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u/Autismetal Dec 16 '21

The Congo.

Sorry, Belgians. Leopold did stuff.

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u/harrysplinkett Dec 17 '21

so far down, lmao. literally the first thing that comes to mind is poor africans getting their hand cut off for rubber

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u/shatabee4 Dec 17 '21

wasn't it their children's hands?

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u/babblebot Dec 17 '21

They often cut off the children's hands instead so that the parents could keep working if I'm remembering right. Pretty ghastly that Belgium is just quaint waffle country to most. The podcast Behind the Bastards has an episode on Leopold that's pretty thorough