Self-proclaimed historian Darryl Cooper claimed Winston Churchill ‘was the villain of Second World War’ and that millions of people ‘ended up dead’ in Nazi concentration camps
  • Wrench@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    And for scale

    According to a 1941 census, the population of India was 388,997,955. This was an increase of over 50 million from the previous census.

    In 1943, India was also experiencing the Bengal famine, which killed an estimated 2.1–3 million people.

    70,000 tons, distributed over 389m people, is 0.0003598972 pounds of food were taken away from each Indian person, over a 6-7 month period.

    Riiiiight.