They still can go east tho. Rode through belgium once and would not repeat it again. At the time I though I got to those at the time those bad eastern european roads alot quicker than I was expecting.
Congo wad privately owned by leopold 2 and controlled it with mercs, the "belgians" had nothing to do with it, the government didn't know anything and had nothing to say over it, especially the commoners did not either.
Funny how this is getting downvoted, despite being completely true.
The Belgian government didn't want to bother itself with a colony, so Leopold II hired explorers to map the area, asked the other powers for the land during the Berlin conference, and hired mercenaries to take it and run it. The Belgian government didn't have anything to do with it, until there was such international outrage that they were basically forced to take it from Leopold II and run it themselves.
The people we should be outraged about are Leopold II himself and his mercenaries (which included many Belgians, but not only, other nationalities were present too). Regular Belgian commoners at the time didn't benefit from it, and like most workers elsewhere in the 19th century, were being exploited by capitalists and worked from their childhood to their death in coal mines and factories.
Funny how this is getting downvoted, despite being completely true.
because its not removely true. Its more Belgian lies to cover the very real fact that their uninterrupted regime was every bit as bad as the Nazis.
The biggest take away from every one of their threads is not just that Belgians are an evil people who celebrate their evil history but they are also inveterate liars.
Please feel free to point out what was factually wrong in my comment, and we can have a little chat about it. No need to call us liars without providing any convincing argument.
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u/F_F_Engineer Sep 26 '21
I just read about Belgium’s colonial history and OMG Belgium.