The Congo Crisis | Animated History of Congo
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- Maybe you've heard about the Battle of Jadotville or something, but there was actually a lot more to the Congo Crisis than that time the Irish smacked down hella mercenaries. Let's talk about some of that other stuff.
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Sources
Hobbs, Nicole, "The UN and the Congo Crisis of 1960" (2014). Harvey M. Applebaum ’59 Award. 6. elischolar.library.yale.edu/ap...
Mamaux, Alexis. The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Natufe, Omajuwa Igho. “THE COLD WAR AND THE CONGO CRISIS, 1960-1961.” Africa: Rivista Trimestrale Di Studi e Documentazione Dell’Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, vol. 39, no. 3, 1984, pp. 353-374.
"The Congo Crisis." Global Events: Milestone Events Throughout History, edited by Jennifer Stock, vol. 1: Africa, Gale, 2014, pp. 308-312.
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Am disappointed cz u didnt upload weekly
Shame on you
Ha ha!
ITZ IS HARD EDDITING BRAHHH
Aight see you in a month
Men can wait 3 months
He didn’t upload *because screw Leopoldville*
Everyone: "The British and French did horrible things in their colonies!"
Belgium: "If I don't move they won't see me."
"I've mastered the art if standing so incredibly still that i become invisible to the eye"
The Dutch: *laughs in okay I guess*
@ Primal _Guy , 🤦🏻♂️ Yeah the Dutch I men’s but Belgium too
"I'll just give them chocolate so they don't think about it that much"
Congo didn't belong to Belgium but to Leopold (i don't remember the number) so basically I don't feel ashamed.
My grandpa was one of those swedish UN troops. He only talk about the heat and never the conflict
That’s really cool! Yeah, I bet it was super hot. Especially for you Swedes!
@@HistoryHouseProductions yeah super hot was the right word they had to eat literal salt bricks to not pass out
UN isn't famous for doing nothing for... nothing, after all!
probably because they didn't do anything at all, per usual.
@@melize7035 Not really they were involved in operation Morthor and the final operation to sieze Katanga
Congo: can we have Independence?
Belgium: well no, but actually yes, but actually... *loads shotgun*
To be more accura
Loads FN FAL
*With Colonial intent*
😢
"War crime is an English word. That's why I don't know its meaning and is therefore meaningless" Belgium probably
Fun fact: The DRC has the shortest coastline in Africa, even smaller than The Gambia's.
I didn’t know that! I guess that makes sense though.
@@HistoryHouseProductions Blame (then Portuguese) Angola and Cabinda For THAT
Congo Coastline is shorter even than Iraq's
What about Ethiopia?
@@imperialimpact4912 Ethiopia Doesn't Have It since 1993
Even smaller than chad’s chaddest of chad coastline of chad.
The real Congo crisis is when some Belgian dude shows up named Leopold
True dat
-hands- down the biggest crisis
@@hailgiratinathetruegod7564 lmao
This comment section is hilarious
Everybody caught those hands
ooh the congo, its great too see some african history, also "the irish smacked down hella mercenaries" lmao
The siege of jadotville right Saw it in Simple history
It really do be like that tho
@@HistoryHouseProductions Great movie....and keep up the great work
What about the rhodeshian bush war?
UN: We need hardy soldiers who are neutral.
Ireland: Hold my beer. Actually don't, I'll drink it while I'm fighting.
Belgium in Europe:rex from toy story
Belgium in Africa:T rex from Jurassic park
USA in Europe, Taiwan, SK and Japan : Savior
USA in other part of the world: Aztec Bloodgod
@@yonathanrakau1783 I mean,the Aztecs sacrificed people,And the ground didn't eat everybody, statistics proves it
Also add dutch
@@yonathanrakau1783 Japan....savior......
I guess absolutely nothing of importance happened in Japan in 1945
Leapold: uses Soviet tec
America: REEEEEEE COMMIE
GO IT EM DWIGHT
Gee I wonder how they afforded all that fancy soviet equipment? Dur...
"communist_microwave"
@@paulaterry9305 gold star
African elections be like :
-corrupted party
-corrupted pro west party
-corrupted anti west Party
-not so corrupted part... nvm the candidate mysteriously died/disappeared
I hope that one day my country will find the peace it so much deserves 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩
Maybe when everyone stops hating each other
UN is useless and this should be a 10 episode Netflix series.
