As we all know, Churchill was a British bourgeois politician and the spokesman of the largest colonial empire in the world. There are also some disgusting places in his character. As a result, some people turned him away.
However, for a long time, many people have been fascinated by him and admired him.
He said: "Fear and hatred are the ugliest human nature." Then, the most beautiful human nature he advocated and vigorously promoted is courage and love. Probably, this is the "Linxi" between him and the people attracted by him, "but I feel the harmonious heartbeat of the sacred unicorn".
Indeed, he is the embodiment of courage and perseverance and the natural enemy of fear, cowardice and mediocrity. It's just that he is not absolutely opposed to hatred. What he said is too simple and abstract, and it needs to be combined with his behavior to determine what he means by hatred.
He was fearless all his life. When he realizes his pursuit, no matter how many "no" others say to him, he turns a deaf ear; Determined to fight politically and militarily, he deleted "failure" from his vocabulary in advance. He is a strongman in many aspects, with many record-breaking and first-place achievements, which others dare not even think about.
He braved hardships and went forward bravely. As a rich man and a noble, he just doesn't like comfort and happiness. He just found his way out of school, crossed the ocean and entered the world, and plunged into the gunfire of a foreign country to realize his life value.
He ignored the difficulties and stepped on them to reach the top. I stuttered when I was a child, and my grades in school were mostly poor. For physiological reasons, I always can't pronounce S correctly. I have never received formal or informal higher education, and I study and exercise hard in a hectic life. Finally, I became an excellent journalist, an outstanding speaker in the 20th century, a prolific and best-selling writer and a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
He didn't like it in primary and secondary schools, so he didn't learn math and physics well, and he didn't receive any technical training in the future. But when the war needed it, he dared to think and do it, and even made inventions in military science and technology. Manufacturing powerful new weapon tanks, designing tank landing craft with barbed wire destroyers, and building artificial ports where there is no port for large troops to land quickly all shine with his rich imagination and courage to explore.
No setbacks in life and political turmoil can scare him. He is unhurried and indomitable in the ups and downs of his official career. Being a member of parliament at the age of 26 and a minister at the age of 33 is really rare in Britain, which pays attention to tradition and has an aging bureaucracy. However, this new political star has taken a tortuous road. He went in and out of the two parties, moved around in the positions of ministers in nine ministries, and was demoted several times, the longest being ten years in opposition. It was not until the age of 66 that he was appointed prime minister when a strong enemy attacked. After stepping down, I firmly believe that I will make a comeback. Sure enough, I am 77 years old and responsible to the Prime Minister.
He is also a fighter who insists on challenging physical weakness and illness. He won health and longevity from difficulties with courage, willpower and optimism. Two months premature, congenital deficiency, childhood diseases. When I was young, I fell into a deep valley again and suffered a severe concussion for three days and three nights. I dislocated my right shoulder once, and it will fall off again after years of hard work. People encounter car accidents in middle age. At the age of seventy, he was overworked and suffered from cor pulmonale. In his eighties, he suffered a severe stroke, and his spine and hip bones were broken one after another.
However, relying on his tenacious desire to survive, insisting on physical exercise and regular work and rest, he managed to overcome his illness many times, recover quickly, drive away the death of knocking at the door, and carry on the long-distance running of his life to the 55 th day after he was 90 years old.
He said that hatred is also the ugliest nature of human beings, so when it doesn't involve his class position and political beliefs, he doesn't hold personal grudges against people, and he is also generous to political enemies and defeated countries.
However, a living person, if he loves, will have enemies. Churchill hated socialist countries, local workers' movements and the struggle of colonial people for independence. However, he especially hates fascism, which hates all mankind. Out of great love for the British Empire, he led the British people in an arduous, heroic and wise struggle against German and Italian fascists. In the most glorious period of his life, he put aside the past, showed broad mind and tolerance, and forged ahead in unity with the broad masses of people at home and abroad.
Once his deep love and deep hatred find a combination point in the right direction, his fearless spirit of contempt for fear will develop into great courage to build immortal feats, promote historical progress and benefit mankind. In Britain before the Second World War, with his rare foresight and great awakening, he persistently sounded the alarm of the coming war. After the war broke out, he stayed at the top of Mount Tai. The more critical he was, the more tenacious he became. He worked day and night to inspire the people's fighting spirit, unite the whole country, strive for national standard assistance, turn the Soviet Union into a United Soviet Union, and lead Britain, which has not waged an anti-aggression war for thousands of years, to fight for the survival of the nation. Finally, we turned the tide, from self-defense to counterattack, until we plowed the fields and completely wiped out the fascist robbers. He made an indelible contribution to the victory of the world anti-fascist war. The V-shaped symbol of victory created by his fingers spread all over the world, and his name will go down in history forever.
Nixon said: "A reliable formula for bringing a leader into the ranks of great men includes three elements:
Big shot, big country, big event. Churchill's success can not be separated from the manpower and material support of Britain, a developed capitalist country, and must rely on the world people's anti-fascist war, otherwise there will be no Churchill myth.
Shakespeare said: "Some people are born great, some people become great, and some people's greatness is imposed."
Churchill was undoubtedly great, mainly through his own efforts. Even if it is "taking the law, it is only right", Churchill's deeds still inspire and inspire people with lofty ideals.
Bravely approach Churchill, know Churchill correctly, and learn from Churchill selectively. I hope this book can contribute to this.
1. Born in a wealthy family.
/kloc-during the period of 0/874, Queen Victoria of the British Empire came to power, which coincided with the golden age when the world's national strength reached its peak. Naturally, as soon as the sun is at the top, it begins to tilt slowly from the sky to the west.
One night in late autumn and early winter, in Brenheim Palace near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, the lights were shining, the music was melodious and a grand dance was going on. Although Britain has a maritime climate, it is cool in summer and warm in winter, but the excessively humid air still makes the skin feel chilly. In this magnificent duke's mansion built as a national victory monument, humidity and cold have been isolated from the outside world. A group of noble men and women took off their heavy coats, hung up their cold-proof crowns, and immediately danced happily, feeling a warm and happy spring.
While the music was playing and the dance was in full swing, Mrs. Jenny Churchill, a beautiful young woman with heavy make-up, exquisite clothes, elegant manners and a bulging abdomen, suddenly felt a pain in her stomach like a needle and was sweating all over. She used to be a lively American girl. She once lived a high-level cultural and entertainment life in Paris with her parents. After marrying Lord Randolph Churchill in Paris in mid-April, she came to her husband's hometown as a bride for the first time on May 25th. This is a small country town, and she has always been used to socializing with colorful light music and dance in social occasions. How can she stand the loneliness and boredom of rural life? By the end of 1 1, she had been pregnant for more than seven months and was still trying her best to have fun. On the 24th, she went out hunting with others, fell down and was frightened. Then my husband went to Oxford University to attend the graduation ceremony and accept the degree certificate. On the 29th, there is a dance at Blenheim Palace, and she can't miss this great opportunity. Neither her mother-in-law nor her sister-in-law of the same age can dissuade this woman who loves to catch up with the excitement and have fun. Finally, the pain in the middle of the dance suddenly broke out!
(1) Marquis, earl, viscount can be called Lord, baron will be called Lord. The sons of dukes and marquises can also be called lords, which is only a polite title, not a real aristocrat. Jenny resisted for a while, but it was useless. "Want to have children?" She thought to herself. Without telling anyone, she hurried to her bedroom.
"ouch!" Less than ten steps in the carpeted corridor, she let out a cry of pain. People came and quickly helped her into a temporary women's dressing room nearby, where coats, hats and fur collars were piled up.