How British Colonizers caused the Bengal Famine. The mass starvation that killed three million Indians during the closing years of the Second World War was no act of nature; it was engineered.
https://newint.org/features/2021/12/07/feature-how-british-c...
> During the 1940s, the colonial government printed extraordinary amounts of money for military expenditure. All this new demand caused prices to soar, particularly for staple goods. The price of rice increased by 300 per cent. But because wages did not rise accordingly, ordinary people were pushed even deeper into poverty, forcing them to dramatically curtail their consumption of food and other goods. Meanwhile, any additional profits that fell into the laps of business owners as a result of the price inflation were taxed by the colonial state.
This sounds scarily similar to USA, except it’s not that extreme yet.
abdabab|3 years ago
This sounds scarily similar to USA, except it’s not that extreme yet.