The Bengal Famine of 1943: Natural Disaster or Man-Made Catastrophe?

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[@superdooperoofer8941]

Do the irish famine

[@rid71k]

Ak fazlul hoque was a Muslim. Please fact check

[@phoenixfats1190]

Hurricane?

[@borntowild480]

Thank you for bringing out the reality of British Raj to the world

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[@ritaDas-xl4kz]

As a bengali,thanks for making this video,i am learning indian history of class 7 as i am a 12 year old,thanks now i know this before class/grade 8 thanks again!

[@thomasfrank280]

Do discuss this in class and try to read the works quoted here. All the best for the future.

[@ritaDas-xl4kz]

@@thomasfrank280 Thanks.

[@nlwilson4892]

I hope you have good teachers because this video covers issues more complicated than would be expected for your age. Some teachers get upset when you know more than them :)

[@ritaDas-xl4kz]

@@nlwilson4892 Ya i have good teachers,they actually sometimes ask us to tell stuff and actually when things are complicated they tell us to see the things,teachers are good ☺☺👍👍👍

[@geekbeer5846]

It's so awesome that you're so young and so interested in a channel like this. I hope your education goes well & your deeper interest in history / workings of the world take you places 👍

[@newbeginings4039]

I was eating my same old boring lunch when watching this. My lunch is no longer boring

[@ianosaurus27]

Dinner for me 😅🤤

[@Alpine5858]

My grandma's dad has to sell off her eldest sister just to afford rice to feed his family

[@bobbiscub]

I totally agree... Makes you really appreciate everything you have, doesn't it?

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

In Greece a classic thing that moms say to their children when they don't eat their food is " what you mean you don't like your food? little kids at your age in Africa are starving - be thankful for what you have!! " 😏

[@bobbiscub]

@@Pavlos_Charalambous Hahaha! Here in America I heard the exact same thing growing up! It's wonderful how things like travel the boundaries of language!

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

May I make a suggestion? The 1941 Greek famine, it was man made, connected to the Bengal one with both the axis and the British blaming each other for who is most to blame for

[@kapuagutchen8171]

England took the food from India to feed its own self in Europe and its Army. Food was grown in India but didn't feed Indians in 1940s..England didn't wanna take responsibility for this because they are having issues with Food.

[@jimjones8736]

@@kapuagutchen8171 Why don't you blame the Japanese equally for invading Burma...

[@jimjones8736]

Ehhh.... I don't think the Brits invaded Greece. In fact we helped you gain your independence.

[@niqerfaguettranykyke]

@@jimjones8736 because Japan being part of the Axis isnt supposed to hamper the source of nourishment for it's enemies? Also your comment is exactly what the OP meant.

[@jimjones8736]

@@niqerfaguettranykyke If I could understand what you are saying I would reply. I can't, so I won't. Cheers.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:25 - Chapter 1 - A history of famine 4:20 - Chapter 2 - The famine of 50 10:15 - Mid roll ads 11:30 - Chapter 3 - Supply & demand 18:50 - Chapter 4 - Unsettled blame

[@levistoner]

I am 44 years old, well educated and well read, especially on WWII, but I had never, ever heard of this tragedy. More research must be undertaken, pictures of kids with bloated bellies and starving eyes hits me like a sucker punch in my soul.

[@shindari]

Neither have I. But nor am I surprised by that. World War II overshadows everything that happened between 1939 and 1945.

[@NikhilChaudhariimbevda]

You should listen to Shashi Tharoor's Britain owes repriations to India speech in Britain itself..you will get a fair idea..

[@frozenhorse8695]

What hits me like a sucker punch in my soul. Is the way the media went from referring to the world wars, as number 1 and 2, insted of first and second. Makes it sound like people expect a number 3 on shelf any day. 1. and 2. if you would be so kind.

[@eirikbelisarius1100]

It's a well known historic event. It's better known than most other famines of the same magnitude. The reason it is an ongoing debate is because it plays a political role today in Indian nationalism and Churchill bashing in general. I don't understand the need to hang this around the neck of Churchill. To manage a world war is very demanding. I doubt he had much control over what happened in Bengal. One must not forget that the Japanese occupied Burma at the time, a traditional breadbasket of Bengal and in effect had control of the shipping in the Bengal Bay. This was probably a perfect storm of drought, disease, war, bad communication, poverty and incompetence.

[@yehlamhaa]

@@eirikbelisarius1100 Bengal was and is a Bread Basket... It's a fertile Plain fed by big perennial rivers and called Rice Bowl of India... It has sufficient fish production/day to feed the entire British population for 1 month..

[@shelbabe804]

In 2013, I took a class in university (British Empire and Commonwealth). We were required to read Churchhill's secret war, so the fact that it's mentioned in this video really threw me off. There was a big emphasis on other articles about how while the food sent back to Bengal was having issues and not providing what was necessary, there were warehouses of food spoiling and rotting at the same time...

[@darrinscott6612]

Holy shit, someone actually covered this in a factual, non-agenda-driven way? This is why I love this channel.

[@arnaldoteodorani277]

Thanks Darrin. I was the researcher and author for this video (you can check the name in the credits at the very end) and I was striving for a balanced view. Thank you for your comment, it reassured me that the video was indeed non-partisan. Have a great day!

[@jeanpierrereynoso-fournel4378]

In the course of human events, when are there really non-agenda driven ways?

[@darrinscott6612]

@@jeanpierrereynoso-fournel4378 Typhoons don't have agendas. also, my point was about the coverage of the incident, not the incident itself. I'm just glad that someone managed to cover this in a way that wasn't propaganda.

[@muffinnman]

@@arnaldoteodorani277 By balanced do you mean giving equal credence to white people who ruled over brown people and thought they were inferior?

[@baconcatbug]

@@muffinnman You comment just proves the need for agenda-less content.

[@agnivodas]

I'm from Kolkata, and it's lovely to see the forgotten history of my city getting covered. Please make a video on the birth of the city of Kolkata as well, as that too is a highly controversial topic. Thanks!

[@ritaDas-xl4kz]

Same

[@ArghyaDas44]

Same.

[@chriswall27]

Great comment, I've spent a little time in your home town and the Sundarbans and as a British person this was brought up often when I was talking to the locals.

