CHURCHILL, STALIN AND MAO -- THREE CLASSIC CASES OF SAVAGERY IN PERPETRATING THE STARVATION OF MILLIONS

CHURCHILL, STALIN AND MAO -- THREE CLASSIC CASES OF SAVAGERY IN PERPETRATING THE STARVATION OF MILLIONS

Churchill, a British aristocrat, did exhibit the finer points of British aristocratic culture in his effecting the starvation of Bengal that cost the lives of 4.3 million Bengalis. Stalin, the exemplar of Bolshevik baboonery, to quote Churchill in ever so slightly altered linguistic terms, force-starved 7 million Ukranians to death, and Mao, through his misadventures in an attempted rapid industrialisation of his country, caused the death of 45 million Chinese through starvation. One wonders how Churchill's aristocratic culture was in any way superior to Stalin and Mao's rough peasant culture when it came to inflicting death on millions that simply mattered not. While Stalin and Mao, to use bad logic, may be excused on the count of their supposed lack of culture relative to Churchill of eminent intellectual and artistic attainments, Churchill cannot be so absolved. So, what would one be tempted to infer about the refinements of British imperial and aristocratic culture about which the British Prime Minister was so vainly conscious of?

Written by Sugata Bose