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The Congo After Leopold

Behind the Bastards

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The Dog Whip Is a Whip to Whip Dogs

Adolf Hitler carried a dog whip his entire life. All of the uranium used to make the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was mined in the Congo by people who are regularly whipped bloody. Belgium continued to use forced labor pretty much the entire time they were in charge of the Congo. They built one of the biggest hospitals in Africa and established a really good infrastructure.

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