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The Congo After Leopold

Behind the Bastards

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Shit and the u.s.

In 1962 four retired french generals attempted to overthrow the government of france they captured algeres in the french colony of algerea but they failed to capture paris their coup was put down four days later. The goal of this coup was to stop charles de gall from freeing algerea he wanted to decolonize at least that french colony this angered the french far right and it also freaked out the cia according to this theory alan dolas the same cia director who backed the coups of lemamba and ande uh was scared algerea would go communist if it was let go which is exactly the reasoning we had for killing lemamba so according

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