Churchill's legacy still painful for Indians - BBC News

Over the past month a number of statues of past leaders have been defaced around the world, during protests that were part of the Black Lives Matter movement.
They’ve triggered debate over the UK’s colonial history.
In the latest in our series of reports on the legacy of the British Empire, Yogita Limaye reports from India, one of the UK’s former colonies about how former British prime minister Winston Churchill is viewed by people there, particularly in relation to a deadly famine that occurred in the country during the second world war.
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[@11komalsharma91]

They forced farmers to produce cash crops instead of food, and when there was no food they shipped whatever was left to England, as reserves !!

[@Ev0Apex]

They even sent a mining team down there to take gold, silver and other materials.

[@vicar4236]

Thats called colonialism and it wasnt started by churchill but no one cares about that fact

[@Ev0Apex]

@@vicar4236 Um yeah, Churchill colonised parts of India... So yeah, that made him powerful as the Prime Minister.

[@vicar4236]

@@Ev0Apex He never colonized India.. As a matter of fact the only land he gained for the UK was only taken from the Axis.

[@Ev0Apex]

​@@vicar4236 The British Empire colonized India, under Churchill and the House of Lords demands and orders.

[@afsanakhan7071]

2.5 million Indians fought for British in WW2 And in return, we got communal divide, civil war, famine and partition. Yes it is true, British has left their heritage of divide and rule on us.

[@moiseshuerta3984]

Why did the Indians.even fight at all for Britain?

[@FirstLast-lo3eo]

@@moiseshuerta3984 The British forcefully dragged us into both World Wars.

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@FirstLast-lo3eo Tell us how India was “forced” into the wars. ….

[@afsanakhan7071]

@@mauricebuckmaster9368 read history… many Indian troops who worked for Britishers gave up their arm and rebelled.

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@afsanakhan7071 I have read history, thanks. So please just answer the question. …

[@yac161]

Not just Indians, Bangladeshis too, Bengal forms part of modern day India and Bangladesh, get it right BBC..

[@alexanderchan76]

Bangladesh and Pakistan were a part of India at the time.

[@yac161]

@@alexanderchan76 well done clever clogs

[@efto]

@James Bryan IRELAND IS NOT PART OF THE UK

[@yac161]

@King James Is it not possible to like something whilst criticising an aspect of it? Or is that concept beyond the comprehension of your small mind? The way you pose your question tells me you are: 1. A kid or 2. Left school with no formal education. The likes of you have formed the peasantry of your country for generations. Whilst the ruling class has and will continue to treat you like trash, laughing as you run around, drunk and screaming 'rule Britannia'.

[@xavierthomas5923]

@James Bryan Your ignorance baffles me. Wait it wasn't your family, children, parents, friends, loved ones who died starving to an extent where their bones nearly pierced their skins. You weren't tempted to eat the dead or stuff your mouth with sand. Wait but it doesn't matter right because they were Indians ?

[@ieatmauriceforbreakfast]

"The sun never set on the British Empire because even God couldn't trust the English in the dark" -Kwame Nkrumah

[@vatsal7640]

Or cause the god is sn Englishman

[@udaisingh44]

​@@vatsal7640 because Christian Christianity bullshit 🤣

[@SaketKumar-xz5eu]

​@@vatsal7640 God who? Rishi Sunak 😂

[@vatsal7640]

@@SaketKumar-xz5eu lmao 🤣🤣 No , that two faced doodle can't be a god.

[@SaketKumar-xz5eu]

@@vatsal7640 He is god for the english people 😂.

[@JajaborMusic]

Wow, never expected these things from BBC. What happened, sun rose from west that day ?

[@ayushguruswamy6383]

Yoo this comment is mad🤣🤣

[@nallaguntlavamshi7098]

I laughed like a dog reading this😂😂

[@JajaborMusic]

​@@NG-dc2pk 1.) What about british starting Caste system in india to divinde hindus ? Caste system wasn't existed before brits came, not even during mughal time. and this caste system is still poisoning indian society from inside. 2.) What about jallianwala bagh massacre? 3.) what about diving the country in two? Those land border issue on which all neighbouring countries hasn't been resolved yet? 4.) What about millliions of refugees bringing into India, specaily NE india, which led to minority crisis there ? 5.) What about forced conversions and killing Hindus in Goa, South India, NE states, Tribals ? 6.) What about stealing $45 trillion from India ? 7.) What about all stolen artifacts by which the entire british museum is filled ? 8.) What about destroying local industries ? Farm, Agriculture, SIlk, cotton, ship building, ? 9.) What about From Biggest Economy at the time they entered to the one of the poorest at the time they leave ? 10.) What about destroying Indian education system with spiritual learning to some colonial rot learning system ? 11.) What about thousands of indian soldiers died in both world wars, but not a single war memorial for them? Brits built war memorial for animals died in both the wars, but not for indians.

[@surajmalla2099]

This is sun rose from the EAST.

[@sharadjain2463]

At the end of the video BBC talked in favour of Churchill

[@maartenderooij2897]

This is the side of British History they do not teach in British schools, they only talk about things they did well or where they lost a lot of lives. So much is left out of History lessons because it seems too dark, unfortunately, that is the truth of the world, it was a dark and horrible place and we sugarcoat it because people are scared to accept the truth.

[@AlanWattResistance]

We never get taught about the evils of communism.

[@Rick_Sanchez_G420]

@@AlanWattResistance or about Nelson Mandela being a terrorist.

[@soundbite290]

We certainly never get taught the evils of the Japanese empire. China's history or Islamic invasions. If anything Britian is more critical of it's own history, than any other country is of theirs. Freedom of expression in Britian, makes it easy for others to criticize, but not their own countries whereby any criticism of the government, past and present, is only according to a government sanctioned narrative.

[@Rick_Sanchez_G420]

@@soundbite290 they crammed POWs in air raid shelters, poured petrol over them and then set them alight. Any that tried escaping were shot. They dont teach you about that at school. *edit* - I'm talking about Japan during WWII

[@dnrspdr03canadian95]

You do realise that many faminies happened in India that did 3x more damage than the Bengal famine that the British government isn't responsible for. Your only shitting on Churchill because he was racist and is praised by many British citisens, stop acting like a historian just because you saw a 6 minute video and at best might have done a little bit of research.

[@wejie]

Sanitized history is what our text books teach.

[@Tjmce]

Exactly in Ireland 🇮🇪 we are thought that there was a famine. But it was GENOGIDE

[@abigailcoelho3799]

History textbooks are very ethnocentric

[@yonblek4542]

In 100 years I want our children to read textbooks that say more than, Slavery is bad..

[@felixzayedovic7184]

Actually class 12 Indian Economics book says that the Famine was due to the biased policies of the British Raj.

[@Sanjay-ub7eq]

@@felixzayedovic7184 they're british i think.

[@AmitRoy-zi5je]

Churchill and Hitler were Same. The difference is Churchill won ww2 and Hitler lost that war.

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

Utter garbage. See a psychiatrist. . . . .

[@akshatmisra767]

they hate the truth

[@Nick.Martin.]

@@akshatmisra767 I don’t think we hate the truth. As someone who lives in Britain, I know that the majority of us are not informed about what our ruling classes did in our name. We are basically ignorant of our true history. I agree, Churchill was responsible for not doing anything to help during the Bengal famine and, in my opinion, was criminally negligent. As an individual Englishman, I can only express my personal sorrow and shame. I hope that we as a nation are told in proper detail the truth and that we, through our monarch, apologises to India- and any nation we exploited and oppressed. You need to keep reminding us so we can wake up.

[@akshatmisra767]

@@Nick.Martin. thank you and I was exaggerating as well. it is not the masses fault that the rulers are exploiters and this goes for most countries including India, I wish peace for the world

[@Nick.Martin.]

@@akshatmisra767 You demonstrate why I admire India and its people. I wish you well.

[@SM-zm5xt]

A big hug to India, from Argentina. We also know the dark side of UK 🇦🇷❤🇮🇳

[@manishyadav-gr3dj]

They never teach the real history about what bad they did .. they're not even ashamed of it and never said sorry ... we'll never forgive them and never forget what they did ...my great grandfather and great grandmother was killed by them in 1941 ... I'll never forgive them. . because of them we became poor ..we were the richest in 18th century and became the poorest in 19th because of them ...but now we're again up without anyone we did by our own

[@SM-zm5xt]

@Gethinm Comparing it to what you guys did for almost 200 years is ridiculous At least, we don't consider ourselves "warriors of freedom" (as a nationalist compatriot of yours once told me) And many countries support our claim. I think we aren't so wrong......

