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> all the major powers had committed similar atrocities in their own pasts The Soviets for sure, but are you really arguing that the US and UK (and Empire) wer
by lostlogin 3y ago
> all the major powers had committed similar atrocities in their own pasts
The Soviets for sure, but are you really arguing that the US and UK (and Empire) were operating on the same industrial level?
Incidents that come to mind for me would include the Bengal famine, and it was terrible, but it wasn't the systematic and controlled killing at which the Soviets and Nazis became so expert.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-churchill-policies-contributed-to-1943-bengal-famine-study https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-church...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
- hn976827 3y ago[flagged]
- sillywalk 3y agoThe very idea of non-whites as sub-humans to be exploited was almost universal in Europe. The genocide of indigenous people, human experiments, eugenics, the whole process of colonization, any number of massacres. The Brits invented the modern concentration camp during the Boer War, see also the Opium Wars. The Philippines War, Banana Wars, Nobody is a saint, it seems to be the story of 'civilization'.