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The Congo After Leopold

Behind the Bastards

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We've Got a Hand in the Congo State

In 1954 we backed an overthrow of their democratically elected government and then decades later we backed essentially another civil war that led to a genocide. The violence of which is still continuing in the kind like all of this cia fuckery um is still very much with us in the world. i initially planned to just do this episode about mabuto but the more i learned about lemamba and what had been done to overthrow him i felt like this is a necessary inner stittle story.

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