That's rather like saying that the famine in Ukraine caused by Soviet collectivization policies in the 1930s was nothing unusual, since: > "From the beginning

That's rather like saying that the famine in Ukraine caused by Soviet collectivization policies in the 1930s was nothing unusual, since: > "From the beginning of the 11th to the end of the 16th century, on the territory of Russia for every century there were 8 crop failures, which were repeated every 13 years, sometimes causing prolonged famine in a significant territory. The causes of the famine were different, from natural (droughts, crop failures, low rainfall in a certain year) and economic and political crises; for example, the Great Famine of 1931–1933, colloquially called the Holodomor, the cause of which was the collectivization policy in the USSR..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in_Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in_Russia... It's historically undeniable that Churchill had no qualms when it came to actively destroying resistance to colonial rule, and complete indifference to the fates of the Indian subcontinent's people is no surprise: > "Churchill suggested that chemical weapons should be used “against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment.” He added “I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes to spread a lively terror” in Iraq." https://english.alarabiya.net/special-reports/winston-churchill/2015/02/19/Was-Churchill-advocate-of-chemical-weapons-use-in-Mideast- https://english.alarabiya.net/special-reports/winston-church...