Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "MENGISTU : The Butcher of Addis Ababa and the story of Socialist Ethiopia | African Biographics" video.

  1. Also made Ethiopia the ultimate poster boy for everything wrong with post-colonial Africa. In his case, famine.
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  2.  @rediettadesse2828  Ethiopia was never colonized.
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  3. <Although he’s had his flaws and killed his opposition, he was a great leader that gave Ethiopia a great status amongst world countries.> As what? The ultimate poster boy for famine?
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  4. <MARXISM IS GOOD, LOOK AT CHINA> Only after it adopted some capitalist reforms.
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  5. And making Ethiopia the poster boy for famine.
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  6.  @rootin222  While Mengistu was an agent for Soviet imperialism.
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  7. He was a combination of Lenin and Stalin as Ethiopia got to experience Red Terror and Holodomor.
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  8. LOL
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  9.  @RR-ll2ns  Canada and Scandinavia are not socialist.
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  10. So he ended up being a Soviet puppet. After all, he was backed by them.
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  11.  @DavidMandengenda  Except Mengistu didn't have any falling out with the West. He was Soviet-supported through and through.
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  12. The video is correct. And Mengistu was a Soviet puppet, not a US one.
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  13. Tanzania, USSR, China, etc.
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  14.  @itsmepeople1  So was Idi Amin. How did that work out for the citizens that suffered under him?
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  15. Yes. And he still lives there.
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  16. <90% of Ethiopians love Mengestu.> Namely those who worked for him and got a handout from him.
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  17. For what?
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  18. But he was a Soviet puppet.
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  19. But he allowed some 2 million of his own countrymen to starve to death and made Ethiopia the poster boy for African famine.
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  20. Who made Ethiopia the poster boy for famine.
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  21.  @ontheline3077  Non-biased = propaganda sympathetic to Mengistu.
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  22. Mengistu was a Soviet puppet.
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  23. Namely the USSR (Russia).
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  24.  @theinfamouspokeinrichmondc3543  Well, Nkrumah did run Ghana into the ground. He didn't exactly do himself any favors with forcing farmers to sell their produce at rock-bottom prices among other things. Blaise Compaore? One of Sankara's henchmen? FRELIMO killing off its founder? Who knew that revolutions eat their own?
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  25.  @cameraman1234567890a  By their own henchmen.
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  26.  @jimmyTooFreshh  Socialists don't need anyone to make them look bad. You give the West way too much credit.
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  27. The people = ignorant, illiterate and stupid.
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  28. TPLF = another far-left uber-communist group. Just like the Derg Mengistu ruled.
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  29. Nothing wrong with that!
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  30. He was a butcher. And even more shame on anyone making excuses for or out-right supporting his crimes against humanity.
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  31. He was a Soviet puppet.
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  32.  @Baduri89  Pretty much.
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  33. He was a Soviet puppet.
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  34. But Mengistu became the upper class.
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  35. Exactly.
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  36. About as sad as him supporting the MPLA of Angola that one of Africa's richest people (Isabel Dos Santos) is a product of.
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  37. Better question: How many fellow Americans did George W Bush killed due to his brutality and policies?
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  38.  @bkessel77  <Neither capitalism nor Marxism have benefitted Africans> Capitalism has worked out for Botswana and Rwanda. And by the way, even Marx himself admitted in the end capitalism was still the better system ad socialism was just simply not viable or sustainable without capitalism to prop it up.
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  39. So patriotic that he condemned millions in his country to starvation and death.
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  40. He was a Russian (Soviet) puppet, though.
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  41. Were you one of Mengistu's stooges?
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  42. Mengistu had it coming.
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  43.  @joninator7858  Exactly.
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  44. Living in exile.
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  45. Yes it does, in practice. <He was a. POS opportunist, his claimed economic/ government beliefs meant nothing to his ambition and his actions. > Just like every other socialist. Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Kim Il-Sung and Jong-Il. And when it isn't about the horrifying butcher of the population, it's the horrifying butcher of the economy a la: Chavez and Maduro, Mugabe, etc.
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  46. But he happily bowed down to Moscow.
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  47. The same Slave Trade a lot of African kingdoms benefited from until industrialization came around and Europe decided to move on leaving said African kingdoms bankrupt?
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  48. Pretty much.
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  49.  @jannabs-c1u  But the results are the same.
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  50. Just like Kwame Nkrumah.
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  51. So was Kim Il-Sung.
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  52. Nah. Mengistu was the Lenin/Stalin of Africa.
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  53.  @ontheline3077  <are still begging for aid from former oppressors> Only after adopting socialism and going bankrupt in the process. <Clearly, anti communists like you just don't want to live with dignity and prefer begging to independence.> How is state-imposed poverty and destitution = living with dignity?
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  54.  @ontheline3077  <Chinese were poorer than you and now building you everything, and they succeed bc communism,> Actually, the Chinese succeeded once they toned down the communism with capitalist reforms. Ditto for Vietnam. <Socialism was the only viable strategy for non western countries to achieve a decent level of living and real independence from former colonisers.> Like Tanzania? Socialism did plenty to set it back even by Nyerere's own admission. And he didn't have the excuse of outside meddling. Ditto for Benin.
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  55. He made Ethiopia the poster boy for famine.
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  56. While being fodder for imperialism. LOL
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  57.  @samuelsolomon6606  <The liberals couldn't overthrow the fudal gov the commies did and they did wonders it's highly unfortunate that mengestu became power hungry and killed a lot of people > Standard communist fare. Whatever successes it does achieve are often short-lived.
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  58.  @Pancasilaist8752  Especially after the USSR threw Somalia under the bus.
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  59. <against Somalia> And fellow Marxist socialist Siad Barre.
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  60.  @kylebfeye9850  But Mengistu made Ethiopia the perennial poster child for famine.
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  61. And Seretse Khama of Botswana.
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  62. Also Francisco and Teodoro Nguema, Mobutu Sese Seko, etc.
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  63.  @shakezist  Not according to the Ndebele tribe.
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  64.  @mosesngaiyaya1757  Meh. You wouldn't be saying that if he was a Western puppet or a right-winger.
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  65. Good to who? Regime supporters?
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  66.  @samanth.  Nazis are not right-wing, though.
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  67.  @samanth.  No they're not. And Nazi-ism is a left-wing idea.
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