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This episode deals with the Civil War in the Congo between 1960 and 1965 following independence from Belgium. It became a proxy war of the cold war with the United States and the Soviet Union supporting different political factions in the Congo. A biography of Mobutu who would become the dictator of the Congo for over thirty years from 1965.
By Paul Kendrick4.7
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This episode deals with the Civil War in the Congo between 1960 and 1965 following independence from Belgium. It became a proxy war of the cold war with the United States and the Soviet Union supporting different political factions in the Congo. A biography of Mobutu who would become the dictator of the Congo for over thirty years from 1965.

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