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title: "President Putin: The West deliberately put African countries trillions of dollars in debt to exercise neo-colonial control over them."
date: 2023-09-13
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">President Putin: The West deliberately put African countries trillions of dollars in debt to exercise neo-colonial control over them. <a href="https://t.co/XqdwPn9TEc">pic.twitter.com/XqdwPn9TEc</a></p>&mdash; Putin Direct (@PutinDirect) <a href="https://twitter.com/PutinDirect/status/1701748185960743141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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- [Full Transcript ~ Plenary session](http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/72259)

- [8th Eastern Economic Forum ~ September 2023](https://forumvostok.ru/en/)

Vladimir Putin: 
>If we look at Africa and our cooperation, we see that we helped it. What did the former colonisers do? Back in 1957 – I was recently been shown a photograph – they brought people from Africa in cages to European countries, for example, Belgium. It is an ugly sight, children put up on display in cages. 

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>Yes, they brought people in cages and put them up on display, whole families and children in separate cages. How can you forget this? Nobody in Africa will ever forget this.

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