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I will confess I always had the fantasy of a heist of the koh-i-noor. Since I am a mughal lol.
And yes the history is long and complicated. I would recommend the William Dalrymple book here. Its genuinely like reading the lord of the rings from the rings perspective. Incredible stuff.
Have you heard about the spate of thefts of chinese cultural artifacts years back? A whole bunch of musuems had sophisticated high end "thefts" where the only objects taken were things that had been looted from china by imperial powers. The common assumption was that the chinese state decided to take their stuff back.
YES I WAS LITERALLY POSTING THAT RIGHT NOW.
First I was gonna mention it in the comment section bit thought after this post people might like a whole post lol.
That's pretty fucking cool and the most antiimperialist communist thing they've done in my lifetime.
I genuinely don't believe the current government is that cool.
Be the change!