Because Britain has good PR. Even today, there are people in India who do not know about the Bengal famine or Churchill’s role in the genocide!
Stalin, on the other hand, was hated by both his successors and most other countries. Again, many Indians do not know that Stalin and FDR tipped the balance in favour of the British agreeing to go away.
And India is a ‘neutral’ country, and one that greatly suffered under Britain and greatly benefitted from Soviet aid. So it is no surprise that Churchill’s crimes have been whitewashed.
Incorrect. Stalin did not order deaths by the millions. Churchill not only ordered the food taken from Bengal he actively opposed all attempts at alleviating their famine.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but he did order food to continue to be exported from India despite the ongoing starvation, correct? Isn’t that a distinction without a difference?
The British also implemented inflation policies during the war aimed at making more resources available for Allied troops. These policies, along with other economic measures, created the “forced transferences of purchasing power” to the military from ordinary people, reducing their food consumption.
The brittish themselves were close to starving, and I can’t find any specific malicious intent, so it sounds like collateral damage and a preference for britain:
while aid from Churchill’s war cabinet was limited, ostensibly due to a wartime shortage of shipping.
Shipping that was sunk by the Nazi wolfpacks.
So is this (the meme post) another try to rehabilitate the soviet atrocities?
Favorising the British over the Indians was, by itself, criminal. It was a policy failure caused by racism, a negation of the Indians’ needs. But yeah, the conditions and the intent were not the same as during the Holodomor.
Please fill me in on Churchill’s millions of dead famine plz (Serious question).
Bengal Famine lead to 2-3 million dead.
Yes but I do not see Churchil commanding it? Stalin ordered deaths by the millions. There is a big difference.
Because Britain has good PR. Even today, there are people in India who do not know about the Bengal famine or Churchill’s role in the genocide!
Stalin, on the other hand, was hated by both his successors and most other countries. Again, many Indians do not know that Stalin and FDR tipped the balance in favour of the British agreeing to go away.
And India is a ‘neutral’ country, and one that greatly suffered under Britain and greatly benefitted from Soviet aid. So it is no surprise that Churchill’s crimes have been whitewashed.
Incorrect. Stalin did not order deaths by the millions. Churchill not only ordered the food taken from Bengal he actively opposed all attempts at alleviating their famine.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but he did order food to continue to be exported from India despite the ongoing starvation, correct? Isn’t that a distinction without a difference?
I think India suffered multiple famines under UK’s rule, and one under Churchill, but I can’t say I am 100% certain
Yes it resulted between 60 millions and 160 millions death over 40 years
Let’s not forget Churchill’s use of chemical weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/sep/01/winston-churchill-shocking-use-chemical-weapons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
It was a crime, for sure; but i wouldn’t equal it with the Holodomor.
The brittish themselves were close to starving, and I can’t find any specific malicious intent, so it sounds like collateral damage and a preference for britain:
Shipping that was sunk by the Nazi wolfpacks.
So is this (the meme post) another try to rehabilitate the soviet atrocities?
You don’t even pause for a moment to ask why the fuck the tiny island of Britain is even in a position to do such a thing halfway across the world?
Their entire colonialist presence in India and Asia was malicious from the beginning.
Favorising the British over the Indians was, by itself, criminal. It was a policy failure caused by racism, a negation of the Indians’ needs. But yeah, the conditions and the intent were not the same as during the Holodomor.
Sure, but not ordering millions to die when you could have not is different.
I agree.