"History," Winston Churchill said, "will judge me kindly, because I intend to write it myself.' He needn't have bothered. Of the great mass murderers of the 20th century, he is the only one to have completely escaped the odium deservingly bestowed on his rivals Hitler and Stalin, to have been crowned with a Nobel Prize (for Literature, no less), and now even with an Oscar."
Shashi Tharoor's essay on the former British PM.
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