Reiterating, yet again, the crimes of British Imperialism, Capitalism and Churchill.
So while millions of Jews were dying at the hands of Hitler, millions of Bengalis were dying at the hands of Churchill. (Arguably the Jews were killed by Churchill too as he was the one who started the war and cut off their food supplies).
It wasn't until reports of bodies piled high in the streets of Bengal reached Britain (with letters like Major X Y complaining he could barely get to his gentleman's club for all the bodies he needed step over) that the British public started an uproar.
British people have always been opposed to Imperialism, Wars and the mass enslavement and slaughter of foreigners ever since the Georgian rise of the Empire; there was always some guilt at the way cheap goods appeared on our shelves (even in 1700s), and we still are, although a bit weary now after centuries of endless wars (UK has fought over 800 years of war since start of Capitalism--by far the world's highest--, and US has fought inside and outside the country for all but 16 years of its whole existence) and atrocities committed by our own country, and now joined by America, and then lied about in absurd propaganda. Churchill's response was "they deserve to die for breeding like rabbits" armed with his genocidal hatred of Indians.
Eventually popular demand led to the stopping of food exports so the Bengalis could feed themselves. Hitler didn't have this option to end his famine as the British and Russians were activity stopping food supplies.
SO Churchill murders 3 million and writes them out of history, kills 12million and blames it on Hitler (over 50% of victims of the German famine (aka Holocaust) died from the effects of starvation post war). And arguably is responsible for all 80 million deaths for avoiding peace at every opportunity of which there were at least 3 major opportunities.
Yah Imperialism (controlling foreign economies and thereby politics from London) and Capitalism (owning foreign businesses and extracting wealth from other countries) has basically been a crime and it is still on going and seemingly unstoppable. While Blacks were pulling down statues the actual one that really needs to come down is Churchill in Parliament Square.
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