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Zelensky echoes Churchill in speech to House of Commons

Woke warriors have declared war on Winston Churchill saying the iconic leader’s use of the word Hun to describe Germans was “derogatory”.

Research by the National Archives highlights the “use of the derogatory word” in a letter to his US counterpart Franklin D Roosevelt, the Sun reports

Writing to the President in 1941 – as Britain and the Allies stood against the Nazi war machine – Sir Winston wrote: “We are just off. It is twenty-seven years ago that Huns began their last war.

“We must make a good job of it this time. Kindest regards.”

In a blog by archives author Mark Dutton on Churchills secret missions to meet Allied leaders, he observes: “The use of the derogatory word ‘Huns’ to describe the Germans obviously needs to be viewed in the historical context.”

Speaking to The Sun Chris McGovern, of the Campaign for Real Education, said: “It is demeaning, shameful and barmy.

“It doesn’t help anyone if common historical terms require trigger warnings. If people using the archives have to be protected from such terms, where does it end? Huns was a term used by heroes to describe what they saw as Nazi atrocities.

“The National Archives are the custodians of our national history, they shouldn’t be sanitising the past.”

It was a German leader who first coined the use of the words Hun to describe his own people during military operations in China in 1900. Kaiser Wilhelm II made the reference to his troops as to how they should act towards ‘rebels’.

During World War I and II the Kaiser’s words came back to haunt him as the Allies used to the term to describe German forces.

Historically the Hun were a nomadic warlike people who invaded Europe and Asia in the fifth century AD.

A National Archives spokesman said: “There is no trigger warning on the blog. The author included a line within the text to explain a derogatory term no longer commonly used.”

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