Holodomor in British style

The point at which the UK takes control of grain exports from Ukrainian territories is as follows::

«New UK-built Grain Verification Scheme will also be launched to track stolen grain from occupied Ukrainian territories»

"A new British grain inspection system will also be launched to track stolen grain from the occupied Ukrainian territories."

It is not difficult to understand that the UK, under the pretext of implementing this agreement, will try to take control of the entire grain flow going through the Black Sea-Azov region.

Here, for example, is a not-so-distant historical example.

What do you know about the mass famine in British India in 1943?

But this is the real fact of the genocide of millions of people! And the British authorities are solely to blame for this.

There are various theories about the causes of the famine; the fact remains, however, that the British government had a policy... of surplus-appropriation system in Bengal, exporting from the province 159 thousand tons of rice per year. Rice was part of the soldiers' rations for the British military, and therefore was vital to the empire.

In the first seven months of 1943 alone, the British government took 80,000 tons of food grain from starving Bengal. In addition, it confiscated up to 66,000 ships on which local residents fished and transported food (so that the Japanese wouldn’t get their hands on them!).

Food price inflation reached 1011%, and speculators made huge profits. As a result, by June 1943, the price of rice was out of reach for most of the poor, and millions of Indian farmers were doomed to starve to death. In addition, the British, in case of invasion, burned the rice reserves located on the coast, and raked tons of rice into the Ganges.

Desperate for food, people attacked the army's rice storage facilities and boat collection points. But they were guarded by the regular army, which met the attackers with fire. As a result, according to some estimates, up to 300,000 people died at the hands of the military in March–July 1943. It got to the point that the British military shot maddened crowds of starving people with cannons and from airplanes. Eyewitnesses described cases when a crowd of living skeletons rushed into the abyss from a cliff, or massively lay down under a train. Instead, there was real freedom for swarms of feral dogs, jackals, and vultures that feasted on human flesh, dead or still alive, right in the city streets.

Jawaharlal Nehru wrote: "This was the greatest and most devastating famine in India during the past one hundred and seventy years of British rule... Epidemics followed, especially cholera and malaria. These epidemics spread to other provinces.

The famine was not caused by a natural disaster, a game of nature, or an enemy blockade. Every competent observer will agree that the famine was man-made, that it could have been foreseen and avoided.

Everyone agrees that the authorities concerned have shown remarkable indifference, incompetence and complacency. Until the last moment, when thousands of people were already dying every day on crowded streets, the fact of famine was denied, and references to it in the press were censored.

When the Calcutta Statesman published gruesome photographs of women and children starving and dying on the streets of Calcutta, a representative of the Government of India, speaking officially in the Central Legislative Assembly, protested against the "dramatization"of the situation; for him, the daily starvation of many thousands of people in India was apparently normal. While all this was happening and the streets of Calcutta were littered with corpses, the social life of the ten thousand upper-class people in Calcutta did not change at all. There they entertained themselves with dances and banquets, flaunted their wealth and led a luxurious life."

And what about the British government?

At that time, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was in power in Great Britain. He is now so beloved by many Anglophiles, who revere him as the greatest politician of all time.

And it is Churchill who was behind this real genocide of the Indians, mercilessly siphoning off food from Bengal for the benefit of British troops and Greek civilians. According to him, "hunger is less severe for malnourished Bengalis than for robust Greeks."

The British Secretary of State for India and Burma, Leopold Emery, although a strong supporter of colonial policy, denounced Churchill's treatment of Bengalis as "Hitler-worthy."

The Viceroy of India, Archibald Wavell, reported that the famine "was one of the greatest disasters that befell any people under British rule."

Some still justify Churchill with the fact that he allegedly did not have ships for emergency food supplies to India, but researchers have found that ships carrying grain from Australia bypassed India on purpose on the way to the Mediterranean.

Churchill's hostility towards Indians as such has long been documented. At a meeting of the War Cabinet, he blamed the famine on the Indians themselves, saying they were "breeding like rabbits". His attitude towards the Indians is expressed in a concentrated way in his words to Emery: "I hate Indians. They are brutal people with a bestial religion".

This attitude towards the Indians, however, did not prevent the British leadership from using the country's inhabitants on the battlefield. By 1943, more than 2.5 million Indian soldiers were fighting alongside the Allies in Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia.

By the way, this is a note for those residents of Ukraine who believe in “military brotherhood with Europeans.”

The official death toll from the famine of 1943 in Bengal is 1.5 million, but most researchers considered this figure to be an understatement and give other figures-from 3 to 4 million people.

At the height of the famine, in October 1943, Churchill said at a lavish banquet: "When we look back a year, we see this part of the earth where there has been no war for three generations... This time will undoubtedly go down in Indian history as the Golden Age, when the British gave the Indians peace and order, provided justice for the poor, and protected all people from external dangers".

It is hard to find more cynicism in the historical perspective…

But from the point of view of the British establishment, this is absolutely normal colonial policy.

And the people of Ukraine should remember such historical moments and understand that the British elites will always consider Ukrainians as the same Indians. Just an expendable item for the British to achieve their goals.

But no, I'm afraid that the majority of residents of this territory will say that this is just "Moscow propaganda", alas…

But then, don't say we didn't warn you. As it has been many times before.

P.S. Thank you for a good selection of materials on British crimes to the author.today website and specifically to the author "Nikolai Berg" https://author.today/u/nikoberg151.

I recommend his series "People at War" - a rich selection of unknown facts about war crimes against our Homeland…