[@vishnusr4842]

I'm not sure whether the Famine of 1943 was caused by this... But I have learnt in school that most Famines after Colonisation of India by the British were caused directly by shortage of Food crop production. Farmers were forced to either sell their lands to the British Government or do cultivation of crops according to their (British) interests. And the British in India were chiefly interested in trade more than ruling. So they demanded most farmable land for the cultivation of Cotton, Indigo, Jute, etc. Thus food production halted in a lot of places, and Famines emerged.

[@--enyo--]

NappyHeaded_ZeroCombs They explain that a bit in the video. Go back to 17:00 and listen from there.

[@gaylonjohnson904]

Keep up the great content Simon and Co. 🙌🏾👍🏾

[@TheJediCaptain]

Biographics video on Danny.

[@trapp998]

@@TheJediCaptain but he’s lived all his life in simon’s basement

[@shellymay-cutpastememories6667]

Excellent research done for this one-such a complicated event. I think one of the most disheartening aspects of this story is that, while the people were starving and selling their children, those who had resources to share instead exploited the starving people, buying their land and possessions rather than giving them food and assistance. Humanity was no where to be found it seems.

[@rodchallis8031]

hoarding may not have been, at least in all cases, as evil as it may appear to us now. While we can look back and see an end to the famine, and know how bad it got, those in the time didn't. It would be natural, not knowing how bad it was going to get, nor how long it was going to last, to hoard food against those unknowns if one had the ability to do so. Speculators, on the other hand, are clearly in the evil side of the ledger.

[@olivertaltynov9220]

Excellent research? You are modest :-)

[@AzadHind572]

That's the reality of capitalist culture

[@mrnobodytheuser2950]

@@AzadHind572 Holodomor is so much better ;)

[@otakuhunter4817]

Not in any way a complicated event .It is a complicated event to discuss as it showers light on the horrors undertaken by the victors of 20th century

[@UraRenge103]

Why can't people just admit that it might be ALL of those things. The october cyclone, brown dot fungus, Japanese occupation of Burma, inflation of rice prices w/o a corresponding increase in wages, mismanagement by the British, AND the large population of Bengal.

[@livingin1984]

Thats what im thinking...

[@misterbb4515]

Yes it is widely accepted. Most Indians take all these accounts into consideration. But it's Brits who fail to see the dark side of Churchill and the British War Cabinet.

[@jeffk464]

@@misterbb4515 Well they did have a war to win, nobody would have been better off if Imperial Japan and the Nazi's won the war. Its not like they were trying to starve people out, they had a lot of complex issues to try to figure out and manage.

[@speakingwithoutnet]

Most reasonable people do.

[@shimantohassan1414]

In my understanding, almost every sane persons consider all of these actions as causes. But, academic people tend to debate over which comes first or which caused more. So that in a different or future scenario, they can prioritize which "HOLES to FILL FIRST". But obviously without any doubt, every Hole has to be filled.

[@allanvijuvarghese6011]

Fazlul Huq was actually a Muslim, but it's true he was replaced by a member of an Islamic party. Also, it's Bihar, not Bishar. Otherwise, pretty good video👍🏾.

[@AClericalRhino]

Yeah, I was a little confused when he said Fazlul Huq was a Hindu.

[@mahmudulislam9535]

exactly my point

[@PranavKSingh]

Bihar was not part of Bengal during 1943 famine..it became separate state in 1905

[@hamidhamidi3134]

It was strange. anywhere Britain ruled other people the Famine killed people by their millions, from India to Ireland etc. very strange.

[@CB-fz3li]

So two places out of the many that were part of the empire.

[@georgehetty7857]

British rule also increased living standards , life expectancy, population, unfortunately you can’t have it both ways!

[@Naruto-zm5ck]

​@georgehetty7857 bruh 🤡 u r an entire circus

[@wendyu5076]

​@@georgehetty7857that was only applicable for the British only, ofcourse to provide for to their EMPIRE they had to improve and increase transportation and labour, so its all for their own good not that they were there to make indians life any better 🫤 So you saying that " can't have both way" doesn't apply to indians , the cost of so called good living standards was to much for the poor indian, Bengal famine wasn't the only atrocity, we have more in the books , jaliawala baag , madras famine etc.

[@georgehetty7857]

@@wendyu5076 Bollocks ……old chap!

[@firefighter6291]

Sponsored by KFC. Learn about one of the greatest man-made famines in history.

[@briandonovan1584]

Well played, Mr. Evans.

[@rsmith6366]

Don't forget when KFC ran out of chicken in the UK. They just didn't have any chicken, at all. And they remained open.

[@LisboaCigar]

If only the colonel gave a shit about bengal

[@jadhavkapil]

As an Indian youth the pictures of history like these keep me working to make progress for my country. We will never let this happen again.

[@Biodyn3758]

Well if you dont let english in your country again, then you ll be fine.

[@azumishimizu1880]

@@Biodyn3758 Good thing is! Indians now own most real estate in London & India is militarily far stronger. India will keep growing & the UK is slowly facing its karma.

[@saccorhytus]

@azumishimizu1880 The modern British people aren’t the guys who starved your grandfather

[@azumishimizu1880]

@@saccorhytus They are their heirs, and now we own their real estate. Times have changed. But tbh, i think it would be great for the rich to send more money back to India. Indians have the future in both India and Europe.

[@jadhavkapil]

@@saccorhytus doesn't matter the mentality of current generation is still the same. Search for any India's soace or any achievements and you will see brits being jelly.

[@spinyslasher6586]

As a Bengali, thanks for covering this topic. Although I've already read about this in history classes its still nice to hear Simon speak about it.

[@ryx007]

Wow, I'm a Bengali who had ancestors who succumbed to the famine and this video was posted on my birthday this year!

[@Aldarinn]

Shunlei gaye shihoron boye jaye. Onader atmar shanti chai ar apni khub khub vaalo thakben.

[@akashpandey1059]

Siraj-ud-Daula was defeated in the Battle of Plassey in 1757 by East India Company and the Company received the rights of Revenue and Tax collection of Bengal after Battle of Buxar in 1764, so any taxation after that was done by the greedy East India Company

[@marksnow7569]

Except that the E.I.C. initially collected taxes through the existing network of local officials. In 1770 they sent out British supervisors who began discovering uncomfortable truths, such as that when the Calcutta government ordered a tax cut due to the famine, some of those local collectors went on taking the old amount and pocketed most of the difference for themselves.

[@akashpandey1059]

@@marksnow7569 I don't know what you said about events in 1770 is well documented but there is no record of a famine before EIC taking control. If there is anything documented and available online please tag.

