Expenditure on social insurance.
(in millions of roubles)
1928 193$ 1941 <plan)
1,058 6323 9098
1014 1920 1938 1930
Theatres .. .. 133 .. 702 787
Beds in hospitals .. 175.5 246.8 672 (thousands)
Doctors .. .. 19785 63162 110,000
ILS.S.R. in twenty years has almost come upto
the level of UK. and U.S.A. India has been doomed
to darkness. Why? Because we are not our own
masters.
HUNGER AND WHY?
The claim is made that Britain has given peace to
India. Has she? If she disarmed us, it was to see that
exploitation was not resisted by us. If she introduced
law and order, it was to train up a large Indian Police
force under British officers whose principal function
was to keep India safe for Britain; their protection
had, more often than not, to be purchased by the peo-
ple by bribery on an almost universal scale. Our will
to resist, even in self-defence or in defence of our
property,— which is considered sacred—has been dis-
troyed.
It is further claimed that Britain gave us modern
education. This is scarcely a place to discuss the qua-
lity of education which the British has given us. But
broadly speaking in Pre-British days, the leaders of
society consisted of men devoted to learning, teaching
and religious instruction; of men who formed the mi-
litary aristocrasy, small and big; of men who traded or
formed the artisan class. The British destroyed the
social organisation completely and created by their
support only two classes of instruments.
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