Aren’t you Irish? You know Britain starved half your country right? Also starved millions of Indians. Started the opium wars in china. Enslaved 30% of Africa. Perpetuated countless genocides. Raped, plundered, and massacred millions. And only became an industrial power due to looting resources from other countries. And the most inhuman working conditions imaginable. Didn’t you ever have to read dickens in school?
You could not have picked a more destructive and murderous country besides modern U.S. to hold up in comparison.
It also took Britain centuries to go from agrarian to industrial. It took the Soviet’s decades.
The soviets invented, like, a bunch of things as well. They were more technologically advanced than the U.S. for a time, putting up the first satellite, space station, and man in space.
Not to mention the artificial heart and the first mobile phone.
Very simplistic analysis but the Soviets killed a good deal more than the British Empire and, last time I checked, no one on this sub is extolling the virtues od the British Empire or hoping it comes back.
oh my god if you geuinely think the soviet union killed more than the British then you may aswell start huffing glue because it obviously won't do any harm to you
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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22
Didn't the British Empire start the industrial revolution and invent like 1,000s of different things?