[@SM-zm5xt]

@Gethinm You can't change what happened in 1833

[@SM-zm5xt]

@Gethinm Yeah, for some weeks

[@SM-zm5xt]

@sax I also think that Galtieri was very stupid, but not our claim

[@ahmedafb]

For millions in his homeland, a Hero. For billion people, he caused Indian Holocaust.

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

A billion deluded, mendacious fools, then. …..

[@adriangaming4853]

@@mauricebuckmaster9368 The world is a sick place, and you lead them in this.

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@adriangaming4853 And your reasoning is. . . . .? ….

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@adriangaming4853 No response, then. So - you're big on silly insults, just pretty lacking in substance. 😉

[@adriangaming4853]

@@mauricebuckmaster9368 Your uppermost comment answers this.

[@KtotheC]

As a Bengali originally from West Bengal, India, it was heartbreaking to find out about this famine and how four million of my people were starved to death. R.I.P. to all the victims from the UK.

[@gaurangtiwari1563]

@@yonboybigbezang8808 i love how Leopold of Belgium trolled chimpanzees 😂

[@gaurangtiwari1563]

@@Cecilia-ky3uw says someone whose country's currency has mao on it 😂

[@GoToMan]

@@Cecilia-ky3uw What incest have committed? An extremist like Nathuram killed him and we hung him just like Boothe who killed Ab. Lincoln

[@noobhagoo1771]

@@GoToMan but we never want to listen nathuram's side of story,why he killed gandhi. Be deluded. Always blame britishers. That's what you guys know.

[@mubarakolad1899]

@@gaurangtiwari1563 ofcourse devils trolling

[@samy55589]

I dont know why some cowards are still arguing in the comment section that this is not true

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

Arguing what is not true? I'm certainly not any sort of "coward". If you want a debate, then let's go. . . .

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

No comeback, then? Unsurprising. Fool. . . .

[@thewhitefang1213]

​@@mauricebuckmaster9368 let's see how long white people will last in Britain.

[@RohanUchiha-f2n]

Evil blood of bloody chirchill ​@@mauricebuckmaster9368

[@braddas212]

​@@mauricebuckmaster9368 what's there to debate about? A genocidal maniac who caused a man made femine and killed millions?

[@VINAYKUMAR-zr6nd]

Ideals are peaceful but history is violent -fury

[@waseemraza3669]

👌🏽👌🏽

[@QUARK00]

Fury movie dialogue

[@dgrdst5810]

@Teilo Turner are u Indian

[@leandrobaluyotjr5181]

History serves as a lesson for those living at present. But it should not be a cause for recrimination & vengeance. That's why people must live at present moment with awareness.Combined with knowledge,resolve and goodwill,history repeating itself can be avoided particularly those who are at the receiving end of a poor bargain! This is true to individuals and nation alike.Prople can not change the past but they can certainly change the course of the future for the better if they are conscious of the events of the present time .

[@comradecetacean1927]

@@leandrobaluyotjr5181 I think in this modern day not many civilized people would be that thirsty for blood and vengeance, a simple act of acknowledgement would be plenty, acknowledging the actions that were taken were wrong, but many people are too arrogant to admit that.

[@aaroncrilly2005]

Not only for Indians, but for the Irish as well

[@jx2729]

He betrayed Poland to Stalin too after they fought in Battle for Britain.

[@ladynori]

Richard R fuckin right????🤣

[@colinbenfield326]

And the Welsh miners

[@charliecatesby3346]

Ridiculous, yes the Irish were considered White in the 60's and 70's why? Becsuse they are demonstrably White....Why sepcify Irish if they could have stated "No coloureds"

[@josephrobinsdaniel1969]

@Nkosi Ndugumuzana Yes irish folks were also discriminated. UK had such an inferiority...

[@Ali-bu6lo]

I'm sick of people's inability to see how gray history is

[@ZahdShah]

What's your point

[@yash.kapoor]

couldn't agree more

[@danielmasters8145]

How gray is it? What shade of gray are you talking about?

[@propri684]

@@danielmasters8145 fifty

[@Ali-bu6lo]

@@ZahdShah my point is that Churchil has done many great things, standing against Hitler with such determination chief among them. My point is that nowadays in the west, the left (BLM, the Social Justice etc) and the far-right are seeing history with a broken black and white glass, vilifying or idolizing historical figures and distorting their legacy as hey please

[@ilmarahman6047]

BBC should mention the name of the artist. Zainul Abedin is a renown artist in Bangladesh. Widely recognized for capturing the Bengal Famine through his art. Because he was born in Mymensingh, Bangladesh his paintings are housed in a museum there. And let’s be honest, the infamous legacy of Churchill does not end at the famine, but also his contribution to the partition.

[@inspiringyou5642]

Absolutely true..But in my opinion the clock will turn to them very soon

[@bangla_matir_Chele]

Chitroprosad was also from Chittagong.. Both are Bangladeshi

[@gaeig]

Can you say Bengali instead of Hindu Bengali and Bangladeshi and all that stupid recently made up nonsense?

[@bibekdas7449]

​@@gaeig❤😊

[@28pbtkh23]

Churchill had nothing to do with the partition: he was not Prime Minister when that happened. Jinnah had more to do with partition than any British ruler. The Muslims he led did not want to live in a land with a Hindu majority.

[@srajit6814]

Winston Churchill was a ' Raicist ' and was deeply effected by raicism .

[@ajmalsafi13]

Churchil was father of Hitler.

[@reginald_1458]

Wow you should be a historian with that insight

[@ajmalsafi13]

@@reginald_1458 You don't need to be a historian to know what happened in your backyard.

[@reginald_1458]

@@ajmalsafi13 just seems like your reinforcing your own bias with that simplistic view

[@ajmalsafi13]

@@reginald_1458 Enlight us with your correct and unbiased view.

[@lemons20]

“Why isn’t Gandhi dead yet?” -Winston Churchill

[@lemons20]

When he was asked not to divert food supplies for the war.

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@lemons20 To which remark I attach no significance whatsoever.

[@sargunpreetsinghghumman5807]

@@mauricebuckmaster9368 good for you

[@niksur7113]

@You love KZbin too?? A lot of Indians wanted him dead

[@abhinavsrivastav8677]

@@niksur7113 what does that matter?

[@foundingtitan7]

I remember Shashi Tharoor's quoted lines in Oxford about this incident where Churchill answered his subordinates' requests about doing something by writing in the margins of the letters, "Why hasn't Gandhi died yet"! PATHETIC.

[@nmew6926]

Britain : Really we were so bad.... mmm... wait..... LETS TALK ABOUT CHINA. Problem instantly solved for Britain thanks to Mc Mahon

[@HarpreetSinghChauhan]

Yess bro I remember his speech . When I listened to it , I was left speechless 😐😭

[@nagratna793]

The party he belong been an sympathiser of British..never seen another hypocrite

[@Lifelong31Aug]

@@nagratna793 ahem..as opposed to the british shoe licker's party? 😏

[@erfanrules]

Well, I thought Indians were happy when gandhi died since the current indian govt appease the Naturam godse who killed the gandhi ? Isn't this correct ?

[@ngalahansel6066]

Wow, to see those two elderly men who lived through the starvation really touched me as someone from Cameroon 🇨🇲, a former British colony where British rule is also often whitewashed

[@universalsoldier811]

🇮🇳❤️🌍🇨🇲

[@Adriano993]

I'm so sorry for what I have never done 👌

[@universalsoldier811]

@@Adriano993 don't worry. You don't have to say sorry. We have big hearts. You are already forgiven because those rulers have already gone .

[@Assbeaterniggachad]

@@universalsoldier811 need some toilets?

[@KLawOPBR.]

@@Assbeaterniggachad we have heard enough shit from your mouth so we do need toilets 🙏

[@nomanatta4479]

Subjects like this make me thankful for every single day that passes uneventfully, with roof over my head and food in my belly.

