Congo Crisis 1960-1965 - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

You need to fuck off with the 2 minute bullshit rant about your sponsors at the beginning. Put that shit at the end for fucks sake dude.

From 60 to 62 it was a super power struggle


Commies wanted the resources for nukes many like my country Ireland deployed soldiers for the un and fought in the Congo.

The French mining industry hired mercs to back Katanga until 62 they switch sides and fought against communists.

Now while this is happening it’s not like blacks are sitting by watching they fully took part in choosing sides and picking who they want to work with in the future.

It’s the simba uprising in 63-64 or the genocide against whites and Muslims that changed everything. Again was now backed by Soviets and china in a genocide against whites.

Yes the mercs sent in did commit countless crimes. For instance when they responded to the first attack from the simba rebels 15 thousand civilians white black and Muslims where slaughtered by African tribes against colonialism. The mercs were the first responders. Over 20 buckets full to the top with severed hands and 500 people either partly eaten or parts like their liver taken out and eaten.

These mercs then went on to a simba town burned it to the ground and probably killed thousands. That’s a correct response to eating 500 civilians like animals

When wil you make videos about the South African border war and South Africa itself and its history and the Rhodesian war

the UN lost all credibility when they abandoned the free people of democratic Katanga to the communists.

From the river to th sea, the mighty Kongo will be free!

The book "Congo Mercenary" is an excellent source to learn about this conflict between 1960 - 1964.

Mobutu was handpicked by the CIA and had been working with the Belgian security forces years before independence.

Please do a video on Southern Africa 1965-1990!

Wow, very informative, accurate, and informative. Thank you very much.

why are the sources not specified in the description

Too much cope in these docs.

Congo was never an entity before colonialism, why waste resources to force it into one entity? why force an alien constitution on them? These remain unanswered and are the reason why so much sh*t is going on in modern Africa.

Lumumba was an idiot.

It’s funny how all of these African nations begged for independence, and after getting it, immediately devolved into slaughtering their “own” people who wanted their own form of independence…

It’s almost like there’s a human desire, regardless of race, to dominate others, amass wealth, and forcefully snuff out dissent. Why did the Africans hate the arbitrary borders drawn by the Europeans, yet, then slaughtered each other to keep them following the European departure?

tldr, the CIA and Belgium assassinated an up and coming African leader to maintain the exploitative system that western benefited from. Then they installed a brutal dictator who basically was an African Leopold that was warmly welcomed many times at the white house

Bazinga

Why did you gloss over HOW the UN destroyed Katanga? Former deputy director of the FBI, Dan Smoot , wrote a book about it. It was done with outright murder of civilians on a massive scale- machine gunning unarmed men, women, and children at road blocks, and assaults on clearly marked hospitals, schools, and public buildings.

Not sure why you're downplaying the role of the CIA, and their role in the execution of Patrice Lumumba.
President Kennedy was ready to intervene in help Patrice, but Allen Dulles director of the CIA, knew what Kennedy was going to do and it had Patrice delivered into the hands of his enemies and executed.
You're really down playing the role of global capitalism along with the Central intelligence agency and the toppling of democratically elected leaders

No name ever described a country better than Congo.

Spears and bows were quite common in this conflict judging my photos, I find that really cool to see such primitive weapons being used in the cold war.

How about doing Shaba 1 and Shaba 2 episodes. Maybe even another on the Safari Club,

That Lumumba was executed is putting it quite mildly. He was tortured, murdered and buried nearby. They then blamed his death on angry local villagers, and proceeded to dig his body back up, cut it into pieces, dissolved those in acid and burned any remains. ( All of this was, to an extent supported by Belgium). Oh and of course the CIA also planned to murder him.

I don’t believe this guy. He don’t tell truth. He know little and bullshit a lot

Got my sub

Brown people having self governance... how dare their say the Imperialists.

Stumbling on from one balls up to another. In fact the colonial boundaries cut across natural African Tribes so the violence was tribal based as well.

The problems of Africa were by far not limited to colonialism and superpower rivalry. Africans were the main problem.

First time finding your channel. Good stuff. In my opinion I would suggest more historical footage and less facial closeups. More interested in the history and less in the glamor shots.

All that text book history lesson doesn't give rise to truth. Greed & power

You forgot the part where america installed mobutu

artificially created nations with no sense of national identity forged over a long time are bound to fracture. I think even if the belgians had stuck around and done the withdrawal properly, at best things would have stayed stable a few years or decades longer before the same thing happened anyway.

I served in the Irish Army in the 1980's with 2 guys who fought at Jadotville. They always said they were there to protect the mines, to this day nobody has confirmed who ordered them to Jadotville. They were treated appalling by the Irish Government and the Irish Military who would have preferred if they fought to the last man instead of laying down their arms. One is still alive and can report he is in good health and as sharp as a tack, was only 19 when he fought at Jadotville.

For all of Americas faults

People underestimate the meddling of the USSR in the Cold War

black people will forever be fucked on this planet. it's on them though its because of their actions and their corruption thoigh

Lemumba made a huge mistake when he sought military assistance from the USSR. Very naive. A good man though. His short era was a momentary glimpse of hope for The Congo.

White people being targeted and attacked was happening until the Belgian troops and mercs turned up, then it stopped. Nice try at trying to rewrite history, also the violence and cannibalism was off the charts long before any Belgians turned up.

I would love for u guys to try digging into the independence struggle between the UPC and the French Colonial government, in Eastern Cameroon. Its somewhat similar to this video but with alot more intrigue and conspiracies.

Well, that was simple

Casualties also includes injured, by the way. It is commonly used as a more formal-sounding way to say "deaths", but that is incorrect. This is assuming that you're just citing the Wikipedia figure of 100,000 deaths--if you have a source that says it was 100,00 killed and injured then my bad.

big-brain colonial general thinking denying pay raises to the majority of his manpower base is a good idea

This is more of a capitalist vs communist story.Pls be more factual

African nations can never have unity, too power hungry for their own gains unfortunately.

La descolonizacion fue lo peor que pudo pasar a la mayoría de países africanos...estaban mejor bajo tutela europea

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Please do a video on the Nigerian Civil war😊🍇🍇🚀🙌🙌

Sadly the ghost of Lumumba haunts Congo.

You failed to mention that it was mainly European mercenaries, in particular the anglophone 5 Commando (the Wild Geese) led by Mike Hoare, that put down the Lumumbist Simba insurgency in the Congo from August 1964 to October 1965. 5 Commando was mainly staffed by Rhodesian and South African whites led by a few former British officers.

Kasavuba (Kasa--Vubu) was never a member of the MNC; he headed his own party ABAKO.

I can;t even find them on Amazon, as well as Zulu