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Into The Storm HBO Docu-drama

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Only 64 years later, and the able hands behind the motion picture camera have thought to finally do yet another documentary drama of the life of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of Great Britain during the period of World War II. The writers declared a "fresh" view and look into "different aspects" of Churchill's "character", and his "nature".

Churchill was a God save England, and God save the king and queen type of British leader. He was a patriot to the British people. He was an opponent of the British Labour Party, and that's where the Christian viewer might look to draw the line within this modern "fresh" look of his life at the hands of HBO, especially with some of the ideas the writers speak of Churchill's character in the special features section.

In essence, Into The Storm is a modern 'politically correct' version of Churchill's ministry. Churchill is portrayed at times as backward and ignorant in his beliefs against the ideas of a socialist welfare state, a type of state the Labour Party was fighting for politically. Even Churchill's wife Clemme was used in the politically correct ploy to portray Winston at odds even with her character involving liberal ideas of socialism.

The writers did preserve though, Churchill's deeply hurt reaction at U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's warmth to Joseph Stalin's demands for Poland at the Yalta Conference, a conference which handed over east Berlin, Poland, and many traditionally Christian nations in middle Europe to Communist Russia's control almost overnight when the war ended.

Churchill was one of those western leaders who well understood the threat of socialist idealism and the beginning threat of Stalin's Communist Russia at the end of World War II. Socialists both in America and Europe had built up such a pristine image of Uncle Joe (Joseph Stalin), and had helped build the armies and resources of Stalin's Russia in battling Nazi Germany at such great a trust, that to consider Russia a threat right after the war was seen by many as politically incorrect for the times.

The HBO writers still took pains in trying to show Churchill as a war-monger in contrast to the supposed good socialist ideas of his wife, and of certain leaders within the British government, like Lord Halifax.

As much as the writers apparently would like us to view Churchill as somewhat 'mad' in some sorts because of supposed eccentric behaviour, like smoking cigars and enjoying brandy, beware the goal in doing that is to contrast Churchill's stand against the ideas of socialist idealism against his honor of king and country, and to those who knew what it meant to fight for freedom and victory.

Also, don't forget the commentaries of the writer framing the British royal families and aristocracy with the supposed biological evolutionary mistakes that come from inter-breeding, speech impediments, bum legs and all the like (totally preposterous ideas of course, since these same socialist thinkers don't see the same problem among small tribes of Indians that bred among distant relatives of their own). There has long been attacks upon the idea of a monarchy type system of government by tenets of socialism. The reason is because a monarchy of king and queen which has ultimate political control of a nation is the most difficult type of nation for socialists to overthrow by take over from within.
 
You kept saying socialism and socialist, but never explained any of the socialist ideas.

People, can we please stop using buzzwords, and actually speak for ourselves for once?

You think this documentry tries to make Churchhill look uncaring to the common man and women while his wife shows more sympathy. Fine. Address it that way. There is no need to keep saying the word socialist when in fact England is still a freemarket system and still has class issues from the influence of its industrialized boom and Calvin influence.


The world isn't black and white and we need contrast. People either want the Churchill that was white washed and made out to be a historical hero that gave great speaches and led the UK through a tough war. Yep that was Churchill. Then there are those that see him as the man that gassed his own people in military screwups, and treated the Middleeast like crap. Thats him to.

Either way, he was just a man, a noteable man, but a fallabel man none the less.

Liberalism and socialism both have their merrits, and both need to be weighed in order to get both benefits.
 
Many today may not understand the early meaning of the word "socialist", so here's a couple of markers of socialist type systems:

USSR - United Soviet Socialist Republic

Adolf Hitler's Nationalist Socialist Party system, and government of Germany.

Both systems used philosophical principles from western European philosophers like Hegel in developing their particular brand of socialism. With Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, it later produced the USSR, and persecution of religous freedom and human rights. And with Hitler's Germany, it produced a socialist state with a 'nationalist' charachter, one that would produce the Holocaust, along with persecution of religious freedom and human rights. Socialist governments do not have a good track record with religious freedom and human rights.
 
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