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Old July 21st, 2008, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by uffandr View Post
But Mr.Churchill and Rusvelt preferred to have some new colonies in Africa.
Wasn't following WWII that decolonization of Africa began, and by 1980 almost the whole of the continent had gained their independence?
Wasn't it the Russians who then took most of eastern Europe to bolster it's own empire (a sort of Buffer zone), And by 1980 was still invading other sovereign nations like Afghanistan.
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