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.
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.