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• I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  He did do that, but was also big racist. Not nearly as motivated as Hitler, but similar viewpoints.

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  • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Also helped create the UN, welfare state and a minimum wage.

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• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Probably referencing this, and similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

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  • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Churchill had little to do with it, other than not having enough shipping and having to prioritise feeding troops who were fighting Nazis at the time.

    Also…

    The provincial government never formally declared a state of famine, and its humanitarian aid was ineffective through the worst months of the crisis. It attempted to fix the price of rice paddy through price controls which resulted in a black market which encouraged sellers to withhold stocks, leading to hyperinflation from speculation and hoarding after controls were abandoned. Aid increased significantly when the British Indian Army took control of funding in October 1943

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Any explanation for this one?

      theguardian.com/…/athens-1944-britains-dirty-secr…

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      • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh, are we gonna get into a pissing contest about which system of government has killed more people?

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    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      other than not having enough shipping and having to prioritise feeding troops

      That is a choice he made, not something that just happened, and it resulted in at least a million (likely much more) civilian deaths in their own territory.

      The provincial government

      Gee, I wonder who put the provincial government in charge in a British colony? 🙄

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      • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And why did he make that choice?

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• diemartin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Just to clarify, I’m not British.

  But what @I_Fart_Glitter said.

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• teslekova@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Google Churchill and Bengal famine.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Lots to choose from, but this is usually the one I like to point to:

  theguardian.com/…/athens-1944-britains-dirty-secr…

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