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It would not have mattered. As I already wrote, Russia produced 100,000 armoured vehicles in WWII. They outnumbered Germany in planes and tanks to a ludicrous degree. Nothing in this world could have helped Germany prevail over Russia in WWII. The war of the Wehrmacht was effective. However, when it came to sheer numbers in materiel the Russians just had a major edge. With or without Lend Lease btw.

Don't worry, Ghandi will get his due in the next thread, that half naked Fakir...

The did indeed move their industrial base eastwards. And still managed to produce 100,000 armoured vehicles during the war. An incredile feat.

Well, Churchill is British of course, but looking at it more carefully, the British administrators in India were trying desperately to alieviate the famine, it was Churchill who decided not to provide the food they repeatedly requested.

Very interesting character. He is the elder son of Lisa McNear (née Lombardi; 1945–2011), an artist from San Francisco,[60] and Dick Carlson (1941–), a former "gonzo reporter"[58][61][62] who became the director of Voice of America, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles Carlson's maternal great-great-great-grandfather was Henry Miller, the "Cattle King".[71] Carlson's maternal great-great-grandfather Cesar Lombardi immigrated to New York from Switzerland in 1860.[72][73] Carlson is also a distant relative of Massachusetts politicians Ebenezer R. Hoar and George M. Brooks. In 1979, Carlson's father married Patricia Caroline Swanson, an heiress to Swanson Enterprises, daughter of Gilbert Carl Swanson and niece of Senator J. William Fulbright. Carlson was briefly enrolled at Collège du Léman, a boarding school in the canton of Geneva in French-speaking Switzerland, but said he was "kicked out" Among liberals, Carlson's piece received praise, with Democratic consultant Bob Shrum calling it "vivid". John F. Harris of Politico would later remark on how Carlson was "viewed ... as an important voice of the intelligentsia" during this period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson

The famine was not exacerbated because the "British" wanted to keep the food for themselves, in fact the British administration of Bengal repeatedly and desperately asked the War Cabinet for food supplies. It was Churchill, who repeatedly refused these requests, contributing greatly to the death toll.

To be fair Tucker Carlson started out as a liberal and intellectual in the US.

Okay, let's look at how Churchill's men contributed to the Bengal famine in detail. It's an interesting story. Anticipating a Japanese invasion of British India via the eastern border of Bengal, the British military launched a pre-emptive, two-pronged scorched-earth initiative in eastern and coastal Bengal. Its goal was to deny the expected invaders access to food supplies, transport and other resources. First, a "denial of rice" policy was carried out in three southern districts along the coast of the Bay of Bengal – Bakarganj (or Barisal), Midnapore and Khulna – that were expected to have surpluses of rice. John Herbert, the governor of Bengal, issued an urgent[115] directive in late March 1942 immediately requiring stocks of paddy (unmilled rice) deemed surplus, and other food items, to be removed or destroyed in these districts The second prong, a "boat denial" policy, was designed to deny Bengali transport to any invading Japanese army. It applied to districts readily accessible via the Bay of Bengal and the larger rivers that flow into it. Implemented on 1 May after an initial registration period,[121] the policy authorised the Army to confiscate, relocate or destroy any boats large enough to carry more than ten people, and allowed them to requisition other means of transport such as bicycles, bullock carts, and elephants.[122] Under this policy, the Army confiscated approximately 45,000 rural boats,[123] severely disrupting river-borne movement of labour, supplies and food. Beginning as early as December 1942, high-ranking government officials and military officers (including John Herbert, the Governor of Bengal; Viceroy Linlithgow; Leo Amery the Secretary of State for India; General Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India,[217] and Admiral Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Commander of South-East Asia[218]) began requesting food imports for India through government and military channels, but for months these requests were either rejected or reduced to a fraction of the original amount by Churchill's War Cabinet. The colony was also not permitted to spend its own sterling reserves, or even use its own ships, to import food. When Viscount Archibald Wavell replaced Linlithgow as Viceroy in the latter half of 1943, he too began a series of exasperated demands to the War Cabinet for very large quantities of grain.[227] His requests were again repeatedly denied, causing him to decry the current crisis as "one of the greatest disasters that has befallen any people under British rule, and [the] damage to our reputation both among Indians and foreigners in India is incalculable" Similarly, Madhusree Mukerjee makes a stark accusation: "The War Cabinet's shipping assignments made in August 1943, shortly after Amery had pleaded for famine relief, show Australian wheat flour travelling to Ceylon, the Middle East, and Southern Africa – everywhere in the Indian Ocean but to India. Those assignments show a will to punish." in late 1943, entire boatloads of girls for sale were reported in ports of East Bengal.[310] Girls were also prostituted to soldiers, with boys acting as pimps.[311] Families sent their young girls to wealthy landowners overnight in exchange for very small amounts of money or rice An unknown number of children, some tens of thousands, were orphaned.[316] Many others were abandoned, sometimes by the roadside or at orphanages,[317] or sold for as much as two maunds (one maund was roughly equal to 37 kilograms (82 lb)),[318] or as little as one seer (1 kilogram (2.2 lb))[319] of unhusked rice, or for trifling amounts of cash. Sometimes they were purchased as household servants, where they would "grow up as little better than domestic slaves".[320] They were also purchased by sexual predators. Altogether, according to Greenough, the victimisation and exploitation of these women and children was an immense social cost of the famine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