[@francescapowell1538]

I can respect that.

[@aishariaz3524]

So as along as you are fine? That sounds very like the british people in the famine. How about helping those who are not?

[@kakalimukherjee3297]

Just a random fact, Baba means Dad in Bengali and Hindi

[@abrarmullan1]

Mainly for those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom to have it.

[@tiestokygoericprydz3963]

It was tough for everyone a century ago We are better now

[@siddiquealrafath6519]

Here in Bangladesh people often curse a shrewd criminal by calling him "british". This is not representative of the current british people but then again it would take quite a while to change this particular vocabulary to something else.

[@Riddhi_Brahma]

Same in West Bengal

[@siddiquealrafath6519]

@@Riddhi_Brahma we are of same blood and struggle..

[@Riddhi_Brahma]

@@siddiquealrafath6519 yes 👍

[@arpanmalakar11]

@@siddiquealrafath6519 hope we will reunite once again and thrash Britain.

[@kanekiken2002]

Keep it as it is.

[@preityb200]

Bengal famine pictures are really painful to watch......children were nothing but skeletons

[@omara.947]

It was caused because Burma fell to the Japanese who cut out supply to India as the resources were falling short for the Burmese people. Churchill tried to help out a bit but couldn’t do much as the uk was in the middle of war. There were mistakes made but it wasn’t cause Churchill did it intentionally. Btw I’m Indian and if it wasn’t for Churchill the world wouldn’t have been saved from nazis.

[@omara.947]

@A H because there is a whole lot of misinformation in this comment section. I see a lot of people going against people who should be seen as heroes. Besides, there are only two comments and two are responses to insults. Also, yes Churchill believed in racist things. Everyone in that time believed in racist things including Gandhi. We celebrate him not for his racism but him defeating the most racist man in history.

[@rohanshinde4327]

Churchill was responsible, yes. A simple search proves it. www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-churchill-policies-contributed-to-1943-bengal-famine-study

[@TheShepTV]

“Yea but at least they weren’t white children” - England

[@Magiktcup]

Omar A the MAN

[@Prinny05]

They starved the irish too they were horrible

[@vighneshm.s2381]

That's why Bengal is called nursery of Indian independence movement

[@alokbaluni8760]

@@paulbiring743 Not really. People view Bengalis as extremely rude and arrogant.

[@dgrdst5810]

Who says that

[@vighneshm.s2381]

@@paulbiring743 yes I know. But in kerela they were treated with respect and caring during lockdown But some of them makes mistakes and society will take only the negative

[@vighneshm.s2381]

@@dgrdst5810 independence movement started way before rest of India started. Because British defeated nawab of bengal in mid 18th century.

[@6g18]

@@alokbaluni8760 who the hell sees them as that

[@magnificentvillain3506]

I can’t believe the professor from Oxford used the word “unpleasant” to describe the famine situation in Bengal.

[@parthabanerjee1234]

Compared to a world war, a famine is indeed just unpleasant. But what the British did was not discrimination. It was extermination. Bengal was the epicenter of the freedom struggle of India. The Sepoy Mutiny got ignited in Bengal. Bengal was such a problem for the British throughout its colonial history in India that they partitioned it in 1905 and then they partitioned it again in 1947. It was Bose, a Bengali who sided with the Axis Power and created an army to kill British to liberate India. Bengal produced the best minds in literature and science and other faculties in India at that time. Weakening Bengal by exterminating Bengalis was necessary part of the British war effort as exterminating Jews was a necessary part of German war effort. The most non-violent method of genocide is famine.

[@Englishman_and_mountains]

Thata the British way to describe anything awful to be fair. We say that about our own suffering.

[@parthabanerjee1234]

@@Englishman_and_mountains I am sure the British do not describe the Holocaust or the Holodomor as mere unpleasant. I am sure the British do call the London bombing by Luftwaffe as mere unpleasant either.

[@aminahussain8690]

@@parthabanerjee1234 Exactly.

[@Assbeaterniggachad]

You all indians are so soft Literally you've got problem in every little thing

[@arjunsinha212]

"History is written by winners. And winners lie"

[@billclinton3862]

Im not sure if Churchill fought India directly

[@igocrazywithrage834]

Im offended -A Napolean lover

[@incrusio801]

@@billclinton3862 yeah but he indirectly was responsible for the deaths of millions in india, you don't need to fight someone to kill them, just take all their supplies and make them starve to death

[@billclinton3862]

@@incrusio801 You honestly think churchill and his government actively wanted to kill indians...?

[@ageniuscolonum6515]

all of british at that time was racist and dont care about their colony what do you expect

[@stayfocused6848]

Joke of the Century, Britishers helped Indians get richer and helped Indian economy rise. 😂😂😂 Source - Comedian Doggy Laurice the 💨

[@jadephoenix222]

😂😂😂

[@MainakMondal-wz8cx]

No one is saying that

[@mr.nobodyknows6447]

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it!" Winston Churchill

[@abhinavsrivastav8677]

Megalomaniac*

[@intheplums]

Yeah and he didn't do anything wrong. It's like hating someone because they didn't do something to help a charity.

[@diya1113]

It wont indians hate u churchill

[@traiver6685]

@@diya1113 yes we do

[@averyj5446]

@@diya1113 Africans are right behind you too

[@sanket.solanke]

"We can blame him for prioritising White lives over South Asian lives" Imagine if a thief breaks into your house and takes away everything you own, now you don't have anything to feed your family, all you can do is watch your family starve to death. But the thief isn't held responsible. Instead he is hailed as a saviour by his people, he was just prioritising his family's lives over yours... That's messed up. Edit: some of you are thinking I'm justifying British atrocities in India in this comment. Please watch the full video first, I was criticising people who tried to justify stealing essential supplies from India and justifying by saying it was necessary just like thieves do.

[@kekbin1697]

So every empire around the world?

[@srinjoykumarmitra1698]

@@kekbin1697 Not every such person from history is celebrated as a hero of the modern world.

[@ashutoshsharmash]

@@kekbin1697 Not every Empire. And certainly not at the scale at which it was done by traditionally the Whites.

[@barundon7673]

He has no right to take the food from my home which is hard earned by me

[@rhythmkhandelwal2940]

Are you dumb? He has no right to steal at all the theif should work and earn his money instead of stealing others idiot. People like you who justify the british actions are much more worse than the empire

[@Sam-vx8ty]

Shashi Tharoor Joined the Conversation 😂

[@doorwillems3787]

Lol

[@Riddhi_Brahma]

yes lol

[@shambajitneogi1091]

My Grandfather used to tell me stories of that time...He said that there used to be horn for some plane and at that time they have to leave whatever they are doing and go inside the house....He also said that whatever crops he grew.. Most of them were taken and he used to exchange some of it for my father,uncles and aunt......He also said we must never judge the future based on past but must always remember it not to do the same mistakes

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

Taken by who? . . .

[@Babumoshai..]

​@@mauricebuckmaster9368 taken by the British Indian government.

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@Babumoshai.. And your evidence is. . . . ? . . .

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@Babumoshai.. And your supporting evidence is . . . .? . . . . .

[@sookie4195]

I love that. Never judge the future by the past. The United States blacks could learn a thing or two there.

[@dazzaMusic]

Ironically everyone in British culture learns about Winston Churchill but it’s only the good bits and not things like this.

[@ananthu8534]

For Brits & Americans : they defeated the Nazi regime . For the rest of the World : One Monster defeated another monster

[@CoolDude-jp1kj]

@@ananthu8534 Rest of the world needs to move on and get a grip

[@holckylondon]

@@CoolDude-jp1kj meh, let's be mature about this. We should probably learn about this in schools. On one hand, Churchill led the UK success in the war. On the other hand, he had a major part in the famine described in this video. People can judge for themselves how to feel about him based on those facts (and others).

[@ronaldwilsonreagan7727]

@@holckylondon I still like Sir Winston Churchill

[@ahhh6328]

In my school in Scotland, we learned briefly about it. Unfortunately not in history class but rather RME (religious & moral education.) Maybe it is because i am Scottish but i cannot fathom why Churchill is idolized, he was even voted out after the war.

[@adammacdomhnail2014]

2:01 This has Ireland written all over. Both India and Ireland share a very similar history together.