Just watch Seige of Jadotsville. That should help.
Only uselees without power! Just quit the bloody Security Council-Veto bullshit and we are fine
Muhammad Haiqal jadotville tells only one story but no the whole conflict
@@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278 Agreed, my bad.
Without UN and indian army there would be no united Congo
The Congo Crisis in 3 words:
Because screw Leopoldville!
Dont forget the CIA replasing good leaders witg Dictators
I'm not flat, stop asking , yeah
So true
@I'm not flat, stop asking they messed it all up! They needed to fall in line for the good of the state.
Lose election, try again next year.
Last time I was this early the Congolese still had their hands
I feel bad for laughing at this, but I admit, that’s pretty clever.
@@HistoryHouseProductions Please make a video about the US's messy Military Industrial Complex in the future?
@@HistoryHouseProductions i also feel bad for chuckling at this, but hey, a dark and crude jokes a dark and crude joke that i usually dont give any flying fricks about but if necessary ima have to knock some sence into someone.
Too soon, bro.
Whoa buddy😂😂 I’m from there Nd this is som funny ass dark humor oops I forgot white humor😏
Belgium: Literally commits genocides and atrocities until 1960
Everybody: I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that
Well... which one did the Belgian state commit exactly ?
For the 'affaire des mains coupées' it was when the Congo was under Leopold's private property so the belgian state had no say in it (untill it was sold to belgium by leo in 1908 or 1904 I don't remember exactly ^^).
There was no genocide by definition and it coud be argued that Congo was better off under Belgian rule
@@ghoul2164 I mean in a technical sense millions of people died soooooo.
@@ghoul2164 While it certainly could be argued that Congo was better off under Belgium due to the stability, Belgium has by no means done anything good for the region. Most of the Congo's problems today stem from Belgium. So while Congo now sucks even more than Congo under Belgium, Congo now sucks because of Congo under Belgium.
Dargon Dude Not really. The evidence for the genocide/massacre by Belgium is pretty scarce.
One of the greatest Billy Joel lyrics
I’m too uncultured to know what you mean
@@HistoryHouseProductions Same Harry Potter
History House Productions it’s from We Didn’t Start the Fire
@@HistoryHouseProductions in we didn't start the fire. There is a lyric called Belgians in the congo
@@lyndonbjohnson2865 they definitely started the fire
It’s cool to see this being covered cause my grandfather was part of the UN forces that airlifted all the Belgian’s out of the area. The Congo Crisis is easy to overlook when perusing through history.
"The UN secretary general's plane crashed".....yeahhhhhh sureeeee *crashed* if you count fighter jets shooting down his plane as a crash then yes totally.
couldn't backfire... in any way.....
WHO TOLD YOU
Dag Hammarskojd was just having a laugh when he put that ace card in his collar before the plane went down
Actually the plane crashed because the pilots had incorrect navigation cards that didn't say some mountains were near the airport or something like that, i'm not sure but what I know is that it definitly was an accident. You should look for the Air Crash Investigation documentary about this case, it's really good.
Solitary... NOW
Congolese: we’re finally free!
Mobutu Sese Seko: *are you sure about that?*
Fun fact: Polish ace pilot who fought in WW2, as part of 303 squadron (one of the best RAF squadrons) later joined as mercenary pilot to katanga air force and was a leader of air forces in katanga.
Interesting!
@@HistoryHouseProductions you know how you got those bullet holes in your plane?
the IRISH ARMY did that th-cam.com/video/9_JHsiQTTmg/w-d-xo.html
Funny that the U.N used soviet equipment.
Kongo is like I have an idea, “we are united” “no” “alright fight me”
Mobutu, asked why he decided to rename the capital to "Kinshasa":
*Because screw "Leopoldville!"*
Haha! Good one!
It never ceases to amaze me how toothless the UN is. It only seems to work when everyone already wants a goal (which is incredibly rare) and would have probably reached that goal without the UN, but when ANYONE wants something else or disagrees the whole thing falls apart.
the un is joke
They literally broke there own fucking charter. Katanga was Based and its sad what happened to it
That's by design. UN is just a discussion forum. It doesn't claim to be the world government and nor should it try to be one.
