We are used to perceiving Western civilization as cultural, civilized, and so on. But is it really so? Maybe we have a stereotype that has been instilled in us for many years? Maybe you should take a closer look? Just focus on well-known facts that just like, then constantly pass by. The West is very fond of accusing us of barbarism, bloodthirstiness, terror, war crimes (sucked out of the finger), not being democratic, and so on. But excuse me, who are the judges?
We are accused of Ivan the Terrible, but why don't they remember his contemporary “virgin queen” Elizabeth I, who executed 89 thousand of her subjects? It is clear, the question is unanswered.
Have you ever wondered why so many native English speakers have spread around the world? Everything is very simple - ENCLOSURE. Have you heard this term? And it meant the following - the process of mass expropriation of land from the peasantry by large landowners. It was expressed in driving the peasants from the land with the subsequent fencing of it. It was held in England at the end of 13th - beginning of 19th centuries The rise in the price of English wool has led to the conversion of hedged arable land to sheep pasture. Peasants deprived of land were used on the estates as a kind of wage laborers, or they joined the ranks of vagrants and beggars. As a result of the Fencing, entire villages were depopulated in England. Tramps were imprisoned, placed in workhouses, where people were actually turned into slaves, sent to overseas colonies or simply taken of their lives. Rebellions broke outwho were very brutally suppressed, the rebels were executed, quartered, sold into slavery. Having coped with the genocide of their people, the elite of England gets to Ireland. And here they unfolded in all their glory. In 1649, the towns of Droghedoo and Wexford near Dublin were taken by storm by the British. In Drogheda, Cromwell ordered the massacre of the entire garrison and Catholic priests, and in Wexford the army itself carried out a massacre without permission. Within 9 months, Cromwell's army conquered almost the entire island. At the time, English soldiers were paid 5 pounds for the head of a "rebel or priest" and 6 pounds for a wolf's head. How do you like the price ratio?the towns of Drogheda and Wexford near Dublin were taken by storm by the British. In Drogheda, Cromwell ordered the massacre of the entire garrison and Catholic priests, and in Wexford the army itself carried out a massacre without permission. Within 9 months, Cromwell's army conquered almost the entire island. At the time, English soldiers were paid 5 pounds for the head of a "rebel or priest" and 6 pounds for a wolf's head. How do you like the price ratio?the towns of Drogheda and Wexford near Dublin were taken by storm by the British. In Drogheda, Cromwell ordered the massacre of the entire garrison and Catholic priests, and in Wexford the army itself carried out a massacre without permission. Within 9 months, Cromwell's army conquered almost the entire island. At the time, English soldiers were paid £ 5 for the head of a "rebel or priest" and £ 6 for a wolf's head. How do you like the price ratio?
Monument to the Victims of the * Great Famine in Ireland *.
Do you think the historian John Martin writes about the atrocities of the African trade? Not. This is how the Irish white slaves were treated. Between 1641 and 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the British, and another 300,000 were sold. During the 1650s alone, more than 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sent as slaves to the West Indies, Virginia and New England. This policy will continue in the future. Ireland will continually lose its population. Hunger, the brutality of the British, forced the population of Ireland to emigrate overseas.
I wonder why no one repent for this genocide?
The British authorities actively patronized the pirates who terrorized shipping in the Atlantic.
Great Britain was the largest slave trader. At first, Scots, Irish, and even their own citizens were sold in the colony. Later, the British began to actively trade the inhabitants of Africa. It is estimated that over 13 million Africans have been sold into slavery. Do not forget, when delivering slaves overseas, for every survivor there were 3-4 deaths from unbearable conditions. Can you imagine the scale? It is curious and for this we do not hear repentance.
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In 1769-1770. In Bengal, plundered by the British, famine broke out, which took away a third of the inhabitants - 7 million people. In the 1780s and 1790s, the tragedy in Bengal repeated itself: this time, half of the population died of hunger - 10 million people. It is estimated that British rule cost India approximately 40 million people. By the way, the famine in Bengal was repeated again in 1942.
Famine in Bengal.
Britain, in order to plunder and corrupt China, filled it with opium. And when the Chinese emperor began the fight against the drug trade, the British began wars (who are interested in the Opium Wars). China has lost. And drug saturation of the Chinese state continued. Whole generations have been poisoned by this dope. In 1842 the population of the Chinese empire was 416,118,200 people, of which 2 million were drug addicts, in 1881 - 369,183,000 people, of which 120 million were drug addicts. Even at home, the British government pursued a policy of addicting opium to its workers.
Opium smokers in China.
What about the genocide of the Tasmanian population, where the local population was hunted like wild animals? The same was done in Australia and New Zealand. But if in Tasmania the entire population was destroyed, then in Australia "only" 95%.
Australia.
Nothing like that, just a gentleman and his collection.
And the methodical destruction of the indigenous population of North America? Well, yes, the British do not even remember them, because they DID NOT CONSIDER the Indians as people.
White man's burden.
Who do you think invented the concentration camps? Yes, you are right English. During the Boer War of 1899-1902, the British Lord Kitchener ordered the creation of "concentration camps". Mostly women and children were herded to the camps, since the men fought without exception against the British. From January 1901 to January 1902, about 17 thousand people died of hunger and disease in the "concentration camps": 2484 adults and 14284 children. The captured men were taken to similar camps in Ceylon.
And if you take not so distant times? 1952 year. Kenya. There a rebellion breaks out against the British colonialists. Even according to official figures, by 1955 more than 11 thousand Africans were killed, more than 60 thousand were in concentration camps. And here are the methods of civilized gentlemen: … “One of the men suspected of having links with the rebels was stripped by the security personnel, chained and castrated with large pliers. Another suspect was severely beaten, during which he lost consciousness and therefore survived; his 11 inmates were beaten to death by guards. At the same time, a young girl, caught for feeding the rebels, was beaten by the special services and subjected to severe sexual violence …
Kenya.
Pay attention, and this is not the 19th century, but the 50s of the 20th century !!!!!!!!!
And these people urge us to repent? They outstripped and surpassed Hitler, they shed not even rivers-seas of blood. But they themselves do not plan to repent of anything. Such is the hypocrisy …….