[@allangibson8494]

@@akashpandey1059There are six recorded major famines before British rule in India with the 1703 one killing 2 Million Indians for example..

[@kevinrwhooley9439]

I hope they do a video on the Irish Potato Famine as well.

[@choughed3072]

Include the Cornish potato famine as well, I know it happened on the British mainland and thus gets ignored because bad things don't happen to the British we only do bad things. Granted the Irish famine was worse but only a lunatic would treat famines as a point scoring game right?

[@Samm815]

A natural disaster made worse by incompetent politicians and bureaucrats.

[@scarletcrusade77]

Maybe they can do the IRA bombings on civilian targets too.

[@davidcollins8574]

England was a scourge on the planet for a long time. Just with nice manners

[@LancasterResponding]

You mean the Irish Banana Famine?

[@kmseyam7897]

3:02 Siraj-ud-doulla was murdered by The Brits and their fellows in 1757, after the battle of Plassey. The British East India Company ruled Bengal from 1757 onwards. Please update the video.

[@devamjani8041]

why no mention of tones of Indian crops being sent to britain and europe to be stored for 'future shortages' ?

[@tammy7087]

The researchers are thorough. Simon is articulate. These factors produce good content. Well done !

[@Tom_Samad]

To summarise: all these famines in Bengal were created by bad weather but were hugely exacerbated by British and local policies.

[@Cythan]

also the war was one of the biggest things

[@saifchowdhury3581]

Pretty much yeah instead of a dozen thousand people dying, millions died. So 100 times increase in casualty. So horribly exacerbated by local and British officials.

[@leagueofdead569]

@@saifchowdhury3581 you're completely forgetting that this happened during a world war. The policies had an impact but the war also contributed majorly to the number of deaths.

[@breezemont1161]

@@leagueofdead569 the brits even stopped food aid from US, canada and Indians over seas to bengal during famine. Churchill stockpiled the food of bengal in UK and asked that Indian deserve famine for breeding like rats and why Gandhi hasn't died yet? Can't beleive people still defend that monster.

[@josephrusso4828]

@@leagueofdead569 You're right. The key is to figure out roughly how many of these deaths were the officials responsible for.

[@imonghosh912]

As a Bengali from Calcutta, let me tell you, the hatred Churchill had for us was equivalent to what Hitler had for Jews. Bengal was notoriously opposed to the British rule and saw the most violent insurgencies to gain independence. And Churchill hated us, all that "beastly people with a beastly religion" comments are well documented. The video omits many instances of food supplies which came from Australia and were in Calcutta docks which were then diverted to the middle East for war efforts in the Balkans. Churchill only sought for help when the worse had already happened, although conscious stricken British officials were asking for help for months. So many here do believe that Churchill seeking help was just an eye wash. The real tragedy is, Hitler and the Nazis are vilified for putting 6 million Jews in the gas chambers, yet Churchill is venerated as a hero inspite of starving almost the same number of Bengalis to death. Sooner or later though, the world will know. Thanks a lot for the video. 🙏

[@vinay7397]

The lower classes died in the Bengal famine, they sold their land and property to richer Indians for next to nothing for a bag of rice. Don't pretend all the Bengalis were dying.

[@shikharagrawal1797]

The Brits were no better than the Nazis, Churchill was no better than Hitler and what these imperialists did was no less the the holocaust.

[@paolorossi784]

​​@@vinay7397stop lying, the British govt got food from India and stockpiled their reserves and also supplied their army at the expense of Indians. The selling of land to the wealthy was secondary to the hunger that had rocked Bengal after the British chose to starve them. How did you expect the poor to survive when the only thing they had to exchange for food was land? You must have a low digit 1Q to believe your bs. More than 3 million indians lost their lives.

[@vinay7397]

@paolorossi784 impossible for 95 percent of Indians to have a rational conversation.

[@aspiwri664]

@@vinay7397 Yeah so what's your point?

[@gabbyn978]

I am fairly sure that one day, there will be a discussion about the pandemic of 2019 to 2022, that is hotly debating the question if the high death toll was caused by the nature of this specific new sickness, poverty, overpopulation, or sheer negligence by the politicians... this topic is never easy to answer.

[@dtaylor10chuckufarle]

Damn good point.

[@ayanomar1408]

I would highly say the latter and sheer ignorance and fear mongering media😔. one day I will tell my daughter how I couldnt find One box of diaper or formula this past year.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Does the Xi admin cause it?

[@therealturdferguson8355]

@@SlapstickGenius23 by then it will be known as the Xi Dynasty lol

[@tenaturner3942]

The current pandemic clearly originated in China. Most likely from bats imported from the SARS caves and brought to the Wuhan level 4 biohazard lab. My guess is that human error let loose the pandemic due to sloppy handling and human error. There are about 100 species of bats in China, all carrying viruses.

[@user-ql4ps1zy8m]

This completely skimmed over the fact that Churchill ordered that diversion of US and Canadian aid to his own, already well supplied troops. "They should learn to look after themselves as we have done".

[@MagicBoxluc4]

Thank you for calling us ‘Bengali” instead of Indian or Bangladeshi. With the shared culture, Bengali makes way more sense.

[@s.12330]

During entire British and company rule India had many many man made famine because of the policies due to which 30 to 40 million people died but after India got Independence not a single famine occurred in the history of independent India.

[@ArghyaDas44]

You missed the fact that the famine of 1876 was caused by the lack of land to cultivate subsistence crops as Bengali farmers were forced to produce cash crops like Indigo in their field to supply raw material for industrial revolution in Britain and those field would be unusable for months after reaping, so there was not enough field to grow food for the population. Bengali weavers were also forced to work in the field and authority would severe the thumb of those carpenter or weavers who disobeyed the authority so they wouldn't have any choice but to work in the field as they couldn't weave without the thumb. There was also a revolt against it in 1859 called Indigo revolt. Btw great video, I really wait for them👍🏻👍🏻.

[@buff114]

Sounds like the free market can cause famine

[@callumstewart4285]

'Printing money is never a good idea'- as it led to the inflation that meant they couldn't afford their food. Yet here we are in 2020 printing the most in recorded history. We truly never learn 😪

[@rsmith6366]

In post ww2 Germany the printing of money caused such a high rate of inflation that one man recalls sitting down for a coffee only to find out afterwards that the money in his pocket is now useless.

[@hooliganic2506]

Printing money really is fine if you raise taxes as well, at least if you have a fiat currency.