I was torn between your well written educational humor and the pain I feel when thinking of the people in that area and what they still endure.
Belgium: *Commits* *Genocides* *in* *Congo*
The world:Oh no,
So anyways...
Damn, everyone hates the congo
@@arrowpictures2844 everyone doesn't care about colonies subject
@@bondrewdthelordofdawn3744 pretty much everyone doesn’t care about Africa.
@@arrowpictures2844 sad but yes that the truth
Wow the conga line was so popular they named a country after it.
Just a quick thing, I know it was in a joke segment and all, but they sent in both Swedish and Irish UN troops to the Congo, and thats where the Siege of Jaodasville took place, the tiny Irish force versus 4,000 Congo mercenaries and rebels, just wanted to point it out as both forces did significant things over there and should be notarized, other than that good video, shooting UN troops is my favourite pastime too
I mentioned the Irish in the video description. I ran out of time to talk about them in the video, but I also think that they’re probably the most well known part of the Congo Crisis lol. Thanks for watching!
Congolese: *FINALLY WE ARE FREE!!! We Are Going to Have Bright and Peaceful Future.*
Everyone Else: **La Noire "Doubt"**
6:14 yes bless my ear drums , thank you for that
You’re welcome
UN: please defuse the situation
Congo: I CANT
UN: why?
Congo: I can’t touch it
UN: WHY?
Congo: *stares at Belgium*
Belgium: what? ... WHAT?!
The Congo at the time seems to have a ton of places ending with Ville Leopoldville controlled by the central government at the time, Stanleyville control by the ousted government, and Elisabethville controlled by katangese separatist the only capital city without ville was bakwanga in South Kasai
Yeah, the Belgians weren’t super creative with their city names
Leopoldville was renamed Kinshasa
Stanleyville became Kisangani
Elizabethville became Lubumbashi
Then Mobutu renamed the whole country into Zaire and reigned for 30+ years.
I feel like all the city names are way cooler now
@@HistoryHouseProductions Yeah there were more
banningville is now batutu
Coquihatville is now mbandaka
Albertville now kalemie
Baudoiuinville is now kirungu
And the ever popular jadotville is now likasi
These were all the the process of Zairianisation to make it more Congolese or I guess Zairian
@@risannd I think Congo is cooler but there is already a country called so
*Europeans When They Go To Not Europe,"Why Do I Civilise (Fix) Everything I Touch?"*.
*African Crises, "-_-"*
Thank You Everyone. Btw, Chef Boyardee Is My Bae))
Romans 'civilized' Europe the very same way. And also had a lot of power struggles and crisis.
Stop with the race baiting memes.
@@vinito19 uh, I'm not, I'm making a joke on the crisis'. Don't make this a political statement or something, it's bloody joke
„Switzerland told me to kill myself and than threw me off a mountain“
That is like the best description for Switzerland in its history.
Looks like the Belgians lent them a hand, eh? EH?
*badum tsssssss*
Laugh.
I read this in Homer Simpsons voice lol
*Get. Out.*
th-cam.com/video/T8by0n8BuiE/w-d-xo.html
Son:Dad who is Leopold?
Father: *Leopold Flashbacks*
It would be better with grandchild and grandfather
List of things that take a long time.
Waiting for that girl to call you back
Any sort of online shopping that isn't next day delivery
The Coronavirus
HHP posting a new video
Bro you know a war is messed up if there’s more than 3 factions, multiple parties and countries involved and still no one really wins.
Also the army mutineed
France:😐
The Siege of Jadotville is a Netflix movie about the Irish UN peacekeepers that were assigned to the town of, well Jadotville and were caught up in all of this. It's honestly such a great war movie
It’s the best war movie with no fighting
This is one of the funniest you've made yet, good job, keep up the good work
Seems interesting 🧐 I’m excited! Already seems like a good video 💙
I missed you’re videos so much!!!! Thank god you’re back!
Thanks for coming back Connor!
