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Algeria & France: Untangling Past and Present

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The Algerian War of Liberation

Youti is out a number of the key aspects of that relationship, and I want to dig a little bit more into the people in the history element. Can we talk a little bit about the history? Macron is one of the first president, maybe the first French president, to actually come into this with a willingness to look a little bit into the past. The conquest took 50 years from 1830 to 1850. Half the population emigrated, always killed or disappeared with disease. And then the free of the century built in Algeria basically for the French and for the Italian and Spanish colonizers. So it's a very complicated history in this text time.

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