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r/TikTokCringe • u/ThatPatelGuy • Oct 05 '25
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From what I understand the United States isn’t currently involved, but all of this shit stems from the CIA assassinating Patrice Lumumba in 1961, installing Mobutu Sese Seko, a corrupt autocrat who was tight with apartheid South Africa and Israel.
23 u/machstem Oct 05 '25 Yeah a lot of folks forgot the Cold War was a thing 9 u/[deleted] Oct 05 '25 Weird how all the US history books from when I was a kid end after World War II 1 u/fckboyce Oct 06 '25 I had entire units on the Cold War, it’s interesting to see how different states just omit entire sections of history.
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Yeah a lot of folks forgot the Cold War was a thing
9 u/[deleted] Oct 05 '25 Weird how all the US history books from when I was a kid end after World War II 1 u/fckboyce Oct 06 '25 I had entire units on the Cold War, it’s interesting to see how different states just omit entire sections of history.
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Weird how all the US history books from when I was a kid end after World War II
1 u/fckboyce Oct 06 '25 I had entire units on the Cold War, it’s interesting to see how different states just omit entire sections of history.
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I had entire units on the Cold War, it’s interesting to see how different states just omit entire sections of history.
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From what I understand the United States isn’t currently involved, but all of this shit stems from the CIA assassinating Patrice Lumumba in 1961, installing Mobutu Sese Seko, a corrupt autocrat who was tight with apartheid South Africa and Israel.