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To: minus_273

Your ignorance is mindboggling. India was a slave of the British empire when the WW2 was happening. Hardly in a position to decide which country to ally with. And Subhash Chandra Bose was a freedom fighter with a single point agenda - to free India from British rule. To Indians who were enslaved by the British - the only enemy , the only fascists were the Brits. Any help to fight the Brits - whether it was from Roosevelt's US or Hitler's Germany was welcome. To call a great Indian freedom fighter like Subhash Chandra Bose - who is more loved and admired in India than even Gandhi - a nazi war criminal is absurd. He was just an Indian freedom fighter.


2 posted on 07/23/2005 10:41:43 PM PDT by strider123 (Ha! I hate Pakis..)
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To: strider123
India was a slave of the British empire ...

And another thing - The above quote is where you start wrong. It was not a "slave nation" in any sense of the word. It was administered as a client nation, yes - but it was not even close to being a "slave".

Not saying that it was all wine and roses, but India did enjoy massive infrastructure improvements, roads, railways, schools, wells, docks, aquaducts, hospitals, universities - all from being a member/client nation of the British Empire. There was also LIMITED self rule - yes, it was not sovereign. Yes, no American would ever bear anything close to that status for one single second on one single square inch of America. Yes, you were not allowed to be neutral in WWII - but no decent human being WAS neutral.

India suffered less than Belgium, or France, or Holland. Far, far less by several orders of magnitude than Poland. The "suffering" of the Indian people under the administration of the British was a single teardrop compared to the ocean of death, murder, industrialized starvation, and clouds of stinking smoke from the burning of murdered bodies that clouded the skies of Europe for a generation.

Don't ever try to say that India suffered as much under the Brits as ANYONE did under the Nazis or the Stalinists - that comparison is obscene.

10 posted on 07/23/2005 11:29:28 PM PDT by Republicanus_Tyrannus
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To: strider123
Well, he was a freedom fighter with some messed up ideas. He was trying to create an India that was a socialist authotitarian state. Although he ultimately became disillusioned with Hitler, his cozying up to him is hardy a credit to Bose. He also spent time with the Soviets, and other unwholesome types.

On another note, I heard his radio is great.

21 posted on 07/24/2005 12:54:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: strider123

Of course, India played footsie with the soviets throughout
the cold war.

Hitler may well have done some good things for Germany.
His mistake, of course, was starting a war which he couldn't
win.


24 posted on 07/24/2005 1:07:16 AM PDT by RWCon
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To: strider123

Gee, its too bad the Japs didn't conquer India. Then the Indians could learn what a soft touch the Brits were...


32 posted on 07/24/2005 12:48:12 PM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
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