a Twitter thread from @SpiritofLenin

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75 yrs ago the partition of India took place which led to the deaths of 1 million people and the displacement of 17 million.

Between 1765-1938 Britain stole £45 thrillion from India. The word "loot" itself entered the English language from the Hindustani word meaning 'to rob.'

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14 major famines occurred in India under British colonial rule. Conservative estimates put the death toll at 50,000,000. The latest being in Bengal in 1943 which claimed 3 million lives.

This is what Britain's fav White Supremacist Winston Churchill said about the famine:

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Churchill had intentionally diverted food supplies from starving families while the Bengal Famine was taking place and stopped others from trying to solve the crisis these actions led to the deaths of 3 million people.

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In Apr 1919 the Jallianwala Bagh massacre was carried out. British forces fired on the crowd for over ten minutes. Up to 1000 or more were ki!!ed

1,650 rounds of live ammunition were fired in to the crowd. Exits from the gathering place were guarded to stop people leaving.

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The "Crawling Order" where the British made Indians crawl on all fours to go from one end of the street to the other in Amritsar was who enforced by Colonel Dyer, who ordered the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

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Despite these long litany of atrocities 59% of Brits suveryed as part of a YouGov poll said that the empire is something to be proud of and only 19% think that it is something to be ashamed of.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2014/07/26/britain-proud-its-empire

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And in 2002 in a nationwide poll brits voted Churchill as the "greatest brit of all time"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/nov/25/bbc.artsandhumanities

Runners up included Cromwell & Elizabeth I

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If you want to understand or develop your understanding in just how bloodstained rapacious and destructive the British Empire as well I recommend reading The Blood Never Dried by John Newsinger

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https://twitter.com/SpiritofLenin/status/1559167342923452416?t=8t2GAdEV4Poql4xCGAh0bA&s=19

Also keep in mind the £45 trillion stolen from India is a conservative estimate. It does not include debts placed on South Asia or the environmental cost of Britain's aggressive deforestation for timber.

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Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin)

75 yrs ago the partition of India took place which led to the deaths of 1 million people and the displacement of 17 million.

Between 1765-1938 Britain stole £45 thrillion from India. The word "loot" itself entered the English language from the Hindustani word meaning 'to rob.'

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