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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] The British Empire repeatedly let its colonies starve simply because food could be sold for a profit somewhere else.

They've done that in so many places.

Sure, not each colony every single time, but that just makes it clear they always had a choice and chose to let people starve.

If you own 1/3 of the world, you really can't convince me you don't have the resources, anyway.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] The Victims of Communisms Memorial Foundation? It's established and funded by the US government, though nominally independent, the the express and entirely open purpose of telling the world how evil, violent and oppressive communists are. It's a pure propaganda organisation, barely even pretends otherwise. And yes, it claims 100 million victims killed by communism - but that is mostly from counting deaths from every famine in a nominally communist country.

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Sadly, we Brits have a LOT to answer for historically! Our imperial use of systematic violence was no different from that used by our rivals. We were just better at hiding it. [see Elkins C., “Legacy of Violence: a history of the British Empire”]

Eg we pioneered concentration camps & mass starvation (Boer War); mass murder of civilians (India, Palestine, Ireland, Kenya); reprisal killings (Ireland); torture (Ireland, Kenya); rape, & castration (Kenya);