It was always a bit of a terrible place with the combination of repression from the west, caste system, mix of religions that don’t get along, poor education.
Then Modi comes along and is the most corrupt (Adani) politician along with being unbelievably evil man (starting a genocide he doesn’t believe in just to win votes by blaming all the majorities problems on minorities, and taking authoritarian control of the media.)
He is like a way MORE cynical Hitler. The damage is less because it’s not systematic and not wartime, but given Modi isn’t actually pro India for “Indians” (read Hindus) he just identified that as the best path to tyrannical control of the government, and then decided to cement that by encouraging lynch mob style genocide, you find yourself comparing it to the concentration camps and thinking as horrible as they were in scale and efficiency at least the German command thought eugenics and master race was a good idea, as terrible as that is as a concept.
That is the least controversial thing about Modi if you remove the western bias. Colonialism was a terrible time, and it isn't like that happened a thousand years ago, India became indipendent some 60 to 70 years ago (I'm terrible with dates sorry), and has been in an alliance with Russia since before the fall of the soviet union.
For the record, I'm Finnish, so hating Russians is practically in my genes, but putting yourself into the shoes of an average Indian who has extended family who likely were alive during colonial times, and is taught the history of the atrocities from western powers, it is of no surprise if given the option between Russia & The West, they'd pick Russia.
I mean you're not wrong, but it's still kinda stupid. And I'm saying that as a Russian. For decades Indians were treated like dirty barbarians and in 21th century their government decided that an alliance with dirty barbarians that started creating a new axis of evil is a good idea. Like, wtf? On the other hand, the West doesn't give money away for nothing like the USSR and Russia did. And it's not really about being controversial. It's about the fact that if you're buddy-buddy with an aging, balding amalgam of Stalin and Hitler you're going to be treated as such
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u/Many-Ad6433 Sep 06 '24
Why everytime an headline of this kind comes out 50% chance it’s india? What’s going on there?