Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "What Happened in Africa During the Cold War? | Animated History" video.

  1.  @oo--7714  But Botswana is still one of the best off countries in Africa. And as far as Ghana goes, Nkrumah's own delusions of grandeur did him in.
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  2. Founded by communist regimes that had issues with the USSR like Yugoslavia.
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  3. Don't forget Mengistu's Ethiopia that presided over one of the biggest humanitarian disasters post-WW2 with a million Ethiopians starving to death making Ethiopia the ultimate poster child for famine. Another one of communism's fair share of disasters in Africa.
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  4. Ethiopia and Somalia.
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  5. Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Congo-Brazzaville, South Africa, etc.
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  6.  @mwanikimwaniki6801  With help from the Soviet Union.
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  7.  @b_a_z_e_dv.2.067  8. Communist-backed coups. You must have forgotten about Ethiopia.
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  8. Somalia = how socialism/communism doesn't work even with US support.
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  9.  @oo--7714  It's rich by African standards and it's still considered Africa's success story. Equatorial Guinea has the highest GDP per capita in the continent, but 75% of Equatorial Guinean citizens live in poverty and is led by one of the longest serving heads of state on Earth. Its low life expectancy can be attributed to AIDS which is a major problem in Southern Africa.
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  10. Good question.
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  11. Except themselves.
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  12.  @theballadofkobirae7431  Khama didn't jump on the Marxist bandwagon like his neighbors.
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  13. To the woke West, good riddance!
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  14. And ego.
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  15. After the Soviet Union threw Barre under the bus and cut off the aid.
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  16. Who actually managed to get US support.
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  17. American and Russian.
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  18. That's why I don't blame Haiti, Vietnam or Algeria for ridding their lands of the French by any means necessary.
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