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[-] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago

Grok, is this true?

[-] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's underselling how racist Churchill was towards Indians. "Beastly people with a beastly religion".

Though, to be fair, he was also racist towards african peoples, jewish people, arab people, the Chinese and the Irish.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

And Australia's First Nations peoples

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago

Don't ask Churchill about his undue sympathy toward captured Nazi soldiers either

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Brits committed horrific atrocities in India. They pillaged the country and engineered multiple famines.

I recommend the Anarchy by William Darlymple which covers the rise of the British East India company.

They were the Zionists of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, They wrecked the areas they colonised leaving lasting wars and instability up to the present day.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Some actual Churchill quotes. This is who repeatedly gets voted the "Greatest Briton" by the British people.

  • "It is, thank heaven, difficult if not impossible for the modern European to fully appreciate the force which fanaticism exercises among an ignorant, warlike and Oriental population. Several generations have elapsed since the nations of the West have drawn the sword in religious controversy, and the evil memories of the gloomy past have soon faded in the strong, clear light of Rationalism and human sympathy. Indeed it is evident that Christianity, however degraded and distorted by cruelty and intolerance, must always exert a modifying influence on men's passions, and protect them from the more violent forms of fanatical fever, as we are protected from smallpox by vaccination."
  • "I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China — I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph."
  • "I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race."
  • "I think a curse should rest on me — because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment — and yet — I can't help it — I enjoy every second of it."
  • "One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks."
  • "I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes."
  • "There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews, it is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others."
  • "One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations."
  • "I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."
  • "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."
[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

“There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews, it is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others.”

almost indistinguishable from Hitler

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Never read Churchill essays on the good and bad jews.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago
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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Why was china hit with a famine again?

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Literally due natural disasters because China was not developed enough to face them. China had famines every other year throughout all history before the communists won but of course the narrative is that communism is when famine.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

And the great famine was exacerbated by the campaign to eliminate the "four pests", but the experts at the time were divided on the issue, and the party corrected course as soon as they saw other pests such as locusts increase and on the advice of other experts. They weren't just handing down nonsense orders willy nilly, they were desperately experimenting on the fly to make sure that famine stopped being an issue, and it did relatively soon.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Lysenkoism, Anti-intellectualism and other terrible terrible policies. But hey, Mao ate veggies uwu

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Because Brits exploited the resources. For eg in Bengal famine Brits were exporting rice, whereas Indian people were starving and other reasons were high tax imposition and debt trap on farmers. The forced Indigo farming in 1/4 of the farm made the soil less cultivable for the next time. Many reasons.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago
  • Forced collectivisation of an entirely agrarian economy.

  • Industrial policy that encouraged small scale iron smelting in homemade furnaces causing huge environmental damage.

  • Agricultural policy that ordered the extermination of sparrows who then couldn't keep insect populations down causing catastrophic damage to crops.

  • Brutally cracked down on any dissenting voices, including scientists who happened to point out the potential flaws in Maos plan

  • Contrary to OPs post, covering up the mistakes afterward and blaming outside influences and counter-revolutionaries rather than the failure of central policy.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I mean, Churchill was a massive racist. The famine in India killed approx. 2.1 million people.

But Zedong's policies led to a famine that killed approx. 36 million peoole, literally 10-15 times worse. It's nice that he grew his own veggies I guess but fuck me that's an insane failure of policy. If you managed to fuck up so bad you end up killing 36 million, I think it's fair to say you deserved the title of monster.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The famine in India was very much manmade and could have been greatly mitigated if Britain desired, much like the Irish Genocide. The famine in China absolutely didn't result in the deaths of 36 million, that's Black Book of Bullshit numbers and it was sadly a common occurrence well before Mao was in power, which is why they were trying to get rid of pests in the first place: food security was a huge issue, one that has thankfully been solved since the party acknowledged the experts and corrected course.

As expected, the toll of Churchill's genocide is pushed down as far down as you can while it's zillions and bajillions whenever the commies are to blame. It's transparent as hell.

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