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gozur88 on Sept 22, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The East India Company, the original corporate rai...

>There are still quiet a lot of statues of him.

That I find kind of odd. His treatment of the locals in the Belgian Congo is sort of the gold standard for imperial oppression.

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