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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMAGAT World War 2 history
When they compared Donald Trump hiding Covid-19 to Winston Churchill, it struck a nerve with me.
I don't remember the time where Churchill hid the disaster at Dunkirk from the British people, or that he said that the Blitz was a Labor Party hoax?
However, I do remember Churchill saying this about how they would deal with the Nazi's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=FWNSG7Zikc0&feature=emb_logo
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MAGAT World War 2 history (Original Post)
TheRealNorth
Sep 2020
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Yeah, but that had nothing to do with hiding the facts to keep the population from panicking.
TheRealNorth
Sep 2020
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dflprincess
(28,647 posts)1. He did hide that Coventry was going to be bombed
in order to protect the secret that the Enigma code had been broken. But, in the long run, that saved more lives.
TheRealNorth
(9,629 posts)2. Yeah, but that had nothing to do with hiding the facts to keep the population from panicking.
So its not really a valid comparison because in the case of Coventry, he was trying to keep a military secret during wartime.
dflprincess
(28,647 posts)3. True. Nt