I think it's absolutely reasonable to blame England for famines in Ireland and India, as well as blame Soviet style communism for famines in Ukraine and China.

I'm a (non Soviet style) communist, and it's frustrating to me to see both communist and capitalist posters say, "my side did nothing wrong, yours is the killer". Both communist and capitalist regimes have caused famine. We need to observe both and feel comfortable with the idea that even things we agree with sometimes do evil.

This should be obvious enough to not need pointing out, but at the time of the Bengal famine there was a world war in which Japan was invading Asia and Germany was invading Europe. Many of the things that exacerbated the Bengal famine were due to defensive measures designed to avoid even worse deaths if those invasions were successful.

In contrast, the famines in the USSR and PRC weren't caused by invasion. They were caused by the collectivization of agriculture for ideological reasons.

Ok tankie.