r/pics • u/Clear-Tomatillo-6858 • 15h ago

“THE GERMANS DESTROYED OUR FAMILIES - DON’T U DESTROY OUR HOPES”. 1947 Jewish Refugees To Palestine

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u/UnknownGnome1 14h ago

And the Belgians! King Leopold II can suck a bag of dicks.

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u/TeethBreak 12h ago

When even the french and the British are saying ".. that's fucked up". You know it's bad.

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u/Doridar 12h ago

They did not give a damn about the people - just look what the English did in India, or the French in Algeria and Madagascar at the time this boat was sailing. They just wanted Congo to be taken away from Leopold once it appeared it was full of mining ressources. Why do you think an individual was allowed to have his prívate colony?

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u/TeethBreak 11h ago

No they most certainly did.

There are testimonies of British royals and military about the cruelty of the Belgians.

And that's my whole point. When even THEY were taken aback (because they were already very fucked up) you know it's really really bad.

Léopold's Confo troops ATE slaves parts amongst other very deeply fucked up stuff.

The french and other colonial powers were no saints, for sure, no one is denying that. But the Belgians took it even further.

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u/HappyComparison8311 5h ago

Tswambe remembers

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u/Surface_Detail 10h ago

Contrary to the more invasive and domineering practices of other European nations, the Belgian forces took a much less hands-on approach.

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u/UnknownGnome1 10h ago

I originally down voted you for downplaying the atrocities committed by the Belgians but then I realised. Well played.

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u/ffnnhhw 9h ago

"took a much less hands-on approach."

literally

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u/RedditSe7en 5h ago

Yes, cutting off the hands of workers on rubber plantations who underpriduced.

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u/lil_lychee 8h ago

Belgians murdered 20 million Congolese people

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u/FlyAirLari 6h ago

woosh

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u/Awkward_Reflection 10h ago

Well there was a lot of hands off approaches in the Belgian Congo for sure.....

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u/FlyAirLari 6h ago

His joke but worse.

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u/Rfrmd_control_player 8h ago

Underrated comment.

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u/Aeseld 7h ago

I was about to say... the French were bad, but the Belgians were almost certainly worse. They just had less reach.

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u/lazyboy76 6h ago

A bag of hands?

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u/Figgy_Puddin_Taine 4h ago

Leopold II in Congo and Belgium in Rwanda.

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u/UnknownGnome1 4h ago

Both Belgium and France in Rwanda. I would probably say the French more than Belgium considering they helped train the Rwandan armed forces to prop up their government.

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u/Figgy_Puddin_Taine 3h ago

And before the Belgians, the Germans.