Churchill was certainly no friend of he working classes (apparently the crane operators along the Thames had to be paid overtime to lower the the cranes as part of his funeral procession). He believed in the superiority of white "races" and supposedly hated Ghandi.
It would be a great error to claim that he "single handedly defeated Hitler"; I think that Gopal is over egging their case in assuming that anyone has stated that.
But, Churchill was a great figurehead in a time of national (world? definitely European) crisis. His actions, and use of his American family ties bought Britain enough time to survive (just!) until the Americans entered the war as combatants.
By the standards of today, some of his thoughts and deeds were reprehensible - he was a "man of his times", as was Abraham Lincoln
Portion of Lincoln's speech (in "Lincoln / Douglas" debates 1858 ):
"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races — that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything."
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