Was Hitler the Devil as is commonly the epithet thrust on him? How many devils have there been then in the history of the world and how many of them have been British and American devils, too? It seems that the Anglo-Americans have a monopoly in labelling others the way they do but desist from self-denunciation thus.
Churchill's track record rivals Hitler close and Truman's goes a step closer. Stalin being a Communist deserves the 'civilised' world's censure for sure but Churchill deserves a knighthood for his loyal services to the Crown which included perpetrating the worst crime in Bengal when a single decision of his wiped out 4.3 million Bengalis in a famine induced by the British.
When the Soviets were closing in on Japan, the United States of America, in its bid to acquire future world hegemony, dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to stall the Soviet progress by forcing Japan to surrender before the Red Army reached her shores. Truman did it and he was hailed as the liberator of humanity from fascist barbarism of the Second World War.
The victor ever chronicles the history of the war it wins and so it was that Hitler became Lucifer and Churchill-Truman Archangel Gabriel. Netaji was termed fascist for alliance with Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo, and Churchill was deemed patriot premier and the saviour of civilisation for alliance with Stalin, no less a barbarian than Hitler was in the eyes of the Anglo-Americans till when his services were required to save the island nation from servitude.
So, there we are with the Anglo-American chronicling of world history and our intellectual indigestion thereof. It is time we start disengaging from such conspiratorial chronicling of epochal events and read afresh into our historical past with an unbiased vision and unclouded judgement. Let such a fresh perspective grow from our own motherland where we ought to stop suffering the hangover of our colonial past and break free psychologically from this colonial servitude as we surge ahead into the future of limitless possibilities devoid of perfidious pronouncements on our patriot premier, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo (source -- internet) : left, Ribbentrop, centre, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, right, Adolph Hitler.
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