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Episode 92: SS Leopoldville

Well There‘s Your Problem

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The Congo Free State

In 19 o four, a guy named roger casement reported on all the horrific crap that was going on down there. The report when it came out, was so bad that there was actually a lot of international pressure on the belgians to do something about thes rigt. In 19 o eight, they formally annexed the congo free state, and it became the belgian congo. They took away leopold's little, you know, to modosector a Rsedaside, setye, exactly aand in this sort of marginally improved conditions in the country. But always the same people were in charge. A lot of the same economy was there. Maybe

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