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The Red Paint on Leopold II
Episode 29
Published 5 years, 8 months ago
Description
Leopold II, King of the Belgians, was a man obsessed with the profits that came with colonization. Using smokescreens of charities and shell corporations, he claimed a private landholding 76x larger than his own nation, and unleashed decades of horror on the land's inhabitants.
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