[@waitwhat3547]

@@rsmith6366 post ww1 you mean?

[@josephrusso4828]

@@hooliganic2506 That doesn't really solve the problem, not in the long term.

[@josephrusso4828]

@@rsmith6366 That sounds more like the aftermath of WW1. You sure you're not talking about the interwar period?

[@bobbiscub]

Makes you really appreciate everything you have, doesn't it?

[@MoizCOUK]

it makes you think why world remembers hitler's genocide of jews but not british genocides of india

[@darkscratcher52]

@@MoizCOUK British vibes They hide everything

[@Dr.SyedSaifAbbasNaqvi]

@@MoizCOUK history is written by the victors. Churchill was as evil as Hitler.

[@unixnerd23]

A simple fact, a country which is not self governed and relies on the good auspices of another in times of hardship will never be in a strong position. The Empire extracted a great deal of wealth from India, had that wealth not been exploited perhaps India would have been in a stronger position to cope.

[@jhfdhgvnbjm75]

Perhaps, perhaps not. Would the local Maharajas have realy been much different? Yes we faild India, but we were just the last in a long line, I only wish we had done better...

[@Nyctasia]

This is far from the only famine, it isnt even the last, it had little to do with any wealth being extracted. As noted in the video, the early famine in the 1870s was averted by imports and British aid. In 1943 there was the slight problem of a world war going on, a desperate need for food in many areas, and a very restricted ability to ship food from anywhere else. You could also consider the Japanese seizing a lot of food stores and destroying others, that sort of thing happens in a war and cannot be planned for. The Empire had ceased making money by the 1890s, overall it was a drain of resources from some areas in order to support others, notably the less worthwhile African areas. The famine was a tragedy, it was not intentional, but bad things happen in war and sadly this is one of them.

[@DdrtAddh]

A very important history to remember.

[@kingkenny7393]

Amazing when you just discovered that India bengals famines was because a population could not be self sustains due to natural disasters but was dependent on another poor nation rice grains (Burma) but 🇬🇧 couldn’t provide this due to 🇯🇵 Asia conquest plans . Ww2 history should be taught in school especially in 🇬🇧

[@yt.personal.identification]

If you have the means, you have the responsibility.

[@chrisdixon2486]

Marcus Aurelius ?? Not sure if I spelled it right! But he is the 1st documented saying that!

[@yt.personal.identification]

@@chrisdixon2486 I am not sure I can attribute the quote accurately, unfortunately - that's why I didn't bother. Needless to say, it was someone far wiser than I will ever be.

[@ProjectEkerTest33]

Hey just wanted to say I really appreciate this video. Spent so much time listening to the left and the right scream their own version of events it is relieving to hear a balanced approach that sticks to the facts as much as possible.

[@josephrusso4828]

I wish people would apply this same balanced approach to events like the russian famine of 1921

[@ProjectEkerTest33]

@@josephrusso4828 In what way? As far as I know it was caused by years of war combined with the transition to communism. Are people trying to blame someone for it?

[@josephrusso4828]

@@ProjectEkerTest33 Yes, people try to blame the bolsheviks when the famine was actually caused by the civil war, natural famine, and the actions of some of the peasants.

[@ProjectEkerTest33]

@@josephrusso4828 I mean the bolsheviks were part of that no doubt but definitely not the only cause. Pretty much all sides in the civil war took food from the farmers

[@josephrusso4828]

@@ProjectEkerTest33 Exactly, if the capitalists were in charge, the exact same thing would’ve happened, yet people still blame the famine deaths on socialism.

[@nkmviolin]

The disaster that unfolded in British ruled Bengal during World War 2 has been largely forgotten. This is a holocaust that wiped out 3 million people from the face of this earth. I do not understand how Winston Churchill is any different from the Nazis. He was a racist war criminal, not a hero.

[@ilovecookies2532]

Britain would have won the war anyway

[@waitwhat3547]

@@ilovecookies2532 except it was south asian countries like india and Pakistan that provided nearly 4 million soldiers to fight the war, no man power = no victory

[@ilovecookies2532]

@@waitwhat3547 Yes, it wasn't because of Churchill

[@nkmviolin]

@@waitwhat3547 very well said.

[@abhilashdeo7396]

Brilliant video 👍 Love how they explore as many perspectives as possible... ....

[@KnightsWithoutATable]

The combination of crop failures and government inaction/incomitance in this video reminds me of a couple of the potato famines Ireland faced in the 19th century. It wasn't a colonial governorship that time, but the UK Parliament.

[@cd5433]

So much food was going from ireland to UK. Plenty to feed the people. Yet the UK was buying it and taxing it instead. They didn't care about the Irish. The Americans where the ones who sent the real relief aid and that was gathered through the population, not the government.

[@CoreyStudios2000]

But in the case of Bangladesh’s famine, which was horrible, no doubt, it was because Britain was fighting the Nazis in Germany. The British Isles couldn’t help because Hitler had control of most of Europe and the British had to make sure their island didn’t fall to Nazi rule.

[@joshuajohn8870]

@@CoreyStudios2000 "couldn't help" you mean take food which bengalis produced

[@CoreyStudios2000]

@@joshuajohn8870 Well, the British weren’t given much of a choice when Hitler was near the very doorstep of their island. War is a tragic thing and what happened to India was a clear example of how people were left with difficult choices when confronted with an invading force. Know, however, that it isn’t the only one and it’s not just a “white guy” thing.

[@joshuajohn8870]

@@CoreyStudios2000 they had enough food reserves as the war was nearly over. They kept taking shipments food to help with post war recovery.

[@sagnikbhattacharya6187]

Siraj-ud-Daulah died in 1757 at the Battle of Plassey against the EIC. Also, the Nawab was no longer in charge of Taxation in 1768. The EIC had those (diwani) rights since 1765 (following the Treaty of Allahabad signed with the Mughal Empire). The EIC raised the tax rate fearing a fall in share prices...

[@marksnow7569]

Siraj-ud-Daulah did not die in battle. He was executed a few days later. Also, the EIC tax situation is not quite as simple as "raised the tax rate". When Warren Hastings reported that the tax revenue was "violently kept up" during the famine, he was referring to the activities of the local Bengali officials, as helplessly observed by British supervisors who did not at the time have the power to prevent such abuses.

[@SKumar-mj6gf]

It was during Robert Clive rule 1770 famine occurred.

