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Not to have someone launch into a tirade and this is just my two cents worth but:

Never mind that Brits like preacher William Wilberforce and John Wesley led the movement to abolish slavery and end the slave trade.

Than being the case, it was the Brits than brought slaves to the US and it was the US that fought a war to free them.

freedom-fighters such as Ghandi: He's a piece of work in himself siding with Hitler, that other freedom-fighter.

Britain's own Judeo-Christian political principles as the basis for India's independence and peaceful transition to democracy.

Britain giving back independence to India from whom they took it in the first place and then arbitrarily drew a line and said: Hindu's here and Muslims up there.

The Brits ended slavery before America did and didn't fight a bloody war to do so. That's the point. Abolitionists like Frederick Douglas praised Britain and called for U.S. to follow suit in published essays and speeches like "What to the slave is the 4th of July?" (1852)

Curry is a national dish in the U.K. There are British-Indians, British-Pakistanis, and British-Africans aplenty who have found their place and integrated successfully into British society throughout the decades. And if they don't live there, then happily exchange, study, trade, and do business with England and/or retain their "Commonwealth" status.

Oh and there's a half-black Princess now too. But Russian state TV did not air the Royal Wedding because it's "propaganda."

Meanwhile, what does Russia have to show for its Soviet legacy and satellite states. Let's see: NORTH KOREA for one. Kim Il Sung was handpicked by Stalin. - Cuba, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Syria, to name a FEW...

It's one thing if an Indian/African historian were recounting Britain's former sins, but it'a a whole other when it is a 1) spokesman for former KGB officer Putin, 2) in a country nostalgic for USSR's glory, 3) where Stalin is considered by many to be a hero-victor, and 4) Lenin's body still lies in open display in Red Square.