOTH A CELEBRATED AND CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE

CHURCHILL ONCE DREW UP PLANS TO ATTACK

THE SOVIET UNION. CALLED OPERATION

UNTHINKABLE, IT INVOLVED MOBILIZING NEARLY

100,000 FORMER NAZI TROOPS

BECAUSE HE HAD A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT, HE STUDIED

AND PREPARED HIS SPEECHES BEFOREHAND INTENSELY

ALTHOUGH HE IS WIDELY KNOWN FOR HIS INSPIRING

RHETORIC THAT ALMOST SINGLEHANDEDLY

PREVENTED THE WEST FROM COMPLETELY FALLING

TO THE NAZIS, CHURCHILL DID SOME VERY

CONTROVERSIAL THINGS DURING HIS TIME IN POWER

ONCE, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WAR, HE DIVERTED

FOOD SUPPLIES FROM INDIA TO THE FRONT LINES

IN EUROPE. BECAUSE OF THIS, MILLIONS OF INDIANS

ENDED UP STARVING TO DEATH

IN 1899 CHURCHILL WAS SENT TO PRISON IN

SOUTH AFRICA AS A JOURNALIST. HE ENDED UP

ESCAPING AND WALKING/JUMPING ON TRAINS

FOR NEARLY 300 MILES

BOTH WINSTON CHURCHILL AND TEDDY ROOSEVELT

HAVE CLAIMED TO HAVE SEEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S

GHOST IN THE WHITE HOUSE

WHEN THE BRITISH BULLDOG WAS TOLD THAT HE

COULDN'T DRINK IN THE PRESENCE OF THE

SAUDI KING BECAUSE OF HIS RELIGION, CHURCHILL

REPLIED THAT "MY RELIGION PRESCRIBED AS AN

ABSOLUTE SACRED RITUAL SMOKING CIGARS

AND DRINKING ALCOHOL BEFORE, AFTER AND IF

NEED BE DURING ALL MEALS AND THE

INTERVALS BETWEEN THEM."

BOTH CHURCHILL AND KING GEORGE VI WANTED

TO GO ALONG WITH THE ALLIED SOLDIERS ON

D-DAY BUT WERE DISSUADED BY AN ADMIRAL

(BERTRAM RAMSAY) WHO SAID HE WOULDN'T TAKE

RESPONSIBILITY FOR EITHER OF THEM AND

THAT IF THINGS WENT WRONG THEY WOULD

BOTH BE NEEDED BACK HOME

ALTHOUGH WINSTON DID WIN A NOBEL PRIZE,

IT WAS IN LITERATURE AND NOT PEACE