[@MadMan_123]

Gotta remember Great Britain fell apart pretty much during both wars. Their ships were sunk at every opportunity so that greatly affected moving goods. Also they were busy being bombed into gravel

[@sammynochains3455]

So they killed 5 million people ? Makes total sense

[@malcolmmalcolm6097]

@@sammynochains3455 its the war who kills them you donut

[@jackwei22]

@@sammynochains3455 Also since the mid 18th century until 1945 they killed even more people if you add that up it is more than that what Germany killed in WWII.

[@eatenbyghouls1849]

I dont imagine this will be a controversial comments section lol

[@JSkyGemini]

Nope, pretty sure there's a rare consensus here. Just horrible, and heartbreaking ...words fall short.

[@josephrusso4828]

@@JSkyGemini I don't really see the consensus you're talking about.

[@shraddhamishra301]

Even if they deny their villanous roles in Bengal....how can people think them Innocents....how the world can forget their deeds in almost every part of the world...including their own neighbour...the Ireland.

[@jdubo1998]

Because, news flash, there was a world war going on. Everyone was rationing food. India just got the worst of it.

[@shraddhamishra301]

That "just" is big....for many countries. And they cannot be forgiven, "just" because it was something everyone was doing...

[@jdubo1998]

@@shraddhamishra301 Sucks to suck. War ain't sunshine and rainbows, some countries get lucky some don't, shut up and suck it up.

[@shraddhamishra301]

Why so pissed? No one is blaming you. Murderers are getting blamed, because the countries that suffered were not involved in the first place in the fight. Some bastards wanted to up their power game...and millions died...and still they don't take even responsibility...forget reparations.

[@jdubo1998]

@@shraddhamishra301 "Responsibility" and "power games", give me a break. If there wasn't a World War going on at the time, sure get your pitchforks. But Nah, almost the entire world was in a sorry-ass state at the time, but hey, like Is said war ain't pretty, just something you have to deal with and piss off.

[@lebron2292]

Winston Churchill was responsible And as an Indian it's disgusting how the west portrays him as a hero, while he was a racist and responsible of the death of more than 3 million ppl

[@itachi_terabapp]

@@vatsal7640 Just Like west said to rest of the world and when we trusted them they backstabbed us ...

[@paddianneadorian3913]

This is one of the reasons I love listening to you, you try and inform us on everyone point of view and them let us make up our minds. It's also a great starting point to looking into a topic. Thanks

[@peppermann]

Excellent balanced view, beautifully narrated.

[@makulumac8394]

Great content but little bit of correction ,I m from Bangladesh and Fazlul Haq was Muslim . He was removed from his post because he was critical about British rule in Indian subcontinent. He have his own Wikipedia article if anyone interested.

[@avibhagan]

Let's see, a 5% drop in rice production, as compared to the previous year resulted in 1/4 of the population dying. Two years prior in 1941 the yield was 11% lower than in year of the famine 1943, but there was no famine in 1941 ? Of, course the policy and governance was the actual problem. British indifference to the suffering of the colonies is noted. They did the same thing to Ireland and also tried to call it a famine. It was the taxes and inflation that caused the death. People simply couldn't buy food. They also couldn't buy clothes. That is why the people are so barely clothed in the pictures. There was also a supposed cotton shortage. But no real shortage. The price had gone up. There was hyperinflation. There were also refugees from Burma that the British didn't do anything about. The British were too concerned about feeding the French to bother with the Indians.

[@TaufiqueJoarder]

Nabab Siraj ud Dawla was overthrown by the British East India Company in 1757. There was a puppet regime of the Company at the time of the famine. Historically it does not seem correct that the high tax imposed by Nabab Siraj contributed to the first famine. Rather it happened due to the colonial oppression of the British.

[@nickjung7394]

Oh dear, another "blame the British" session. How were the people of India treated by the Moghuls?

[@TaufiqueJoarder]

@@nickjung7394 Nawab Siraj was not a Mughal by the way. He was an independent Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Odisa. But that's not the main argument here. The tax that caused the famine was not imposed by the Nawab. It was imposed by the East India Company. Whether mughals or other local rulers were good or bad, thats a whole different discussion.

[@nickjung7394]

@@TaufiqueJoarder which famine are you talking about?

[@nickjung7394]

@@TaufiqueJoarder I didn't say he was. I was simply commenting on the way in which the population of the Indian sub continent was treated under previous regimes. The 1943 famine in Bengal was the result of inadequate, possibly racially motivated administration; those involved in the administration at the time were Indian born.

[@josephdaniel52]

Very well researched and good sources for opinions. Thank you, Simon!

[@Bengalinationalist]

As a bengali from Bangladesh, i thank you to uphold the atrocity,my great grandfather helped people as much as possible

[@ॐ-ब्रह्मांड-की-ध्वनि]

This man, Churchill, EVIL . A scholarly study found that British colonialism resulted in approximately 165 million deaths in India from 1880 to 1920 while stealing at least $45 trillion in wealth from the country. Tens of millions more Indians died in human-made famines that were caused by the British Empire1. The impact of British colonial policies during this period was devastating, with excess deaths far surpassing those caused by famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China, and North Korea combined2. This tragic chapter in history underscores the immense human cost of empire-building and exploitation.

[@rasithak.kk.k710]

India is poor until britsh came 😂 famines are natural

[@Furudal]

The way I read Winston‘s The Second World War it comes down to one issue: shipping As little as they had for military operations, Hitler and imperial Japan is as much to blame as the weather.

[@Aldarinn]

Only the British are to blame. Deflections are pointless here. All they had to do was to not build an empire to begin with.

[@EarthForces]

​@Aldarinn only naive fools with this statement are trying to put contemporary politics to what was a different time period and its circumstances. It is like those who said let us ban slavery but the time period they were asking for was like more than a thousand years ago.

[@aspiwri664]

@@EarthForces I guess that same logic then can be applied to the famine of Holodomor?

[@EarthForces]

@@aspiwri664 equating something EXTREMELY DIFFERENT HERE AREN'T WE? 🤡🤡🤡

[@--enyo--]

Damn. Usually I do other stuff while listening to the videos, but this was another one where I was sort of transfixed by the tragedy involved. I hadn’t even heard of it before. Thank you for making this.

[@Organic.Mechanic]

But isn’t it the government’s job to take care of the people whom they rule?