Leopold II: "you see, the Congo people aren't very good giving a hand to each other"
That's terrible LOL
“Any conflict ever that is or isn’t even closely related to communism”
America: well looks like we’re gonna have to establish democracy
_Cough_ dictatorship _Cough_
Just Ghostie ironic
5:34 To be fair, the UN intervened to save South Korea. By that point, peace was already gone. The goal was to save South Korea from the North.
@@12vscience Yep. I was blessed to be born in South Korea and fortunate enough to move to the U.S.
After a thousand of years, you finally uploaded a video
So DRC is basically a chessboard
I think a more important emphasis should have been put on *why* katanga wanted to secede, and what exactly Lumumba wanted. Namely, that Lumumba wanted to nationalise all the Belgian owned mines and use the mineral wealth of the region to enrich the enture country. Katanga was basically a Belgian puppet state, in place to destabalise Lumumba and not let him take away their precious precious diomands and uranium.
Overall though, good vid, and glad you did not go soft on the US, Belgium, and UN
Thank you! Yeah, I tried to allude to that, but I probably could’ve been more clear for sure. Thanks for watching!
"Lumumba wanted to nationalise all the Belgian owned mines and use the mineral wealth of the region to enrich the enture country" yeah, certainly. I tell you the reality, when you nationalize the companies mining your mineral riches you do not enrich your country but creating unbelievable corruption, making your country totally dependent on those resources, while halting any progress in terms of education and diversification of economy and in the end you are not even able to mine your own resources after your stolen infrastructure breaks. In the end you will sell your mineral wealth to the Chinese and you are happy because while you successfully ruined your country, but at least you showed your middle finger to the USA and to those dirty capitalist companies who create jobs, pay taxes, create infrastructure and know how. Nationalizing companies is not some heroic act for your people, but a malificent or naiv act which will always go wrong.
@@fenrirr22 The mental gymnastics needed just to say "actually, western companies stealing from poor countries is good"
@@Bumaroupjotrobru You don't steal you create jobs and infrastructure and pay taxes. Only governments steal from they own people, companies are interested in making value and using highly educated people (where it is needed) and efficent production.
African states are not in a bad shape because of the west robbing them, you cannot simply rob a country, you can even create value and good quality life on a barren land without any riches. African countries are poor, because their governments (which are shitty partially due to the west creating countries disregarding religious and ethnic borders) rob them and because of threir abundant resources the warlords and dictators don't need highly educated citizens to create value fro them, it is eaier to get it from mining, but those riches only goes for the people on the top.
So yes it is a hundred times better if western companies "steal from poor countries" because they give back far more and more interested in the people working for them, than their own politicians and warlords.
@@fenrirr22 Bur thats simply not true. The actual value of wealth being exttacted from Acrica is mamy times the wealth invested in it. You avt like warlords and corrupt governments are an issue separate from western companies, when it is a symbiotic relationship. In fantasy land, everything can be solved ny the magical invisible hand of the market, but in the real material world, when you take a real look at material conditions, its quite plain to see that companies have an overwhlemingly and undeniably *bad* influence on african countries. They invest in infrastructure that benefits their exploitation of the resource they wish to extracts, nothing more. They prop up cooperative governments (and get rid of uncooperative ones), usually dictatorships, that pass weak labour and environmental regulations, that allow companies to exploit the local workforce. Billions of dollars is extracted. Handfulls of rice are spent on wages. And the wealth exploited is not invested back into aftican society. It is invested in infrastructure to continue exploitation. It is invested in keeping cooperative governments in power. In short, it is invested in maintaining exploitation. African society does not benefit from this. Africa is loosing out. Its quite incredible that anyone can think otherwise
You've finally uploaded I am so happy
Omg you finally uploaded yay
This was fantastic.
Enjoyable and informative
Thank you!
As a congolese immigrant living in the US, I appreciate this...you just earned a sub with a the bell rung all the way and this video shared with some relatives. If you start to see some "interesting" language in native tongues appear in your comments, I apologize in advance lol
Haha! I really appreciate it! Thank you so much!
@@HistoryHouseProductions my pleasure :)...i sent this to my gf who is a polisci phd, pretty much i been trying to explain to her why murica has such an interesting relationship with the region and this video summed it up nicely haha
That’s awesome! Thank you again!