[@naman6491]

I bet that we hates Curchill most then Irish

[@vineet3269]

Very true.

[@abhaymanoj3784]

fuck of do not compare india to ireland

[@nerdybacc]

@@abhaymanoj3784 thye both faced devastating famines, they were both partitioned, so yes. He will compare ireland to india, and you have no say in that

[@billclinton3862]

@@nerdybacc Ireland partitioned itself

[@farhankhattak4327]

At least give credit to BBC showing reality of their country

[@tofro9340]

Not complete truth cause if it had been so... British people would have suffocated from their own blood

[@sharadjain2463]

At the end of video saved their hero

[@Top-notch_beauty]

Distorted, it was even more worse.

[@Rupesh_Singh_108]

Bas 1 carore death ke jagah 30 lakh bataya

[@61.pranamyajoshi23]

Nah they are sugarcoating him at the end

[@hithere9755]

Till the tenth standard I learnt History just to pass exams. It's now that I have realized after watching various documentaries, interviews, podcasts, etc etc that it's clearly something else.

[@samjones6046]

Australia sent tonnes of wheat on ships specifically for the Bengal Famine which Churchill had diverted. Remember Australia did this in the height of WW2 , when they had their hands full with Japan. Read up on the Madras Famine and The Great Bengal Famine of 1770 , British museums have memoirs of British Officers talking about how evil the Government was and how they were forcing the people to cannibalise their own. There was even a famine where my state was in the 1940s. Kerala is a state that's luckily been blessed with rains and fertile soil .It was a primary cause for why "soldiers" started signing up for the war cause. Kuttanad , now a very famous tourist attraction had a very high casualty rate for soldiers who signed up from there. 650+ died in this war cause and our now buried somewhere in Burma , Europe ,North Africa or the Pacific Islands. Our forefathers fought for a people that took everything from us and they are barely a footnote in history.

[@tomweldon7608]

Queen Victoria aka the famine queen stopped food being sent to Ireland in the great hunger of 1847 by the ottomans because she didn't want them to look more generous than her

[@bhanumanhas175]

History is more complex than that. The Indian soldier didn't fight as much for the British Empire as he fought for his officers and to uphold the good name of his regiment. Even today the hallmark of a good officer in Indian Army is that 'An officer knows his men better than their mothers do and cares even more'. Such honourable traditions were developed by British Indian Army and have been wisely preserved and nurtured by the contemporary Indian Army. That's why Indian Army Infantry and old Armoured Regiments are among the very best in the world

[@bhavyasharma3224]

If you are Australian , i would Like To thankyou 🙏🙏💜

[@valiyapurakkalNarayanankutty]

Hmmm ...... .....somebody's watched "Bhayanakam".

[@samjones6046]

@@valiyapurakkalNarayanankutty athanne

[@nayan7398]

This shows what people want to hear. When Mahatma Gandhi was called racist everyone believed and criticized him, but when the true colors of a white person is shown, it's vastly ignored.

[@capybara_izz_my_spirit_animal]

Wdym believed? He was racist, or because of his skin color you're gonna ignore

[@citizencairn5230]

Nonsense

[@patrickcollins8048]

This comment doesn’t make sense; I’ve never heard western media call Gandhi a racist, but it has been calling Churchill racist hundreds of times in the past year alone

[@nont18411]

@@patrickcollins8048 Watch Knowing Better. He made a video about how Gandhi was so evil while absolving Columbus.

[@patrickcollins8048]

@@nont18411 ok 👍

[@julten6969]

You know India is not alone, in Germany Winston Churchill isn’t that appreciated either

[@wolfsbane2.0]

Churchill was the most brutal tyrant. I hate him the most. More then the Hitler.

[@Anime_strikes13]

@@wolfsbane2.0 true

[@notahuman-r4j]

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, an Indian freedom fighter even shook hands with Adolf Hitler

[@hazelpastinionie]

@@notahuman-r4j yes cause to fight for freedom from this fat English man

[@mlg_bob_ross8185]

no shit

[@jayd1426]

Just a thought. I want you to teach an unbiased history of Winston Churchill. Teach what were the heroic things he did as leader of Britain during World War II. But make sure you also teach the dark side of Churchill, such as what you just saw in this clip. But educate people equally on both matters, without any bias.

[@_o..o_1871]

Jay Deshpande Waiting for the day the whole world will do that during the history classes. But then some people wouldn’t be able to manipulate us so well..🙃

[@maximyles]

I completely agree, not only on Churchill but everything

[@marchaaaant]

Kevin Burrow You have the Russians to thank for that

[@jayd1426]

Kevin Burrow that is a very good point that can be made in explaining why he is a hero. However, I think that it is quite easy for one to say that this had outweighed the bad when that person wasn’t on the receiving end of the policies of Winston Churchill and the government at the time. I’m not saying that he shouldn’t be painted as a hero. What I’m saying is that you should take facts from both sides of history into account. It’s often something that hasn’t been done in schools, especially in the U.K., and it’s certainly worth mending. Just my thoughts

[@adewight5667]

@Kevin Burrow It's the BBC, what do you expect?

[@masudrujel774]

RIP my ancestors. Bengali from UK.

[@jay-zs9se]

@Ford Prefect haha we go to other country to gain knowledge or to earn not to invade loot and kill people we were forces to go to other place cause the British made our country economic conditions worst don't worry my friend we forgive but never forget

[@joba4848]

@jay nalawade So, by your definition, it is only the British who have ever invaded to steal and conquer. In your words (and I paraphrase), ‘we travelled to learn’. Didn’t the Maratha Empire persecute their own people? They launched six invasions of Bengal and invade Afghanistan. How about the Mughal Empire who sustained their empire by military conquest. Didn’t they also trade heavily with Europeans thus making their Empire larger and richer. Before them, didn’t the Delhi Sultanate persecute and murder across their Empire. And if we move away from the Indian sub-continent, how about all the various Chinese dynasties, the Mongol empire which stretched from Central Europe, across the Indian sub-continent and East to Japan. The Japanese invasions of China and Korea. The Ancient Egyptian Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Spanish in South and Central America, the French in Vietnam, the Germans and the Belgium’s in parts of Africa, the Dutch in Indonesia, the Romans, the Saxons and the Vikings invasions of Britain and many other places. The Moors invasions of Southern Europe, the tribal wars across Western Africa, which supplied most of the salves for the transatlantic slavery trade, the Russian empire etc etc etc. There has been hundreds of Empires across the globe. All did terrible things to gain control and maintain power. Many also did great things as well. Don’t try and paint the British as the only race to have persecuted others. As for slavery, it has existed since the beginning of civilization. Instead of spouting your ignorant nonsense and threats, why don’t you concentrate on improving modern India. How about tackling the rape epidemic sweeping the nation, or the Caste systems that protects the rapists. Just for starters. Or maybe recognize the British for some of the good they have done. For example the 20%+ of the world’s inventions and discoveries that the British are responsible for. The millions of lives saved by the discovery of penicillin by a Scottish scientist for example?

[@jay-zs9se]

@@bigsmoky4729 where did you come from now we never set foot on any of these land are you stoned suddenly you come up and say now whatever problem middle East is facing can also be blame on Britishers if you ready history dear friend just google it and then comment don't make baseless accusations like fox tv

[@jay-zs9se]

@@bigsmoky4729 yup you know your history as we know Hitler's, same people different faces every person knows the Britishers haven't you heard the sun never set on British Empire because even God didn't trust them in the dark read yours and I'll read mine but watch yours as its a lie Last comment DND

[@jay-zs9se]

@@bigsmoky4729 I'm speaking against British Empire 😅 see all my comments I'm from India and was speaking about how we had to go other places for work as our economic conditions were worsened by the British😅

[@mtsg3761]

Everyone: sees this title Me: *fears for the wellbeing of this comment section*

[@JoJo-rx6bi]

the bbc reminds me of the fact that child abuse was covered up in this country by mainstream media and politicians and it is still being covered up. This offends me. When will the bbc be removed??

[@Dudley-x2c]

Easy to remove, turn it off, chuck out TV. But I get your point !

[@SkySouthern273]

Miss Jungalista I don’t really see any good reason, the alternative would be channel 4, ITV and sky news, which are even worse

[@davidsmart8594]

@@SkySouthern273 What is worse than covering-up child abuse?

