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• deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Churchill had little to do with it, other than not having enough shipping and having to prioritise feeding troops who were fighting Nazis at the time.

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  The provincial government never formally declared a state of famine, and its humanitarian aid was ineffective through the worst months of the crisis. It attempted to fix the price of rice paddy through price controls which resulted in a black market which encouraged sellers to withhold stocks, leading to hyperinflation from speculation and hoarding after controls were abandoned. Aid increased significantly when the British Indian Army took control of funding in October 1943

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Any explanation for this one?

    theguardian.com/…/athens-1944-britains-dirty-secr…

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    • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh, are we gonna get into a pissing contest about which system of government has killed more people?

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, I was literally just wondering if you had an explanation for it

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  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    other than not having enough shipping and having to prioritise feeding troops

    That is a choice he made, not something that just happened, and it resulted in at least a million (likely much more) civilian deaths in their own territory.

    The provincial government

    Gee, I wonder who put the provincial government in charge in a British colony? 🙄

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    • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And why did he make that choice?

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