By taking advantage of the worldwide attention afforded to its diplomatic activities nowadays to raise maximum awareness about this issue of such sensitive importance for its Indian strategic partner’s people, the Russian Foreign Ministry essentially did them a favor out of true friendship.
The Russian Foreign Ministry reminded everyone of the UK’s colonial-era genocide of the Indian people in an official statement published on its website over the weekend “Regarding the real damage to the people of India caused by the British colonial policy”. They referenced last month’s article by Ben Norton titled “British empire killed 165 million Indians in 40 years: How colonialism inspired fascism”, concluding that it’s indeed an accurate tally and an underestimation if anything.
Intrepid readers should review both of the aforementioned sources if they’re interested in learning more about this subject that’s suppressed in the West, but casual observers of Russian foreign policy might be a little bit confused about why Moscow sought to raise awareness of crimes committed over a century ago. The present piece will therefore explain the real modus operandi behind the Russian Foreign Ministry’s latest statement about the UK’s colonial-era genocide of the Indian people.
Some might think that the motivation was to discredit the UK’s claims regarding its alleged role in supporting “democracy” across the world. This interpretation is based on the statement’s last two sentences declaring that “The figures cited in the article clearly show how the British got wealthier at the expense of India, how they exploited and caused the deaths of the local people, whom they deeply despised. The current London’s democracy games look cynical and toxic against this background.”
While subscribers to this view might therefore cynically conclude that this aim exposes Russia’s public awareness campaign as being driven by politically self-interested and therefore insincere motives, the fact of the matter is that the UK’s colonial-era genocide of the Indian people mustn’t ever be forgotten. After all, the needlessly premature deaths of such a large amount of people are crimes of unprecedentedly epic proportions. The victims at the very least deserve to eternally be remembered.
Having clarified that reason why it’s acceptable for anyone to reference those crimes at any time despite them having been committed so long ago, it’s now time to explain the larger context behind which Moscow just brought them up so as to understand its real motives. The Russian-Indian Strategic Partnership is now one of the primary accelerants of the global systemic transition to multiplexity for reasons beyond the scope of this analysis but which can be read about in detail in the preceding links.
Casual readers might also not know that President Putin praised the Indian people for their talent and drive last fall, which showed his deep appreciation of them. He knows that a country’s people are the key to its success, which is why India’s should be applauded for the role they’ve played in their country’s rapid rise in recent years, not to mention preserving the bond between their society and Russia all this time. It thus makes sense why he’d order his diplomats to pay tribute to their colonial-era victims.
That period of this globally significant Great Power’s history is regarded by the majority of its population as among its darkest ever for obvious reasons. Prime Minister Modi’s BJP, which returned to leading India in 2014 and still does into the present day, regularly reminds the 1.4 billion of its compatriots in whose name they serve about the crimes committed during this time. This is intended to ensure that the unprecedented number of victims is never forgotten since so many families lost someone dear to them.
By taking advantage of the worldwide attention afforded to its diplomatic activities nowadays to raise maximum awareness about this issue of such sensitive importance for its strategic partner’s people, the Russian Foreign Ministry essentially did them a favor out of true friendship. Simply put, the main motivation behind reminding everyone of the UK’s colonial-era genocide of the Indian people wasn’t to discredit that Western Great Power, but to reaffirm its close friendship with that South Asian one.
This interpretation therefore rubbishes the earlier mentioned speculation spewed by cynics who allege that this public awareness campaign was driven by politically self-interested and therefore insincere motives. The opposite is in fact true since this was a purely moral, apolitical, and selfless gesture of true friendship that was sincerely carried out to show that Russia won’t forget about those over 165 million of its India’s strategic partner’s people who perished over a century ago as a result of the UK’s genocide.
145 Million Indian deaths. Nobody in the MSM says a word about it. 6 million (?) Joolite deaths which we are DAILY reminded of with movies, newsreals and propaganda.
Hmmmmm. I wonder who the REAL racists are.