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		mr_toad on Sept 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t ... > If there’s an archaeological record of anything as terrible as the Bengal famine The Mongol invasion of China, and the German invasion of the Soviet Union caused far more deaths.

kaesar14 on Sept 16, 2022 [–]

I wasn’t aware those places were in India, the subject of this exchange.

Entirely possible and supported by mainstream historians that the colonial regime did lead to a number of deaths around the same magnitude of both of those events though, fwiw.

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