[@SkySouthern273]

David Smart Threats to our democracy

[@sharaththatikonda5386]

At they haven't apologise for it😂. That's the nature of colonial mindset.

[@apollocreed5391]

Who is 'they'?

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

And for what do “they” have to apologise? . . .

[@sharaththatikonda5386]

About horrific crimes British have done during colonial period. For example 1.Jalian wala bagh massacre 2. Bengal Famine 3. Looting wealth and Kohinoor etc.

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@sharaththatikonda5386 1. The Amritsar shooting incident was inexcusable, but in the grander scheme of things, it was a very minor one. Churchill himself condemned it unequivocally. 2. The Bengal Famine was largely the fault of Indians themselves. 3. There was no significant “looting” of India by the British.

[@apollocreed5391]

@@mauricebuckmaster9368 enjoy Buckmaster ☝🏻 I'll let you comment lol. He seems to think the jalian wala bagh, was approved by the British government , it wasn't it was some turnip general o dwyer acting alone, condemned in parliament. The bengal famine, of which we all know Churchill saved lives in the famine. And finally looting lol. That 46 trillion trash, and the diamond which the Indian government actually confirmed it was a gift. What they going to do if they did have that diamond returned. Dance in the streets from Mumbai to dehli and burn effigies in the streets of everything that is British lol. They'll still hate the British

[@arcane3464]

Indians in India see every British as next Churchill, this impression and anger may be never forgotten....🤷

[@rainthundercloud]

True

[@aurockscastillo5460]

Who cares? I

[@samuraijosh1595]

@@aurockscastillo5460 I care bro.

[@arnoldl8705]

Really? Lol whenever I see a video of a brit in India they get celebrity treatment even if there not a celebrity

[@sushmachaudhary7763]

@@arnoldl8705 they people misinterpret them as Russians or Americans lol

[@nowfelmahmud]

This is the half of the story. The situation was much worse in East Bengal as that was poorer half of the Bengal province.

[@dgrdst5810]

Explain?

[@preityb200]

I agree, east Bengal now Bangladesh has suffered also during famine and it has a very negative impact on lives of people for a long time . People forgot if ur grandparents are poor , ur parents are poor .....there is more chance that u will be poor too.

[@Grimeyhoob]

It’s not a competition you communal moron. Suffering of people is bad regardless of whether they are Muslims or non-Muslims. Clearly you are a Muslim fanatic who only cares about suffering of Muslims only.

[@carljohnson2194]

@@Grimeyhoob and you are hindutva fanatic linking it to religion. Why not say coz he’s pakistani and he hates india? But since you guys get islam you link his comment to Islam

[@Grimeyhoob]

@@carljohnson2194 I’m not even Indian or Hindu you moron. So your conclusion is completely nonsense. And Islam has a huge problem with not respecting or tolerating other religions - Islam cannot get along with any other religion. Look at their track record. They have problems with Jews, Hindus, Christians and Buddhists.

[@Physicalchemistry15151]

Not just Indians. Asians in general. Pakistani and Bangladeshis also faced oppression from Churchill

[@mathematicsfanatic832]

Duh that's India only

[@mythilirmythilir3208]

@@mathematicsfanatic832 Pakistan and Bangladesh originated from India

[@mathematicsfanatic832]

@@mythilirmythilir3208 thats politically .. else we are same

[@mythilirmythilir3208]

@@mathematicsfanatic832 Yeah.nepal Myanmar Bangladesh was also india BTW

[@Anime_strikes13]

@@mythilirmythilir3208 yes we r same before Brits came

[@Siddharth-zj5oz]

The truth is many indians do not know about him or know that he is behind such a genocide

[@apollocreed5391]

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[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

The truth is that there was no “genocide”, and that Churchill did the most to end the Famine. . . .

[@chaitanyak.n.4768]

These are part of history textbooks, so many Indians do know. And most of the younger generation does.

[@onidoremc9490]

So many are still illiterate or what?

[@abby-kq6lw]

People who defend Winston Churchill's seem to be saying that as long as you do enough good or save enough people or gain the love of some people,it's okay to forget the terrible things they've done

[@robeson1231]

@Stephen Leftfield watch the video you tit

[@fredbarker9201]

What about not ignoring the good or the bad and portraying both

[@Obi_boy]

There's a difference between choosing to feed soldiers over the citizens in bengal and putting people in gas Chambers

[@washimpatwary1446]

@@Obi_boy weren't there British concentration camps in South Africa?

[@srimanjha5112]

@Truth Seeker true

[@gopalkhillo8097]

*"What Hitler did to Jews,that Churchill did with Indians or even worse. So it's clear we Indians,will forever see Churchill the same,as Jews to Hitler."* btw thanks BBC,atleast finally you saw the truth of your own leader to the world without any biasness..Jai Hind 🇮🇳

[@onet728]

Just like south East Asia to Imperial Japan

[@dreamer2260]

Utterly outrageous. Churchill did not treat Indians as badly or worse than Hitler treated Jews. Churchill behaved despicably. But comparing callous lack of aid to a relentless, brutal, decade long campaign of sadism, slaughter, death camps, torture, human experimentation, full scale genocide, is totally wrong.

[@onet728]

@@dreamer2260 I see, a British defender

[@onet728]

@@dreamer2260 unfortunately for you, history will not see it that way.

[@dreamer2260]

@@onet728 Just being objective. And it's also important for people to understand the true horror and evil of Hitler's/the Nazis' ideology and actions. Full scale, murderous, industrial genocide, gassing, mass shooting, of millions upon millions of innocent men women and children, sadistic human experimentation on children, simply for their identity, whether Jewish, Gypsy/Roma, Polish, Russian, Gay, the disabled, and of leftist political opponents etc. That is a far worse crime than an act of even monstrous neglect like Churchill's. Deliberately withholding food aid, in large part due to Churchill's racism and disregard for Indians, was incredibly callous, horrific despicable, wrong. But the Holocaust was true evil on another level, absolute, savage sadism, cruelty, hatred, domination and barbarism, and should always remain in category of its own.

[@olieahern1318]

So churchill was no better than hitler

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

Utter nonsense. . . . .

[@Aftermath-News]

Keep Believing your Indian Fantasy. Britain does not ow India Anything especially that false claim of 45 trillion dollars. If you have any guts try to prove that Britain did loot 45 trillion dollars of that poor Asian country.

[@Thanosbreak]

@@Aftermath-News that’s why it is poor

[@Aftermath-News]

@@Thanosbreak ‘ThAts wHy iT iS pO0r’ Your country is poor cause of corruption by your politicians, not because of Britain. And they keep blaming Britain for everything instead of themselves and you Indians keep believing it.

[@Thanosbreak]

@@Aftermath-Newswell you killed millions of us and robbed us, we are now invading your country Soon the uk will be black and asian and not for whites

[@shanu7uday]

प्रशंसा करनी पड़ेगी आज के अंग्रेज़ों की! जो अतीत के सच बोलने का दम रखते हैं ❤

[@tomlopez8379]

When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.- President Jomo kenyatta

[@hughjass7072]

'A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad the good' -Stannis Baratheon

[@owainglyndwr8651]

The One True King

[@vineethdhuplae2432]

Why are my knees bending?

[@tanejaopgaming6103]

the one true king ...Xd

[@anhilatorofignorance2584]

What good did that monster did He just saved his community ie Zionist thats it Hitler wouldn't had killed Any white british over There He was as racist as Mr Churchill

[@christophergarcia8726]

@Louis Jones 🤣🤣

[@jebkara529]

If someone a war hero, it simply doesnt just erase all the wrong doings of their past, especially at this scale.

[@thepict837]

Get over yourself he is a British hero.

[@georgeroy9806]

@@thepict837 so he's a villai in India, get over yourself.

[@kuniosaiki]

The Pict Get over yourself, he was not a saint.

[@thepict837]

@@kuniosaiki Yeah who is. Not many. If you were to pick through the historical deeds of India's leaders, I think you will find they were not all strawberries and roses ether. Hypocritical hisorical nit picking . People in glass houses should not be throwing stones.

[@britishpride4737]

The Pict Churchill was a paedophile too but hey who cares right?

