• PugJesus@kbin.socialM
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    1 year ago

    The past is often fascinating - but we must also never forget its brutality. No colonial power of the turn of the century was saintly - all were brutal, and often genocidal. But the Belgians in the Congo beat everyone for sheer, pointless cruelty.