Comment Comment by seltzered_ "and saved Indians from starving to death with 340 million metric tons of food aid"No, theres more complexity to the story. Do some research on what caused famine in India and how there's more questions around Churchill and WW2 influences.Start with https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/29/asia/churchill-bengal-fam... (Churchill’s policies to blame for millions of Indian famine deaths, study says) , which IIRC references https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018... (Drought and Famine in India, 1870–2016)Also watch the documentary "Bengal Tigers": https://youtube.com/watch?v=T31MFNLJKJw parent seltzered_ 1 year ago
No, theres more complexity to the story. Do some research on what caused famine in India and how there's more questions around Churchill and WW2 influences.
Start with https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/29/asia/churchill-bengal-fam... (Churchill’s policies to blame for millions of Indian famine deaths, study says) , which IIRC references https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018... (Drought and Famine in India, 1870–2016)
Also watch the documentary "Bengal Tigers": https://youtube.com/watch?v=T31MFNLJKJw