In reply to Tim Chappell:
> As opposed to left wing totalitarian states like the GDR. Do remind me what the difference is.
Communism is fundamentally based on class struggle and not of national imperial revivalism.
> Once again, not my British empire. And not fascist, either. At most times and at most places it wasn't democratic. But that doesn't make it fascist.
The great African-American leader w.E.B. DuBois said in 1947-
"there was no Nazi atrocity-concentration camps,wholesale maiming and murder,defilement of women or ghastly blasphemy of childhood which Christian civilisation or Europe had not long been practising against colonial folk in all parts of the world in the name of and for the defence of a superior race born to rule the world."
In 1955 Aime Cesaire wrote (Christian Bourgeois)-
"What he cannot forgive Hitler for is not the crime in itself,the crime against man,it is not the humiliation of man as such,it is the crime against the white man,the humiliation of the white man,and the fact he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria,the'coolies' of India and the 'niggers' of Africa."
when Hitler wanted to show the SS how to rule an inferior race he showed them -'Lives of a Bengal Lancer'.
Hitler said -" What India was for England Russia will be for us".
Churchill was put down by one of his ministers during WW2 for having a -
"Hitler like attitude toward Indians"
Churchill called them a "Foul race" who were "protected by their mere pullulation from the doom that is their due"
Jomo Kenyatta who is the father of Kenyan independance compared -"the British fascist colonialists treatment of Africans to that of the jews by the Nazis"
In the 18th century alone their were 119 recorded wars in the cause of the British empire and 72 in Victoria's reign.
The constant state of war was necessary to expand this colonial empire, maintain it's grip and protect it's occupied territories from it's indigenous populations as well as other imperial rivals.Britain's domination of such a vast amount of these conquered peoples and their resources would force competing imperialists to look elsewhere.Stimulating a process that would eventually lead to world war.
The British lancet in 1865 printed that the natives in British colonies had to be-
"constantly kept down with a rod of iron or slowly exterminated"
An ex Black and Tan soldier working as a policeman in palestine in the 1930's stated that-
"Running over an Arab is the same as a dog in England except we do not record it"
In India before the end of the world war against fascism a British officer boasted of having "Jolly fun" as he "Shot down 24 niggers himself" during a nationalist demonstration.
Sir Huggins,PM of Rhodesia said in the 30s-
"It is time for the people in England to realise that the white man in Africa will never accept the African as an equal"
Whilst we took the food from Ireland and the population was reduced by 1/2 by starvation some limited charitable relief was organised but The Times would question this by fearing it would impede Ireland's moral progress.
Just as Hitler envisaged Lebenstraum in the East we had iniciated this process all over the world many years before.
Colonel James Neil who executed 6,000 Indians himself at Allahabad after the suppression of the INM also burned Sepoys alive.
Lord Palmerston demanded that Delhi be erased from the earth completely just like Hitler toward Leningrad.
10s of thousands of Indians murdered while protesting for democracy.
Cambridge historian and expert Victor Purcell called British Gen.Templer's regime in Malaya "Quasi-fascist.
Kenya is a new thread in itself !
Bomber 'Harris' recommended dropping "a 250lb or 500 lb bomb in every village that speaks out of turn" in Palestine.
In S.A. Kitchener's army obliterated 30,000 farms hundreds of villages as well as crops and livestock and put 160,000 women and children in concentration camps where 28,000 died,most of them children.
After the 1857 uprising indian political prisoners were tortured by british army doctors in the -
"New imperial gulag set up on the hot and impossibly humid Andaman Islands
William Dalrymple.
The aboriginals of Tasmania were wiped out completely.
the Aboriginals of Australia were almost wiped out.
There are more but the comparisons between the Nazis and the Uk imperialists in their racism to the point of genocide,suppression of democracy and forced rule,the barbaric treatment of pop,concentration camps,gulags,disregard for international law and ethnic cleansing speaks for itself.
> Vaclav Havel and Mikhail Gorbachev were TRUE revolutionaries
I suppose so if you want to completely destroy your own country ...then yes you are right!