[@KishoreMathers]

not necessarily. an imperial establishment is basically an entrepreneurial governance. so, in times like those, it would have been easy for the colonial britain to justify that the welfare of those they expected to profit from was secondary to the profit itself. 1943 was when england started to kick hitler in the nuts and for them, winning the war carried the utmost importance, the frontlines of which demanded essential supplies.

[@misterbb4515]

@@KishoreMathers you can find numerous white dudes in the comment section justifying the deaths because Britain was apparently protecting the world

[@KishoreMathers]

@@misterbb4515 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@rishisaxena7863]

its not necessary british were crony capitalists they mean to profit . well today also if u see the more india becomes capitalist the more poor people will suffer like migration of indian labourers 2020 (man made disaster)

[@omgitsher220]

well technically yess, however the British were not in India to rule them they were there for their economic advantage of Britain. They gave no shit about Indian people and treated them worse than animals

[@raymondready7496]

The most logical reason to me is, the rice went to market. Even today this could happen. Some rich pos figures his profit for the year is worth more than 3 million people. Things are getting scary now.

[@josephrusso4828]

Yup. If you don't have to face the people you're screwing over, it's so much easier to screw them over.

[@cabbyb111]

This is one of many reasons of why Churchill isn't the untouchable hero so many make him out to be.

[@crackajacka87]

I'd disagree... I'd put this blame on a series of unfortunate events but mainly at the world war that was taking place on it's doorstep. The Japanese were closing in and the British did a scorched earth tactic to stop their advance along with the blight and the cyclone lead to this catastrophe and Churchill did try to send relief but to little avail with the Americans even declining to help so what was Churchill to do? Also the war on Britains doorstep had Churchills attention more on Europe than the rest of the empire. People prefer to blame someone rather than accept that at times, life can be very hard and this is not like the Irish famine where the British could of helped the Irish but chose not to because of the dislike towards the Irish and Churchill had a lot on his plate... If I had to judge a person responsible with this, it would be more down to the governor of the area as it was their job to ensure peace and stability in the region and he could of clearly of done more but seems he did very little and even downplayed the famine to probably not look bad.

[@dankulcs]

Love the videos your make. And how you cover things I've never heard of! Keep up the good work!

[@xAKIMBOCURLYx]

This is an incredibly well done video. One factor you've left out is the policy of price caps for rice. It said basically that prices must be lowered, with the local governments hoping that lowering prices would make food cheaper for locals. Sadly of course, forcing lower prices meant that food was taken away from these areas and sold to neighbouring regions where prices were allowed to climb higher. Incidentally this is why price caps never work.

[@lmkaplon]

Another awesomely narrated and informative video! My heart goes out to those who were affected. Video topic recommendation: Göbekli Tepe; the archaeological site that pretty much throws everything we know about ancient civilizations out on it's ear.

[@tatai1001]

Millions of Jewish people were killed and there is no confusion regarding the perps,millions of Indians were killed,"It is difficult to pinpoint who did it"..

[@4077Disc]

so much happy news in the world right now. thanks for providing balance, Simon

[@gorgonchang7352]

British genocide when spoken with British accent would miraculously turn it into "it's a tragedy". Nice, just nice. Also, maybe that's why Tony Blair is never persecuted for crimes against humanity for Iraq invasion. It's his accent. If he has Arabic accent, that would be another story entirely.

[@josephrusso4828]

Yup, two standards of justice; one merciful for the wealthy/powerful. while another, more harsh standard for the rest of us plebs.

[@cvenkat7766]

The Bengal famine can tell us how cruel were the colonial rulers and how innocent were the Indians .

[@timetraveltvniles7650]

People alway have strong opinions on wether it was natural or man-made. In reality it was probably a mixture of the two.

[@dairallan]

The evidence is pretty overwhelming that this was man made. The Irish Famine is worse, Ireland was **exporting food to Britain** while millions died.

[@commando4481]

Alasdair Allan This wasn’t man made but ok.

[@choughed3072]

@@dairallan we didn't cause the potato famine but we did make the effects worse.

[@crispyglove]

@@commando4481 The potato blight wasn't man made, but the famine it precipitated was entirely the fault of the British. They continued to export food from Ireland and further strangled them with the corn laws, which were tariffs on imported grain to protect the profits of British landowners.

[@dairallan]

@@choughed3072 UK policy caused the failure of ONE SINGLE CROP to lead to famine DESPITE A SURPLUS OF CALORIES BEING GROWN IN IRELAND. Thats a man made famine.

[@Christian_Prepper]

*The BRITISH CAUSED HOLOCAUST of 1943:* *"The authors quoted so far agree that the colonial administration's (BRITISH/ENGLISH) policies drove inflation which was one of the MAIN CAUSES of the famine."* 18:35 *"The severity of the famine had been made disastrous by the government's (BRITISH/ENGLISH) intentional lack of action."* 19:57 & 22:18

[@himanshusingh-er7dd]

Wiston Churchill was a demon ......

[@nickjung7394]

The Indian subcontinent is free because of him. What do you think would have happened if Japan had won? Read about "the rape of Nanking"

[@nickjung7394]

@@CombatHD3 well, you will have your wish before long. China has its eye on the whole subcontinent as does the more militant elements of Islam who want a return to Mutual rule. With your name, I wish you luck. Incidentally, Indian independence had been a foregone conclusion in the early 1930s; WW2 delayed this with the full agreement of Congress. The Axis had nothing to do with it.

[@rishav_killerx6011]

@@nickjung7394 Indian subcontinent was free bcoz of Churchill??? LMFAOOO don't need to spread Fake History, The Other Politicians urge Churchill to leave India, Also Britishers cant Handle the Fights between Hindu and Muslims, so they made the Partition, The Britishers who did Divide and Rule by spreading hate now it's solved by Stupid Partition

[@larryhovekamp4318]

My uncle served in the US Army at the China-Burma-India Theater during the war. He was warned to avoid beggars- there were so many- lest they mob and attack you for your money. They were starving and he saw it. The miracle for him was that he survived disease and the drugs to treat them, the fierce fighting against crack Japanese troops, the insects and leeches and infighting with the supposed Allies. By the time Allied forces reached the China border, he was shot in the shoulder and his war was over. He awaken a week later in the other side of then India, in a hospital in Karachi.

[@larryhovekamp4318]

The official and scholarly analyses of the causes of the Bengal famine smell like the excuses made of the Irish famine a century earlier: wet weather, plant fungus, overpopulation, yadda yadda et cetera. But as with Ireland, the British overlords had the means and resources to alleviate the disaster in India and didn't for "logistical necessity". Both disasters underscored British hostility to its colonized populations with official policy.

