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[-] Pofski@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Leopold is celebrated as a hero? After what he did in Congo? In all these years, I haven't met a single Belgian who doesn't think he was a monster.

[-] Pofski@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Again. That was not the thing that was asked.

that's what the post is, and even though no one really celebrates Leopold, he's not given the same popular hatred as Hitler, and mostly remembered as one bad person in history, like colonialism wasn't that bad, he was just a bad colonial

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