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  • cannache@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Can hardly blame them, pestilence and diseases are a genuine concern for any empire where armed forces have to move far distances over land or sea

    • rahmad@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Can definitely blame them… Several of the famines in their ‘empire’ were either engineered, caused through incompetence or arrogance, or ignored when preventable.

      Ref: Any of bengal’s several famines under British rule, frankly even after once you take Churchill into account.