[@arandomyoutubeuser_____8930]

I do appreciate your videos, as they tend to go into history that's not widely known/taught. I had never heard about this until now. I know you're going to get a ton of these, but I hope you do consider doing a video on The Holodomor in Ukraine. 1932-1933. I visited the museum in Kyiv, and it was sobering to see the endless names of victims and hear the tolling of the bell for so many victims.

[@yt.personal.identification]

I need to know more about this.

[@ivannadtochiev1849]

Yep, that woul be a good one.

He'd get his KZbin channel deleted if he covered that.

[@DesiGalCrochet]

I'm fairly certain he's already done a video about the Holodomor on one of his other channels. Edit: I just realized how old this video (And therefore the comments) are. Presently I know that a video about this topic does exist, with Simon as the host. What I am unsure about is when it was released. But that's almost irrelevant because one thing you can say about all of Simon's videos - They stay relevant and the research that goes into them rarely has to be updated. I wish the larger news outlets were as rigorous about facts as Danny and Simon and the rest of his team are!

[@ileaird]

You guys are the highlight to the end of my work day! Thank you for helping us stay educated mate!

[@prettypuff1]

The more I listen to this kind of content, more I realize how much American education has failed me

[@scottkrater2131]

Can you explain why British colonial history would be covered in an American history class? At High school level and lower? Should have gone to college.

[@shannahkristin9223]

Very well done! Thank you for presenting this in a well-rounded, factual manner.

[@danielhavoc889]

Norman Borlaug was my great Uncle, and it's always interesting to hear his name. I actually visit his wife nearly every time I'm at my grandparents on my mother's side, as they still live in the same town. She's one hell of a woman, still living in her own house, largely without help. My grandparents are the only real help, but they are more of friends than aids, and visit basically weekly.

[@52_Ronin]

Quite surprising

[@gretareinarsson7461]

In as far as it was possible to lessen or prevent the effects of the famine, the BE/UK bares the load of responsibility. The horrors of empires overwhelms their greatness. Has UK ever apologised or admitted responsibility?

[@ianmorris7485]

Whilst there is little doubt that the hoarding of food by the colonial authorities exacerbated the issues, would it be fair to say that this sad event was the combination of a perfect storm of events? The loss of a traditional source of wheat grain from Burma, the general issues caused by World War 2, the cyclone and heavy rains impacting food production, the rampant inflation... so many things that singly would probably not have been a problem, but collectively severely impacted the Bengal region and the many impoverished living there.

[@SmashBrosAssemble]

Churchill did do unsavoury things but he’s not a bad person because of all the good that he did, he saved the free world & our very way of life.

[@SeparadoresAtecon]

The initial tax hike from the governor and the inflation generated by the central bank, is plus the impossibility of trade with Burma due to ww2, those are for me the main reasons

[@Aldarinn]

Hello Simon. Greetings from Bengal, India. Thank you ever so much for covering this. People all over the world rarely hear of Churchill's handiwork in our neighborhood. I remain an ardent fan of your channels, please keep it up!

[@pensacola2015]

Handiwork? Did you actually watch the video and understand the nuances

[@Aldarinn]

@@pensacola2015 My ancestors understood the nuances on a very personal level. Pretty sure I need your feedback for nothing at all.

[@pensacola2015]

@@Aldarinn In that case, why don't you say the contents of the video are incorrect, or are you hiding behind the skirt of faux anger to illicit the ownership of a weak argument. Seems fashionable to wholly blame one individual during a global war, as opposed to recognising the multitude of complex factors that contributed to the ghastly famine. I'm pretty sure I don't need your advice about having more than one thought at the same time to take a measured approach.

[@Aldarinn]

@@pensacola2015 Well we do not need each other and that's only good. For all your babble the UK is becoming a third rate economy just as it deserves to be. Maybe India can loan it some money if the broth starts getting too cold for them.

[@vatsal7640]

​​​@@Aldarinnuhh... He didn't blame Churchill for it. As mentioned in the video, the famine had many reasons. Maybe you should cool your mind and come back later??

[@Biodyn3758]

Churchill is the culprit behind this ‘famine’ . Famine is an understatement, as it was man made and that man was Churchill, PM at the time. His remarks about the people dying there are despicable ‘A sturdy Greek is better than a starving Indian’ alluding to the war… What a hero eh?

[@SureshSingh-ev2ki]

Bengal Famine and Bangladesh Separation (East Pakistan-1971) are two suppressed issues in Geopolitics. Bollywood does neither have the balls to produce films on these issues nor they have close to reality. I must say somebody from Hollywood should depict this at least in cinematic reality. I am enthusiastically waiting for someone will make a movie showing the truth of these two tragic histories...Thank You

[@3-Kashmir]

Seems you don't have no balls to kid. Your here talking like a indian women that wants to get her drama fix! And do you know cinematic reality is anything but reality, don't you know hollyweird is nothing more then an illusion and anything but the truth or I take it bollywood got you confused?!

[@simtexa]

"If more than one thing may be true, more often than not both are."

[@andreaslermen2008]

Another first class video about a forgotten part of history. I learned only about it a few years ago, when I read through one of the newer books about WW2 (I think it was "All hell let loose") Not much of a controversial here. Besides that it was forgotten for so long, treated like a WW2 collateral damage. Thank you for bringing this up.

[@twocvbloke]

Even when all evidences points to one definitive reason, the politicians will still argue the toss and blame everyone but their own...

[@hop-skip-ouch8798]

I mean, they became politicians for those very reasons

[@SirDrakeFrancis]

what reason ?

[@josephrusso4828]

@@SirDrakeFrancis That they exacerbated the already suboptimal conditions and contributed to the problem.

[@ArghyaDas44]

Simon got it wrong at 5:05 Huq was actually a Muslim.

[@marksnow7569]

@J S To complicate things still further, disputes among Muslim political groups about the possible status of Bengal after all-but-promised Independence may have been a factor in the democratically elected Bengal legislature's poor handling of the crisis.

[@chriswall27]

Jesus Simon, brave man for doing this video! My view as a UK person who has spent a little time in West Bengal where this topic came up often is that no matter the causes ultimately the UK Government was responsible for India's governing so it has to be "our" fault if blame needs to be assigned. ...not to excuse the UK because I think this was a tragedy that is not discussed enough in the west but it was war time and horrors happened everywhere, my grandfather was based in Peshawar, West Bengal and Burma(now Myanamar) during WW2 and was captured by the Japanese so I do have a very little understanding how bad it was there, thanks Simon for bringing some attention to this relatively unknown story.

