Tariq Ali
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes
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Unabridged
21 hours 6 minutes
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My znaem Uinstona CHerchillya kak yarchayshego politicheskogo i gosudarstvennogo deyatelya, bortsa s natsizmom, nakonets, laureata Nobelevskoy premii po literature. V hode oprosa, provedennogo Bi-bi-si v 2002 godu, anglichane priznali ego velichayshim britantsem v istorii. Odnako CHerchill byl prezhde vsego chelovekom svoego vremeni, a znachit, strastnym zaschitnikom Britanskoy imperii i imperskoy idei. Imenno k etoy storone ego politicheskoy deyatelnosti, bez kotoroy portret CHerchillya byl by ne polon, obraschaetsya izvestnyy britansko-pakistanskiy pisatel, istorik, publitsist i obschestvennyy deyatel Tarik Ali. Buduchi glavoy britanskogo flota vo vremya Pervoy mirovoy voyny, CHerchill dopustil ryad katastroficheskih oshibok, unesshih tysyachi zhizney. Ego popytka sokrushit irlandskih natsionalistov ostavila rany, kotorye ne zazhili do sih por. Dazhe samyy pochitaemyy period politicheskoy karery CHerchillya, kogda shla voy na protiv natsistskoy Germanii, byl otmechen golodom v Bengalii, unesshim zhizni bolee chem treh millionov indiytsev, stolknoveniem britanskih voysk s Narodno-osvoboditelnoy armiey Gretsii i drugimi «temnymi stranitsami», kotorye podrobno zadokumentirovany v knige Tarika Ali.
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