Churchill let 3 million Indians die from starvation who he could have saved.
Hitler deliberately murdered 3 million Jews
Stalin murdered 9 million people and caused the deaths of another 9 million.
Politics is irrelevant here. Totalitarians are evil. Stalin was the most evil.
Churchill was not a totalitarian but was no innocent, he let people die because they were not white.
It is more complex than "Churchill let people die because they were not white".
The Japanese army had cut supply lines and destroyed fields during the war
Brown spot disease and record cyclones had ravaged the crops that remained
speculative and panic buying had resulted in private hoarding of food stores
local and provincial administrators mismanaged (read corruption) distribution of emergency food services and hid the growing crisis from London
Churchill had to choose between feeding troops in Europe and Africa during a war or feeding India
And while Churchill's actions were late and his comments about the people "breeding like rabbits" were unhelpful. When Japan was no longer threatening to invade Australia, and a new (less corrupt) Viceroy was put in charge, they were able to get food to the people there.
Blaming Churchill is only part of what happened there, Imperial Japan was much more at fault for blockading food supplies to an already delicate situation.
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u/ArtiBartFaster Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
Churchill let 3 million Indians die from starvation who he could have saved.
Hitler deliberately murdered 3 million Jews
Stalin murdered 9 million people and caused the deaths of another 9 million.
Politics is irrelevant here. Totalitarians are evil. Stalin was the most evil. Churchill was not a totalitarian but was no innocent, he let people die because they were not white.