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In the past, I've seen people cite Stalin, Pol Pot etc as if they are self-explanatory refutations of #socialism. Well, for future reference ...
"it is clear that somewhere in the vicinity of 100 million people died prematurely at the height of British colonialism. This is among the largest policy-induced mortality crises in human history. It is larger than the combined number of deaths that occurred during all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China, North Korea, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, and Mengistu’s Ethiopia"
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians
PS this is not to defend Pol Pot and the rest: I do not.