To: Republicanus_Tyrannus
I agree with your overall point, but there were people deliberately starved by Britain. Not as many as Stalin, or there own people, but...
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07/24/2005 12:58:14 AM PDT by
nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
I haven't seen any deliberate famines recorded that were ordered by the British government. I have indeed seen where actions of the Brits in times long ago exacerbated an existing or developing famine - yes, and in Ireland and India too. But never one ORDERED to begin by a government of the UK. Stalin's Ukrainian famine was created whole cloth to kill. The famines of the British Empire were just the result of bad decisions or stupid actions that were not changed because of a secondary reason - they were not lengthened specifically to kill people as Stalin did.
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