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> Churchill's decisions directly lead to the death of millions of people in India. He's no better than Hitler It gets even more ironic than that. During the 19
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> Churchill's decisions directly lead to the death of millions of people in India. He's no better than Hitler
It gets even more ironic than that. During the 1940s Bengal famine, things were so bad that the Axis powers offered to step in and send humanitarian aid. Churchill not only refused, but he tried to prevent the newspapers from printing news of the offer, so that people wouldn't know how truly unnecessary their starvation was.
Lest I be mistaken, this is not to say that the Axis powers were somehow anything other than evil themselves. But it does highlight the level of hypocrisy of the British to claim the moral high ground when their own leader was intentionally starving millions to death out of spite. (And yes, it was spite - read what Churchill himself said on the topic).
- user982 9y agoChurchill was merely following proud English tradition: when the Great Famine decimated Ireland as a result of British policies (and during which Irish food exports to England continued unabated), Queen Victoria prevented the Ottoman Sultan from donating more aid and food than she had herself.
- DoubleCribble 9y agoBeing neither British nor Indian, I'd always thought of the British as not horrible colonialists of India, that is until I listened to Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast. [1]http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/15-the-prime-minister-and-the-prof http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/15-the-prime-minister...
- gertef 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 offers an alternative view. "Offering aid to your enemy, to highlight their weakness" is a standard propaganda technique, not to be taken at face value. > hypocrisy of the British to claim the moral high ground when their own leader was intentionally starving millions to death no disagreement here.
- itissid 9y agoWhy is this Winston asshole a hero again? Stabbed so many people in the back. One can understand if not condone the pre WW2 packs that compromised with Hitler. This is inexcusable.