Yes, 7000 tanks. The Russians built 100,000 armoured vehcles themselves. Lend lease was mostly useful for the railways and truck transports. But for the actual battlefield the Russias did a great job to make their own weapons.

Indeed, I had put the full link with causes in a post above, so people can read up if they so wish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

I've noticed this too, buses of tourists routinely land in Charoen Charoen market now, of all places. I suppose the visa easing has an impact.

Well this is in the link about the Bengal famine, the British adopted a scorched earth policy to try and ensure the enemy had no food. They contributed significantly to the famine on various levels. In terms of purpose, did Churchilll know there was famine? Yes, he did, he was informed by his own colonial administration who pleaded with him to release supplies stored in front of the Indians' noses. Churchill, for a long time, refused. Did this contribute the death toll, of course, and Churchill would have been aware that was the case.

She was a fine looking female once, many years ago. Who'd have thought...

Are you his daughter? Hahahahahahahahaha....

To see what these men accomplished, the things they went through is beyond comprehension. It seems almost superhuman, and one can hardly envisage a generation of today capable of going through what they went through.

Manpower and materiel. Quite so. The Wehrmacht killed 6 Russians for every German soldier killed, but you can't win war on points like that.

It would be nice to control the TV by voice, absolutely.

Aesthetically Thai faces and bodies are amont the best in SE Asia, though sometimes the more voluptous Filipina or Indonesian girl will have a beauty of her own as well. Basically, in every country there are beautiful women and good food. From Africa, the Caribbean to Europe, South American to Asia. No exceptions.

Oh absolutely, it's highly subjective, I'm just giving my perspective, there will be people for whom emotional connection, domestic service, intellectual connection is more important and of course good luck to them. I could not agree more that the empathy for the Thai perspective is very valuable. And all women I have been with have enriched my understanding and experiences, so again, could not agree more.

Every foreigner allowed to live in Thailand should feel that way. I still think Thailand is as close to paradise as we will get.

That's indeed what I'm doing. I greatly appreciate Thai women and the fun side they bring to the table.

Who wouldn't be, nice people, nice food, nice holiday options, powerful passport, just a shame about the worldwide taxation.

True enough, Thai women stay younger looking for longer, but then it all comes at once. There is a great choice for relationships, but the pitfalls are huge, there are some real criminals out there. But that does not mean you should settle for a 50 year old who does the washing up either. If you go the relationship route it should be someone with whom you connect on many levels, who you really like to be with and who enriches your life. If you wake up next to her and think "My God, that face is a shocker"...that's not a recipe for happiness in my kitchen.

Yes, it is odd, both can call up Youtube and close it. Even play an open video. But to find and select a specific video is not possible. I am hopeful they will fix this in due course.

Indeed, to me the real shocker is how India has surpassed the US in terms of steel, US is in third place now. But America is still the 2nd largest manufacturing nation in the world with tremendous resources. It's not all doom and gloom for America, even if other nations have surpassed it.