21 min

Congo 1960 - 1965 Korean War Podcast

    • History

This episode deals with the Civil War in the Congo between 1960 and 1965 following independence from Belgium.  It became a proxy war of the cold war with the United States and the Soviet Union supporting different political factions in the Congo.  A biography of Mobutu who would become the dictator of the Congo for over thirty years from 1965.

This episode deals with the Civil War in the Congo between 1960 and 1965 following independence from Belgium.  It became a proxy war of the cold war with the United States and the Soviet Union supporting different political factions in the Congo.  A biography of Mobutu who would become the dictator of the Congo for over thirty years from 1965.

21 min

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