@altar1968 Meades spent most of his television career prior to this in reminding the people who live in the UK to the social and political injustices, collective amnesias and strangeness of its past and present. So, why do you mention the Indian Mutiny ?
@Ultrasecond China is often overlooked when it comes to tyrannical totalitarian regimes, I mean does the UK & USA even care about the Tibetans or political dissidents or living conditions in general?
@WizardKing78 stalin used to be uncle joe, hitler was always just an austrian lunatic the nazi's were also more open about persecution, the USSR was more secretive about persecution
He doesn't deny that. He notes the irony of empire in his Victorian series where he notes the starving millions in the colonies and the streets of London whilst the elite stuffed themselves and locked themselves away in an Arts and Crafts fantasy land of 'old England', whatever that was.
So quick and so well written and presented also by Mr Meades. 📚☘️👏
This is a great documentary!
@altar1968 Meades spent most of his television career prior to this in reminding the people who live in the UK to the social and political injustices, collective amnesias and strangeness of its past and present.
So, why do you mention the Indian Mutiny ?
one is just a lot easier to measure than the other, not more humane
The BBC should run this again .
@Ultrasecond China is often overlooked when it comes to tyrannical totalitarian regimes, I mean does the UK & USA even care about the Tibetans or political dissidents or living conditions in general?
@TheAdmiral the irony
because history is written and interpreted by the victors i guess.
@WizardKing78 stalin used to be uncle joe, hitler was always just an austrian lunatic
the nazi's were also more open about persecution, the USSR was more secretive about persecution
This fellow should do a lecture about the countless millions murdered by the British Empire.
He doesn't deny that. He notes the irony of empire in his Victorian series where he notes the starving millions in the colonies and the streets of London whilst the elite stuffed themselves and locked themselves away in an Arts and Crafts fantasy land of 'old England', whatever that was.
@fdsdh1 No
It makes our alliance with russia at the end of the war much easier to swallow? Not that it's right.
or Capitalism, or...
I generally like meades’ stuff but the fallacies peddled here are unbelievable
you should, but it ends up just as bad, only it doesn't get better in 5 years
genius:)
and yea russias slipping back into revisionist history again:(
Perhaps they're both terrible, have you ever thought of that?