People of the Revolution and the USSR

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Any DR Congo state institutions 1 Congolese National Movement (MNC) 1

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DR Congo state institutions 1 Congolese National Movement (MNC) 1
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Any United States 56 Poland 41 Hungary 33 Czechoslovakia 28 East Germany 22 Germany 15 Vietnam 15 France 11 Angola 10 Romania 10 Cambodia 9 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 9 Yugoslavia 9 United Kingdom 8 Yemen 8 Congo - Brazzaville 7 Czechia 7 Afghanistan 6 Cuba 6 Albania 5 Ethiopia 5 Laos 5 Madagascar 5 Benin 4 Bulgaria 4 Lithuania 4 Italy 3 Somalia 3 South Korea 3 Finland 2 Indonesia 2 Korea 2 Mozambique 2 Portugal 2 South Africa 2 Trinidad and Tobago 2 Argentina 1 Austria 1 Brazil 1 Burkina Faso 1 Chile 1 DR Congo 1 Ecuador 1 Ghana 1 Grenada 1 Guyana 1 India 1 Japan 1 Mongolia 1 Myanmar 1 Russia 1 Singapore 1 Soviet Union 1 Spain 1 Tanzania 1 Turkmenistan 1
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The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1
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Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Lumumba
Congolese National Movement (MNC) National liberation and anti-colonial movements DR Congo DR Congo 1925–1961 ✕ Murdered

Congo's first prime minister: one speech made him the empire's target

“History will one day have its say… Africa will write its own history.” — last letter to his wife from prison, 1960

Independence leader and first prime minister of the Congo. His unscheduled 1960 independence-day speech indicting colonial violence before King Baudouin made him a global symbol; within three months he was deposed and the following year killed with CIA and Belgian complicity.

Career timeline
  • 1958Founds the Congolese National Movement
  • 1960.05Wins the first elections; first prime minister
  • 1960.06The unscheduled independence-day speech indicting colonial rule
  • 1960.09Deposed and confined by Mobutu's coup
  • 1961.01Flown to Katanga and killed, with CIA and Belgian complicity