[@yehlamhaa]

Tell me something Chris.. How come a land so fertile, fed by mighty rivers, Hundreds of small tributaries went to Drought... For your argument sake lets take crop failure was one of the cause, but how come Food was not imported from UP, another fertile Northern Province of India famous for Rice/Wheat and Pulse... or Punjab Province, the most irrigated lands at those time.. The British Administration did a scorched earth policy, Panic spread all over Bengal, Traders hoarded food to shot up the price. They even destroyed food to increase the Price, The Administration watched it and did nothing. Grass root level stories of famine is there in Bengal.. if possible try to read it and then make a Joke about responsibility...

[@chriswall27]

@@yehlamhaa Where was my joke? I ask you to get one of your reasonable friends to read what I wrote and see if they think I am someone already more than sympathetic and also I said no matter the reason it was the UK's fault as they should have managed the situation as any government would for their people. Anyway I am not engaging with you any further because you clearly just want to rant at an English person. Have a nice day and be safe.

[@chriswall27]

@D2 E2 Sadly you are right but this was not a war crime unless you think it was Japans fault.

[@chriswall27]

@D2 E2 Another person who is reading what I wrote and making your own conclusions, yes of course it was the British Empire but it was being led by the UK Government but if you want to think that is me trying to deny it then you are a prat. Can you not see that I am someone who agreed with you but you are still a prat because you cannot see that, I know your type, you have the opportunity to speak behind a computer monitor to an "englishman" so you vent, click on my channel, I love India!!! Actually don't, I'd rather close minded people didn't look at my channel, have a nice day!

[@chriswall27]

@D2 E2 Bless your cottons, I did not blame Japan, I suggested that if as you said it was a war crime then either you think India was at war with the UK or it was Japans fault, am I wrong to make that conclusion from what you said? I am not triggered by you, you are funny because when I wrote the original post I knew I would get someone like you commenting. You let yourself down sadly. Have a nice day.

[@homerohomero5563]

You should talk about North Korea's famine too, which I think you may have briefly touched in your DMZ video. Love all your channels, keep it up!!

[@anibodyme2474]

I love this!!! I've been listening to him for quite some time now and he is a great factual story teller.

[@DD-cg1tm]

How can Susannah Herbert claim to only just be finding out about her family's role in this famine? I dont buy it.

[@helpmeget1ksubswith1videop72]

May good fortune be part of you today and tomorrow. Lovely month!

[@saifchowdhury3581]

All 4 of my grandparents lived through that era in Chittagong. My maternal grandmother was a kid but the rest 3 were young adults. Then they lived through the 1971 liberation war. I don't think I will have the mental capacity to go through things like these and then go on to live a happy life. Can't imagine the horrors they have suppressed in their memories! Well, the local and British officials had had stored a lot of crops in 1942 which they did not release in 1943 to the common people.

[@scotts.2624]

Bravo you succeed in delving into the dark corners of humanity and bring them to light. This is a favorite chanel.

[@jakobarsement8266]

Dude your concise and sleek format is so easy to engage with. I prefer you to the Green brothers.

[@TheMrCougarful]

Well done, and in good taste for a difficult subject.

[@y_ffordd]

There was a cyclone in late 42 that destroyed a rice harvest, followed by a blight on rice in 43, although the rice yield was only 5% less than norm and more than 1941. There was no change to wheat imports. But as the japanese invaded Burma, the Nawab, regional governor, decided to prepare for war, printing money to pay for it, this caused inflation, rice went up in cost x3 but worker wages remained the same so they couldn’t afford food. A famine was predicted, people had to sell land, goods, children, prostitution to buy food. Those who grew rich from war preparations and other wealthy types bought more food, hoarded rice which went up in price. As a result many starved, but this got under control in 1943, but then epidemics took hold such as typhoid and cholera which killed more even when there was food. Normally Burma would provide aid with more wheat, but they couldnt as they were occupied by Japan. The British arranged for Canada and Australia to supply some relief, but it was not enough, Churchill prioritised the war effort to feed troops in Greece/Italy, he did ask Roosevelt to help but the Americans refused as they prioritised war. If covid has taught us anything then government is to blame, war is the main factor preventing relief aid, both Churchill and Roosevelt as heads bear significant responsibility, but overall its Churchill and the British who have responsibility as they were informed of the famine regularly by the consulate, they could have intervened with negotiations with the Nawab and other imperial representatives, at the very least there should have been emergency measures with the rice/food distribution, but the British ignored the problem or said they could do nothing. Also Churchill had a belief in British superiority and it cant be ruled out that it wasnt just negligence on his part. The British government should issue an apology for handling the situation badly or at least acknowledge their role in the famine and teach it in british schools, just like the germans teach about holocaust, we will never learn from our mistakes otherwise.

[@avibhagan]

5% less than 1942 & 11% more than 1941, and nobody died in 1941 👀. There are reports of full carts of rice and wheat being escorted through the cities to the ports. Cotton, leather and ghee exports remained constant. The reason for the famine is because the British didn't value the lives of the people. They did the same thing to Ireland. If Indians were in charge, the situation would have been better managed. The same British government prevented Famine in France, at the exact same time the Bengal famine was happening. 😢

[@SteveSmith-os2nn]

No mention of Winston Churchill? The culprit.

[@hatchxable]

What? I haven't watched the video. He really didn't mention Winston Churchill? ....oh well.. it's the west and their propaganda after all.

[@amritpanda7947]

Thanks man .it feels nice to be have your voice heard

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

I first read that title as the beagle famine of 1943. I was thinking "poor Snoopy, wtf was Charlie Brown doing/thinking?"

[@HeilRay]

@NappyHeaded_ZeroCombs Thats nuts. PEANUTS

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

@NappyHeaded_ZeroCombs Ok GenZ'er. You obviously haven't heard of a comic strip, Peanuts in particular. Google it.

[@dpo2183]

Fantastic video, very informative and most importantly impartial 👍

[@mustafabayzid]

Great video!! Please make a video about Dhaka. Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩

[@darter9000]

Malthus didn’t blame the famine on the immorality of the poor? He certainly seemed to enjoy being a shield for the rich and powerful.