[@cleo5793]

Even in Britain many question his legacy...but the racists would rather you didn't know or express the truth.

[@meow14115]

"Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely, great men are always almost bad men" -Lord Baron Acton

[@lakshyakumar3629]

power doesnt corrupt but reveal

[@pikurajbhuyan2207]

Wtf,you the evil of the society

[@hooleeschitt9240]

Make your own quotes - Albert Einstein

[@meghagosavi6342]

@@hooleeschitt9240 well that's also a copied quote ~me

[@amirrezai2118]

War is destroying. We need to learn from history

[@ice-tgaming4609]

Were humans we will always reapeat history beacuse of our pride,greed and hate to each othet

[@leighjordine4031]

Welcome to life poeple

[@sosig8332]

Yeah that’s what we’ve been saying through all history, good luck

[@amirrezai2118]

@MOsKOn don't follow the people who look for war, results of the war much worse than war itself. Watch some Documentary film about previous wars

[@amirrezai2118]

@s b people need to change their mind instead of removing status.

[@osakaboyz]

One man's freedom fighter is another's terrorist. Primal Scream

[@spaliverpool71]

ABSOLUTELY

[@MrJustbrowsing12345]

Nelson Mandela 🤔

[@mickricke5483]

Britain has a track record of branding those they terrorise as terrorists to legitimise British war crimes.

[@sumeet80114]

How mr churchill will be called as freedom fighter when he deprived 3 million people of food, I does not understand this mate? Instead He should be recalled as racist, arrogant Idiotic leader.

[@sid7967]

@@sumeet80114 3 million?? It was 11 million in total

[@StipularFern]

UK praising church hill is like germany praising hitler

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

Garbage. Read a history book. . . . .

[@aryakomal]

I can't fathom how much I love my country. I had tears in my seeing those images of malnourished children. I am speechless.

[@Therealtuxedo]

@Choudhry Ali lmao frl

[@aniruddhxie2k215]

And we can't blame you

[@JoHNWICKKK]

@Choudhry Ali round 1 never ended for pakistan

[@JordanWilliams-ix2td]

It's crazy how they don't teach this in school

[@idkatthispoint-s9s]

@@JordanWilliams-ix2td you seem to be British. Yea they don't teach their atrocities in the curriculum.

[@epblmb1833]

It's not a famine when you're starved on purpose, it's murder

[@jdlc903]

Not quite winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/did-churchill-cause-the-bengal-famine/

[@borninthewoods4482]

That's like saying Stalin is a icon in Russia but seen as a murderer in Ukraine...

[@anirbanmahapatra]

Churchill is worse than lenin just look at both of their track records of mass murders

[@Teufer2]

@@anirbanmahapatra Don't think so. Churchill refused to give food to starving peasants because those ressources would be better spent in the war against Nazi Germany. Lenin used chemical weapons against peasants because they refused to give up their food.

[@anirbanmahapatra]

@@Teufer2 Still he is accountable for more deaths in the count of history than Lenin. If you go through much of history you can watch the numerous bloodbaths he was associated with. Nothing can justify the genocide of 4 million humans, and then branding him off a hero. This is the sickest joke on humanity.

[@Teufer2]

@@anirbanmahapatra He is a hero to the British because he saved the country from an invasion. If the indians see him as a villain then fine. Also he didn't cause the famine. He refused to help. He didn't go there an slaughtered them like Jingis Khan.

[@anirbanmahapatra]

@@Teufer2 I'm not saying he came in and slaughtered us all. But there was loads of shipments of ration and food coming for our aid but he routed them for the war. And there were many other circumstances where he turned a blind eye. Brits might see it inadvertently but he was the cause of it. And for the war mate 2-3 million Indians fought in the 2nd world war alone. However, the past is the past.

[@aheat3036]

Winston Churchill was one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen!…. India will never have a leader like him & it’s certainly not Narendra Modi who’s known as the “Butcher of Gujarat”!… Yes, he’s despised by the religious and ethnic minorities of India!

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

Churchill was the greatest statesman of his generation. . . .

[@tinku067]

lol the great leader who lost, your ancestor the working class common britishers kicked him to the curb. Great racist who lost and used power and prestige to further himself enabled by jesters like Sir Maurice.

[@ieatmauriceforbreakfast]

Another fake account of Duckmaster spotted 😂

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@ieatmauriceforbreakfast Seeing me everywhere, are you? A sure sign you’re losing it. . . .

[@maheshnaira437]

This video never spoke about how Churchill diverted food grains to Europe at the time of famine in india...

[@douglasbader6240]

Probably because he never did. ….

[@douglasbader6240]

@@adityapant9223 Really? Why is that? …

[@drdwaipayandas6592]

@@douglasbader6240 you must be joking here

[@ananthu8534]

@@douglasbader6240 Realize this , You people aren't different to that of Hitler. Churchill and Hitler , both were monsters . Winning the War never make Churchill a Saint

[@douglasbader6240]

@@ananthu8534 "You people aren't different to that of Hitler. Churchill and Hitler , both were monsters ." - Realise this: Churchill was a great humanitarian, social reformer, peacemaker, anti-racist, statesman, writer, wit and artist. Also realise that Churchill didn't "win the war", and nobody of importance - least of all he - has ever claimed that. Churchill led the country at a time of very great peril. He kept it together long enough for the Allies to recover from their initial disasters and gradually wrest the initiative away from the Axis. So - are you up for this debate, Indian? ....

[@borisbigbollocks3422]

As a Brit myself you have my deepest sympathies about our dark past and crimes against those we cruelly occupied and oppressed.

[@siddhantmishra3598]

, do let your youth know of their past .

[@sitcomnerds8620]

F**K U...

[@godofwar3432]

Thank You Sir, I really liked Theressa May. She was very saddened by british monarchy evilness. It is a shame Borris took over UK.

[@raghavkaushish2978]

@@icegaming2862 blatant lie

[@icegaming2862]

@@siddhantmishra3598 why

[@ayushapoorva]

Acknowledgement of wrongdoing is good enough for us, we don't need anything else. Hope they teach colonial history as well to students rather than completely ignoring that and making a separate subject. People should know the past to not repeat it again.

[@Theemptythroneistaken]

Already is happening in places like China,Bulgaria and Russia!

[@the1nonlyani]

They don't teach any colonial history 🤦🏾‍♀️ I was taught from 2008 - 2013 doubt anything has changed since then

[@hi-nw7qy]

@Jack W Every monument will remind at least someone of bad things. That doesn't mean liberation is needed. It depends on the overall point of the statue. Someone who is remembered as a slave trader? Take it down/museum. Someone who is a war hero with a shady past? Remember the wrong hut celebrate the right.

[@hi-nw7qy]

@Jack W I agree with that. Stuff like confederate statues in the US should mostly be put in museums because they're main representation is bad. But their Presidents are seen as good to them although they've done shady stuff like Washington owning slaves (except Andrew Jackson, fuck that guy). I think it depends on why the statue was erected and the good vs bad. In India Ghandi deserves statues because he did many great things, he also had very fucked up beliefs about certain things but the statues are not meant to signify those and as a whole he was more good than bad. Hitler did some good, he rose Germany out of poverty and made them a superpower, but he also committed genocide, as a whole he was more bad than good. As you can see I like examples lol.

[@arunsreenivasan2074]

I’m still being taught.... not even 1 mention of Britain’s colonial past. It goes English Civil War... then WW1 happened. Nothing else in between!

[@lostinsilenxe]

It will be painful forever. He was brutal more than Hitler. He was mass murderer

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

Utter nonsense. You’re completely ignorant. . . .

[@duolingo7349]

🤦

[@Adriano993]

This is true 👌 but this generation hasn't endured that suffering so they should be quiet. Britain is no longer an empire of evil, just an island. Maybe we should be talking about more modern atrocities, instead of going around in circles about the mistakes of an older generation. 👌

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@Adriano993 What is true? . . .

[@Adriano993]

9 + 10 = 21 @mauricebuckmaster9368

[@ECE_Pratyush]

It is the dark history of our colonial rule... Indians especially bengalis never ever forget this act of mass killing just because of bad policies...

[@samsativa245]

So none of you blame the Japanese invasion... at all? Weird if that's the way its taught to you in school. Very biased.

