Although the phrase “history is written by the victors” was attributed to Winston Churchill, it was spoken in several different languages before that. In fact, the most infamous use of that phrase in World War II did not come from Churchill, but rather from the German named Göring who reportedly said at Nuremberg, “The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.” This was at least the phrase spoken by the actor playing Göring in the movie titled The Report and it’s believed to be historically accurate.>In no other case of history is this phrase more true than the alleged Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1850. While it is true there was a minor potato famine in Ireland during that time, the bigger issue is what happened on top of that famine, namely, that the English forcibly stole nearly all of the other crops belonging to the Irish in the mid 19th century. This included not only fruits and vegetables, but their livestock, dairy and nearly all their provisions and supplies.>That British government commanded over 100,000 soldiers to remove the Irish food and bring it to England. This was genocide by starvation. One of the motives was the fact that the English were Protestant and the Irish were Catholic. In total, the English killed 5 million Irish, which was half the population of the Green Isle in 1840. As we will see later, this may comprise 5 million red martyrs for the Catholic Church.

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