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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
What would Ghandi think?  |
I don't care what Gandhi thinks. He does not rank high on my list of adorable celebs.
And mind you: if Nehru wouldn't have stopped his suicidal romanticism about agricultural policy and the rewards of simple village life (yeah, wonderful it is) as he fantasized it to be, 4.5 million and maybe even more Indians would have been killed in famines due to Gandhi's disconnected fantasies, and his name would be mentioned in one breath with the name of Stalin, whose agricultural experiments and mismanagement alone killed between 3.5 and 14.5 million Russians, depending on the historian you ask about Stalin's farming genius.
Save me from Gandhi and the likes. He was lucky a guy that he dealt with the civilized Brits. If needing to confront Saddam or Hitler or Tamerlan or Rome for most of its reign, he would not have survived even the first day of his protest, and we would not even know his name nowadays. His luck lies in that the British already had a bad conscience, one way or the other, and already had a feeling of that they were somewhat out of place in India.
Or do you recall the face of the last Tibetan monk burning himself in "protest" against the Chinese?
Too much romanticism and transfiguration in these things. Gandhi. Theresa. Che. Save me.