Comments by "Owain Shebbeare" (@shebbs1) on "Indira Gandhi: Leading India for Fifteen Years" video.

  1. Oh yeah, there were quite a few policies of hers that were utterly shameful.
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  2. Vastly different cultures, hard to compare.
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  3.  @fcukugimmeausername  It also has a bunch of Left-wing claptrap too, all vying to force agendas rather than facts. Damn glad I am Australian, and an adult as that latter means I escaped a lot of the PC revisionist history BS taught today, and the former means I have a better accent! 😁
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  4.  @shyamashyam391  Education was too hard, and too expensive: easier to snip the blokes. She didn't dare sterilise Muslims, for fear of mass riots. I am no admirer of hers, that's for sure.
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  5.  @Machtyn  I think most nation's history curricula are parochial, to at least some extent. Being Australian, we covered nothing of the Americas, most of Europe or Asia in class in the 1980's.
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  6.  @Zenhumanist  True as, whenever it is suggested, those suggesting it tend to exclude themselves, family and often people of their political of cultural tribe. Look at the Climate Change Alarmists, such as Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio and David Suzuki, insisting that we mere plebs not breed and have tiny Carbon Footprints, but they breed and consume with abandon.
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  7.  @hedgehog1965uk  A good film though it did gloss over Gandhi's faults, creating a fairly innaccurate impression of him.
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  8. A fascinating man. Might not always agree with his beliefs and politics, but achieved a great deal in tumultuous times.
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  9. Meh, everyone's a critic.
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  10. Forced sterilisation is abominable, but fairly standard doctrine in various branches of socialist ideology.
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  11. Truth, at least as regards the strength, if not the policies.
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