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Assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1961)
On the Cold War map as “The murder of Lumumba”
17 Jan 1961 — Congo’s first elected premier, ousted with CIA and Belgian connivance, is executed by secessionist forces in Katanga. Africa’s decolonization collides with the Cold War, and loses.
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- Cold War in the Third World (chapter 8 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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- Decolonization of Africa
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