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0 pointsmoomin7mo ago0 comments

It’s something of a red herring. Britain got the largest slice of the Marshall Plan money, they just wasted it on things like trying to maintain the Empire. One thing you’d learn from the book is Germany definitely wasn’t in a good shape in 55.

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JackFr7mo ago

> they just wasted it on things like trying to maintain the Empire.

they just wasted it on things like nationalizing the coal, gas, electricity, rail, air transport and steel industries.

username3322117mo ago

Apart from the Suez crisis and the Rhodesian embargo was there any serious British attempt to maintain the empire after the second World War?

throaway54454547mo ago

Mau Mau, Malaya, Kenya

username3322117mo ago

Those were efforts at preventing British colonies from becoming Soviet colonies, weren't they?

There was no effort to keep either Kenya or Malaysia as British. In Malaysia, the war continued after independence.

throaway54454547mo ago

The entire effort by the British was to keep them as possessions. The wars continued after independence because non-communists took power.

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JackFr7mo ago

> they just wasted it on things like trying to maintain the Empire.

they just wasted it on things like nationalizing the coal, gas, electricity, rail, air transport and steel industries.

username3322117mo ago

Apart from the Suez crisis and the Rhodesian embargo was there any serious British attempt to maintain the empire after the second World War?

throaway54454547mo ago

Mau Mau, Malaya, Kenya

username3322117mo ago

Those were efforts at preventing British colonies from becoming Soviet colonies, weren't they?

There was no effort to keep either Kenya or Malaysia as British. In Malaysia, the war continued after independence.

throaway54454547mo ago

The entire effort by the British was to keep them as possessions. The wars continued after independence because non-communists took power.

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