[@apollocreed5391]

The UK did kill them you muppet

[@MDALAMIN-un3ku]

As Bangali, originally from Bangladesh, it is very heartbreaking. I am shocked to know about it.

[@saubhagyasingh7515]

@Xi jing ping 😂😂😂😂

[@SJ-xi3ug]

You mean...you were unaware of this🤨🤨🤨

[@MDALAMIN-un3ku]

@@SJ-xi3ug yes

[@कुछहोगा]

@@MDALAMIN-un3ku it means Bangladesh don't taught history of British Raj

[@MDALAMIN-un3ku]

@@कुछहोगा yes they only told us in our history books about 1971

[@achyutbiswas8276]

I got freaked out when I see movies and series glorify this guy! Some one rightly said Even God doesn't trust Brits in dark

[@kamalkumar7978]

@Amelia Jones That not rude at all. Thats your ancestors' reality and even yours to some extent. Many brits of today don't even recognize wrongdoings of your ancestors. They justify those wrongdoings. I mean ofcourse they would justify, afterall all that you have today is because of your ancestors wrongdoings to us.

[@arpanmalakar11]

@Amelia Jones so if the Brits think that the truth is hidden, why do they even bark here to defend their colonial rule? The conservative party is corrupt.

[@ishanbarot8416]

She removed her cmmnt XD, when you can't handle truth

[@winstonchurchill1639]

@@ishanbarot8416 RULE BRITANNIA🇬🇧 BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES🇬🇧

[@billclinton3862]

Yes because we will recreate the empire and it will happen all over again

[@mdabdulkhalique137]

Such as shameful representation by saying that india blames Churchill's for the famines rather accepting the fault... You British people will not understand until and unless same happens with you...

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

Gibberish and gobbledegook. Please re-write. . . .

[@ieatmauriceforbreakfast]

​@@mauricebuckmaster9368all you do is insult , without any backing with facts...and you and your sidekick fake account Apollo is doing the same to every comments.

[@apollocreed5391]

​​@@ieatmauriceforbreakfasthe actually cites his evidence, you on the other hand provide nothing. PS. Gibberish and gobbledegook is not an insult.

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@apollocreed5391 The wazzak copies everything I write. Let’s just ignore him from here on. He’s destroyed - and this latest comment of his shows that he knows it . . .

[@apollocreed5391]

@@mauricebuckmaster9368 OK. OK cool. Let's do this. He's got nothing to add

[@NChatterjee]

My grand father said that he saw that mother's feeding their children scraps from road side dustbin

[@msp9413]

...but I see that on a daily basis in modern india

[@VishalRaj-in8my]

@@msp9413 where you see and how many people feeding.

[@msp9413]

@@VishalRaj-in8my hyderabad

[@CoolDude-jp1kj]

@@msp9413 Typical India. Rubbish country

[@jeetsahu5513]

@@msp9413 you should not be worried about us we will eradicate poverty in coming years built a nation standing because of our people not looting resources from other counties ,like most europe did

[@aries4571]

Conversation ended when you said, churchill 'legacy'.

[@Bignfluffy]

@@gatheringtub63 he got nothing thats why ge stfu

[@mahiransworld_2011]

As a bengali, i am deeply and equally heartbroken to hear Samanta's words.

[@aurkochakrabarti1621]

It should not be as a Bengali but as an Indian. This is exactly what the British wanted. If Indians were more united and showed some pride for their own nation then these genocides would be talked about more. I can guarantee you that Indians know more about the Jewish Holocaust than they do about their own Holocausts.

[@prinznoir7371]

@@aurkochakrabarti1621 Fck ur dumb logic We have been Bengalis for the last 1700years. Our other half's in then Pakistan also sacrificed 30million lives to keep their "Bengali" identity. Now. Another mf is here to tell us about forgetting our roots

[@mahiransworld_2011]

When I say, 'as a bengali', I mean as an indian too.

[@eggsandwich7896]

@@aurkochakrabarti1621 , even if I say as a Bengali it would be because of this being particularly named Bengal Famine. As an Indian it is equally as shameful and sad but as a Bengali who knows it happened to their own ancestors, rage also takes place.

[@idek5105]

As a British person, I deeply apologise for what happened.❤️

[@smh2431]

Y wasn't I taught this in school. They made me think he was a hero. I'm not saying he isn't but schools did not teach me this. Obviously there's 2 sides since he's England's hero and India's enemy so I'm not hating.

[@smh2431]

@Alan Braham well said 👏👍

[@rodstewartstewart5910]

@@smh2431 Think about it. When someone dies. You or a family member, at your funeral they will only say lovely things about you. Maybe paint a positive picture for the younger generation thus not to breed hate or negativity. Then later on in life, with a deeper understanding of life and death, war and what society was like back then, we can learn more about the mistakes he made with an adult brain. Its very hard to grasp why so many died when your in school. If you sent ship after ship carrying supplies but most were intercepted or destroyed. Would you continue to waste all those supplies and help the enemy or do you send the food and supplies to all the soldiers fighting an enemy that aims to invade your country and murder all of your people? As hard a decision as that is, he made it, im not sure if i would have to courage to sacrifice so few to save so many. I would want to save them all. But you cant. Thats war

[@smh2431]

@@rodstewartstewart5910 since I wasn't taught about these events I had to do some research. India sent men to help out england in the war but Churchill called them beastly people with a beastly religion. I'm top of that he starves 3 million people from India. How are we supposed to know if it was an accident or not. England had many allies who could also supply food but since they colonized India they thought they could do whatever they want. In my eyes it was a victory but it was the worst victory possible since the outcome could've been a lot better

[@Fireglo]

Schools always only teach one side of the story.

[@abhishektandon8373]

@@smh2431 for us Hitler was not Hitler , but churchill was Hitler.

[@jcxkzhgco3050]

As an Indian, I hate him, but I don't get offended if some Brits are proud of him, it's just a natural tendency to support someone from your country

[@behrozkhan7097]

Bro people from Pakistan,India and Bangladesh are proud of their people because they have done a lot for the betterment of their people while the British were rasist people who thought they were better than the people living in the subcontinent but in reality they weren't even close to how much the mughals were worth.

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@behrozkhan7097 Twot.

[@valetudan234]

@@mauricebuckmaster9368 yes you are

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@valetudan234 Twot.

[@chitranjankumarkushwaha4259]

@@behrozkhan7097 not only Mughals hindu rulers shivaji maharaj chandra gupta Maurya

[@aldegarvermundjankovic206]

"I'm playing both sides so that i always come out on top" -BBC

[@PrakashSingh-wp6wt]

When your nation is ruled by foreign powers, this is going to happen. Vandematram

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

You did it to yourselves ! . . . .

[@anshbali5623]

​@@mauricebuckmaster9368it was forced don't get your tale in every comment without knowing abcd kiddo so now get lost and play okie okie with your mum

[@anshbali5623]

@prakashsingh-wp6wt .....vandematram😊

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@@anshbali5623 Stop liking your own comments, Gunga Din. . . . .

[@anshbali5623]

​@@mauricebuckmaster9368who liked yours pussy cat....I ain't your servant I am free to do whatever I like and 2nd thing is that you also do the same so don't lecture

[@alexanderfedorov2058]

Not just indian Churchill also murdered milions in Africa and Europe also Asia He killed atleast 100 milion or more

[@apollocreed5391]

Lol 🤣🤣

[@apollocreed5391]

Why not just go for a cool 1 billion 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@notyourtypefan7743]

@@apollocreed5391 shut up forget 1940 bombing of london

[@holyfeline715]

Source?

[@stamfordmeetup]

makes you wonder how he had time to be prime minister. He would have been far too busy killing people allegedly.

[@levihangshing1568]

Hard to imagine that 2.5 volunteer Indian soldiers fought for British during WW2, yet Churchill never want to give up India independence. All heil to Mountbatten.

[@utkarshverma7]

?? Britishers left because all the wealth was drained, not because of some moral value

[@billclinton3862]

Only two and a half Indian soldiers took part in WW2?

