# Belgian Colonial Rule in Congo and Its Legacy

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120195946151629047
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- Source language: Russian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:17
- Published: 2026-11-10
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy) They managed to turn the whole continent into a concentration camp, because they needed peanuts from Senegal, cocoa from Nigeria, and rubber from the Congo.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=11) The Congo was seventy-six times larger than Belgium when Belgium colonized it.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=15) Belgium was really upset that France got some, Germany even got some.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=19) Well, never mind Holland, or Great Britain, Spain, Portugal. Everyone got a share.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=23) Belgium, well, was one of the last to come running and take a bite out of this little pie, which was called the whole rest of the perfectly normal world, which they colonized and raped like this, like this, sucked everything out of them, wrung them dry for centuries.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=38) When did all this begin? It all began during the Age of Discovery.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=42) As soon as they discovered something, The first thing they discovered was… They discovered it there when they discovered America? In 1492, they discovered it.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=50) Come on, all of it! Nowadays, people don't even remember that when Native Americans lived there, it was all colonized.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=55) But I'm talking about Africa now. What they did in the Congo, when now, when you show pictures, dear Europe, when they trash your train stations.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=69) Antwerp station, built by the hands of the Congolese, quite literally, because the Congolese— for failing to produce enough rubber, and for, well, not working all that hard, like, say, a C student, they'd cut off their hands.

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=86) The internet is already flooded with these photos. Photography as such is all over the internet.

[1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=91) Even children. The children of these workers.

[1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=93) Children. And women. Women and little children, too, had their hands cut off. Think about that!

[1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=99) And with these severed hands, a famous railway station was built in Antwerp, and parks were built.

[1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=106) And dear Europe, when they, their descendants, ransack your parks, your railway stations, all I can tell you and tomorrow this will be in your newspapers again: you had it coming!

[1:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=118) You reap what you sow. What did you persecute us for, rape us for centuries?

[2:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=124) And did you think that one day they wouldn't come out and make you answer for it?

[2:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9CROxnBPp1R9/en/belgian-colonial-rule-in-congo-and-its-legacy?t=127) They will. There's a— in classical English-language literature a writer named Joseph Conrad, he's studied in American schools