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.
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.
Churchill's racism has its own Wikipedia page! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Winston_Churchill
And Australia's First Nations peoples
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Some actual Churchill quotes. This is who repeatedly gets voted the "Greatest Briton" by the British people.
“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
Don't ask Churchill about his undue sympathy toward captured Nazi soldiers either
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.
Never read Churchill essays on the good and bad jews.
Why was china hit with a famine again?
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.
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.
Lysenkoism, Anti-intellectualism and other terrible terrible policies. But hey, Mao ate veggies uwu
Why was India?
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.
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.