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Bengal famine.

• KaiserPro 2y ago
  Japan had nothing to do with the Bengal famine at all.
  • crowselect 2y ago
    “Caused by the brits” Where are you getting japan from?
    • KaiserPro 2y ago
      Japan was in the process of burning it's way through Burma, which is before that time was a massive producer of rice. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-26937-2_3 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-26937-2_...) South-east asia suddenly lost something like 5 million tonnes of rice production in the space of two years. Yes, the war time administration fucked up, but to say "its always the British" is reductionist and also sidelines some of the most brutal civilian subjugations of WWII.
• FromTheSteppe 2y ago
  Or Persian famine of 1917–1919, or Iranian famine of 1942–1943. Both of which the west downplays.