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Top one is about Bengali Famine? Or the Irish one? Because I am sure you only meant one of those and forgot about the others.
My favourite (didn't make to top 5) is when UK betrayed Poland after WW2 and gave it to Soviets because - I shit you not, that was one of the arguments Churchill gave - they needed Polish soldiers in UK to repopulate peasant villages.
You're a fucking idiot
The Bengal famine was not even the largest British engineered famine in India.
Willing to learn about it more, as I only ever learned about Bengali one.
Are you fucking kidding with me? That is insane even for Churchill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Resettlement_Act_1947
According to the memoirs of one of the MPs who protested it (forgive me but I don't remember which one, there were like 25 of them), in a closed door session that was among arguments Churchill made.