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How Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ride (www.salon.com)

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[–] DonnieDarkmode@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

And sometimes even those who tried to overthrow their colonizers were financially punished like how Haiti was.

And just to bring it full circle, after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti there was a push for the French government to finally make reparations for what they did (to the tune of $28 billion). The French government said no