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Turtler -2 points ago +1 / -3

His record on India is remarkable for being against murder. He voted to censure Dyer for Armitsar.

http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/churchill/amritsar.htm

And when the worst of all worlds hit Bengal in the form of outdated (and abusive) British colonial food infrastructure already taxed by the war getting KO'd by Japanese occupation, a monsoon, and a crop blight Churchill worked like a bear to try and feed the Bengalis, even when hampered by incompetent British bureaucracy on the scene and the Japanese sinking dozens of ships in the Indian Ocean.

https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/did-churchill-cause-the-bengal-famine/

It's ironic that those who want to try and elevate him to the levels of a Hitler or Stalin have to rely on mostly secondhand racial words along with propaganda by Fascist shills like Bose and co (who were guilty of helping to perpetuate the sister-famine in Japanese occupied Burma, which almost never gets mentioned when talking about the Bengal Famine of '43-44).