Aleksandr Bushkov
Kop'ya i pulemety
Unabridged
15 hours 37 minutes
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Kogda vy vdrug zadaetes' voprosom, pochemu odna strana bogataya, a vtoraya ne ochen', vsegda obrashchaytes' k istorii. Angliya segodnya – ochen' bogataya strana. I mozhno bez vsyakogo preuvelicheniya skazat', chto kapital byl vozdvignut na kostyah i krovi. Promyshlennaya derzhava nomer odin, slovno na pitatel'nom rastvore, vyrosla na desyatkah millionah (imenno tak!) trupov indiycev. A ved' mogla ostat'sya tret'erazryadnoy evropeyskoy derzhavoy pri drugom oborote dela, esli by ne podnyalas' na nagrablennyh milliardah zolotyh i na millionah trupov. «Ravniny Indii beleyut kostyami tkachey», – peredaval v 1834 g britanskiy general-gubernator lord Uil'yam Bentink v London. Iz Bol'shoy Istorii ne vycherknut' etih slov, kak by staratel'no mnogie na Ostrove Koshmarov ne pytalis' ih zabyt'…
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