[@shinchanindia6306]

@@billclinton3862 2.5 million soldiers

[@billclinton3862]

@@shinchanindia6306 2.5 million? The British army comprised of 2.5 million men the Indians who took part were just under 200.000

[@shinchanindia6306]

@@billclinton3862 The Indian Army during World War II was one of the largest Allied forces contingents which took part in the North and East African Campaign, Western Desert Campaign. At the height of the second World War, more than 2.5 million Indian troops were fighting Axis forces around the globe.

[@NoName-bm7xg]

More than Indian children, the British kids should be taught about this part of their ancestry. They should know over how many graves, is their country built.

[@paganlion1003]

@sax yes they should

[@paganlion1003]

@sax and what about our education system that your country destroyed . We will invade your country with knowledge and experience and suck up every resource available , beware !

[@paganlion1003]

@sax that's why your children should study history , cause you yourself don't know what your country did !

[@paganlion1003]

@sax hindustan

[@paganlion1003]

@sax bharat

[@Agent_7007]

Based churchil

[@mikecain6947]

The Indian Army during World War II, a British force also referred to as the British Indian Army, began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000 men. By the end of the war, it had become the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945.

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

@Mr. Anal Molestadeep Gupta Sexshit Sharma Kerala must have been a worthless shithole, then. Probably still is. …

[@quinattasneemrafique536]

Indian origin Rishi Sunak becomes UK PM today😍

[@Englishman_and_mountains]

So what?

[@Englishman_and_mountains]

@chungushan7933 definetly not lol

[@sharath6689]

@Amyusncry hard Britain will going britanistan

[@hassymiia6267]

@@Englishman_and_mountainstaking back what belongs to India.

[@Englishman_and_mountains]

@hassymiia6267 can we have out universities back, infrastructure, education, railways back then please?

[@machiquito]

Newsflash: Churchill is not a hero.

[@apollocreed5391]

Why?

[@thyageshnathan598]

@@apollocreed5391 kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3TKc4R8nbZ6nJIfeature=shared

[@Tjmce]

6:17 not all white lives..... U know irish 🇮🇪

[@clairee4939]

Yes, the Black and Tans. 😟🇬🇧🇮🇪🕊️

[@ukisbeggar8462]

@@clairee4939 🇬🇧=💩

[@clairee4939]

@@ukisbeggar8462 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@ukisbeggar8462]

@@clairee4939?

[@clairee4939]

@@ukisbeggar8462 🤫 FLEGS!! 🤪

[@Vayu_arya]

We were all brothers 🇮🇳🇵🇰 🇧🇩 But now we are divided in the name of religion,which makes us weaker if we unite south east asia can dominate the world economy

[@time_walker8904]

"your queen still wears a stolen diamond "

[@time_walker8904]

@@georgeclarke4686 this is just the beginning.

[@Progress234]

@@georgeclarke4686 England is now a dying country and you are not going to die just start to cry like a baby

[@time_walker8904]

@@georgeclarke4686 You will die just for a stolen diamond. Wonderful! The gang of thieves would be proud of you and Great Britain(thieves' kingdom) for that.

[@time_walker8904]

@@georgeclarke4686 😂Oh human, why you think so?

[@time_walker8904]

@@georgeclarke4686 nice joke🤣.

[@irishguy5712]

Churchill " I always found the Irish rather strange, they never wanted to be British"

[@AB-gz9yb]

😂😂

[@MrAzboGaming]

Wow the salty fascist really are out in full swing today. The famines over. Go home

[@clairee4939]

"famines"?? God save Ulster from Apostrophes!! :-P

[@MrAzboGaming]

Claire E get a job you piteous half wit

[@reginaphalange7074]

@@MrAzboGaming haha so is the British Raj Go home

[@mohammedhasanain2555]

Next time someone tells me to go back to my country please give us back our diamonds (crown jewels) and we will happily go back

[@TonyStark-fj4vb]

Yea and give us back the people u killed

[@carnaticclassical317]

Abuse their robbing royalty

[@bmw3-er]

@@TonyStark-fj4vb I am sure he didn't kill anyone but Churchill did with his power. Stop being so hypocrite.

[@gopalngl8945]

Very sad incidents.. today's britan wealth is upon poor Indian's blood and flesh

[@mauricebuckmaster9368]

Garbage. . . .

[@anshbali5623]

​@@mauricebuckmaster9368garbage is your brain

[@sourabhtanwar8799]

You will shock to know that British or European or American history never taught this things in schools. What a shame and they think they are very liberal and intellectual.

[@nathaniel2566]

Better educational system than you by far. Higher IQ too

[@sourabhtanwar8799]

@@nathaniel2566 soo China's education is legit but doesn't make them intellectual or liberal minded.

[@nathaniel2566]

@Dream SMP News the average is wayyy higher in Europe than Africa, Middle East, South Asia, North America, south east Asia

[@hope856]

@@nathaniel2566 The comment was not about the education system. It's about covering up the history.

[@shakerbrigade8321]

@@nathaniel2566 Yup west is better than all parts of the world but for how long?Now it is time for Asia.Just imagine only 1 china has the capability to constipate the entire west. There will be more countries in asia to challenge the hegemony of ur master aka US.

[@nikocado_one_true_fan]

i researched about winston churchill for my college class and the shit he did but we were never taught is mind blowing

[@snigdhadeshpande2093]

Did the lady just say that discrimination to a level that results to death is just “unpleasant”?

[@peter-shauntyrell5613]

I think shes being objective and pragmatic, but I see where youre coming from

[@kapilbusawah7169]

She doesn't need to use hyperbole. I also talk like that. If it's already clear the transactions were detrimental, it's of no benefit to to be more extreme. I like the way she put it because Churchill did do a lot to save the British but also he extorted India's resources to the point civilisation couldn't feed themselves. It's always important to look at both sides. When it came to his country Churchill was as patriotic as it could be but when it came to respecting the country that saved his own, he wouldn't dare save them due to biases he had about the Indian people of the time.

[@peter-shauntyrell5613]

@@kapilbusawah7169 agree with you there. Shes a professor of history so it's in her blood not to be emotional or subjective when talking about historical figures and events.

[@andrewwilliams3137]

When she uses the word "unpleasant" it's a typical English understatement It has nothing to do with racism. Look up English understatement on Wikipedia.

[@kartikvohra25]

Hitler's legacy is still painful for Brits!

[@tinku067]

Sir Maurice can agree on that, while he argues with Nazis.

[@tinku067]

Sir Maurice can agree on that, while he argues with Nazis.

[@sancharinikar571]

We miss you Soumitra Chaterjee

[@wajid2004khan]

Who is soumitra

[@soumyadeepghosh8594]

@@wajid2004khan A legendary Bengali actor and also a poet,writer and playwright.

[@leaphengleng2941]

One of the forgotten genocide that we all should remember.

[@panthir6720]

Tbh tho who’d even be surprised by this unless they don’t know history

[@Calcearius]

You'd be surprised how many of these people that want to take statues down know zero about history or anything about the statues they want to take down! It's all political anyway you suggest removing a statue of a left wing politician that owned slaves and you see their attitudes change rather quickly because that doesn't fit their agenda.

[@SamC-yt2zs]

Most Brits are pretty ignorant of colonial history to be fair. It's skimmed through in schools. Need to give people more of an understanding.

[@chandijayawickrama9814]

I'm a Sri Lankan who grew up in the UK - I knew nothing of partition or the Bengal Crisis until I started living in Asia again and met and spoke to Indian friends. In the UK we were taught about the Romans , Vikings, and WWII focusing on the Nazis and the blitz in our history lessons.. there was nothing ever mentioned about slavery or colonialism. Huge gaps in our knowledge even as a South Asian child growing up there. Desperately needs to change.

[@stevengruber57]

@@chandijayawickrama9814 I'm from the UK and we learned about the Romans and Vikings in Primary School and we learned about the Tudors, the Unification of Germany, WW2 AND colonialism, including the Atlantic Slave Trade, in Secondary School. There were other topics too, but these were the main ones I can remember.

[@50secs]

@@SamC-yt2zs LOL at the ID.

[@DankFantasy2]

Say whatever you want, Churchill was a hero, no matter what

[@apollocreed5391]

Absolutely, ignore the haters

[@brokenSnake]

Being a hero isnt about protecting your own. Its about establishing justice for everyone. Also it's funny how england is now being colonized by immigrants mostly from south East Asia and complaining about it. What, you thought you would just walk into the sunset?