Today, on "Aesthetically Unappealing Rigs"

You are indeed doing it wrong.

I suggest reading a well-written, well-researched history of the period.

Andrew Roberts' Churchill - Walking With Destiny would be a good start, as is William Manchester's The Last Lion. For Churchill's principled stand against what Nazi Germany was doing beginning in 1933, Tim Bouverie's Appeasement is a good introduction. Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices is also a good overview of the period.

I can also suggest Zara Steiner's Triumph of the Dark as one of the finest and most readable pieces of historical research ever done.

Churchill did principled and great things to prevent the Third Reich from taking over all of Europe and Russia permanently. He was the outstanding figure of the 20th Century.

Imperfect? Certainly. So are we all.
As "they" say; right man, right time
 
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