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Hmm yes accidentally contributing to a famine of 3.8 million casualties because of wartime shortages is comparable to the 60 to 70 million attributed to the guy that fucking started the war in the first place and also systematically executed 6 million of his own citizens and of neighboring countries and enslaved millions more.
Look I'm sure Churchill was a right wanker but the specific cultural ethnicities of dead people is not why Hitler is demonized more than him.
All Hitler did was apply European colonialism to Europe. not that different than what Europe was doing for centuries. that is a fact. Europe wasn't a group of good guys until bad Germany appeared. they were all busy with that colonial bullshit.
Are you telling me that the European led ethnic cleansing of the the Americas for territorial expansion isn't lebensraum?
I'm am definitely not trying to push nazi appologia by saying "they were all bad", just that we can't ignore the horrors those allied nations committeed as well. Hitler imported a lot of his racism from the US. it's always nations fucking the world, making the people suffer, then the victors painting themselves as heroes and beacons of civilization.
"accidentally contributing"
Imagine the food that you grew taken away from you to make rations for the same colonial forces that have subdued your people, and call it an accident.
Civilians of a fertile land in a no-war zone were starved to death, arguably one of the most terrible way to go. I am not even going to quote the racist letter in reply to when he was informed of the starving people. Need I point out that Churchill is not universally vilified in the UK? So yes this meme does make sense, just not in the way you think.