Love ur videos dude theyre great
"Switzerland told me to kill myself and then kicked me off a mountain" oh my GOD that joke snuck up on me
Random facts: two Swedish soldiers got killed and eaten in the Kongo crisis
Not by people I hope?
Yes, by people.
As a railfan, I would love to see a video on the railroad monopolies of the 1800’s. It’s a pretty fun story. Or just monopolies in general
A rail fan. So watch this about the Angolan Benguela railway. It was rebuilt with Chinese help. It connects to the Congolese railway which makes it possible for Katanga to ship out its mineral via the South Atlantic. - th-cam.com/video/DVY6Ej2j0Xs/w-d-xo.html
There is an impressive reading from a French journalist, Albert Londres, telling in the 1930s how building a railroad in Africa from river to sea cost thousands of life.
Yay your back, finally and holy shit you now have more subs
I loved this. Thanks
You only got out of me a few small chuckles till Switzerland "told me to go kill myself and punted me off a mountain", for whatever reason that is the funniest thing I've heard in months.
Those Mercenaries were really badass... Seriously watch some documentaries about them.
Another solid video, thanks :)
Thank YOU!
th-cam.com/video/T8by0n8BuiE/w-d-xo.html
Omg my first time here for a new one 😍
Because a one party dictatorship is a preferable alternative to functional communism
Actually true
functional and communism are antonyms
DEATH IS A PREFERABLE ALTERNATIVE TO COMMUNISM! COMMUNISM IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF FAILURE! DEMOCRACY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE!
Constantinos CHRISTODOULAKIS lol say that to dictatorships in the many African nations
Constantinos CHRISTODOULAKIS inefficient government, regardless to ideology will have issues. A dictatorship or “communist” government that acts in the interest of the state is better than a failed democracy that cannot provide needs
This channel is just as good as Oversimplified. But, ya know, with just 1% the number of subscribers.
Just saw this video, immediately subbed.
I love this TH-cam channel
Thank you!
"Because Screw Leopoldville!"
-Conner 2020
RIP Patrice Lumumba. His legacy lives on
Bro this channel is so underated
loved this video
3:16 JESUS CHRIST now THATS what I call a good insult
Somebody: am dissapointed u didnt upload weekly
Me: i dont really care as long as he uploads
just found yer channel subbed and clicked the bell good vid will be watching more
Thank you so much!
The footage from this conflict is incredibly high quality and shocking. If anyone is interested in it you need to watch some of the videos I've seen... WOW.
Chinese Civil Wars are waaay more complicated. Glad Oversimplified gave me training 😎
Good job UN, very neutral.
10/10 would unhelpfully peace keep again
Yeah😀😀😀 your back
Tscho thitszh schzeems like a good video, love the narrator.
Damn when is more stuff about Poland coming? Also love the videos keep them coming
I don’t have any Polish stuff planned for a little bit. Thanks for watching!
@@HistoryHouseProductions the CIA wants youre location for not uploading weekly
the edit is cuz of my bad grammar
I think the best part of this video was when the un representative said “Switzerland Told me to kill myself and punted me off a mountain.”
I fucking love your videos mate, please keep it up
Haha! Thank you!
Aaaaand instantly subscribed
Ahh! A fellow Connor!
The un responded thst theyre neutral and they handed him too mabutoo
Me: WOW WELL THAT SUCKS
I am surprised you didn't make a mention of the seige of jabootville.
This channel is great :)
Thanks! I’m glad you like it!
you are such a gem
Autonomous regions in the Congo would have probably worked out better than the current system now. Seeing how they have no control over eastern Congo
congo : please stop exploiting us
belgium : if this isn't independance I don't know what it is
Technically speaking it has continued for quite a while as decolonisation is a mess ^^
congo and "Zimbabwe" : please stop exploiting us so that we can exploit our own people
FTFY
But why is the DRC so manipulable and exploitable? Because 92% Christians are in fact apathetic citizens?
Man u make many funny videos hope u get more subs soon
Thaanks!
This gave me a lot of good information.
US: We protect democracy
Congo: ey commie over here
US: ONE STATE PARTY IT IS
Last time I was this early the girl made fun of me
Well, I’d say you did a very good job! Maybe one day I’ll understand this better lol. So confusing all the politics!
the crash course one is age restricted lol amazing channel mad i didn’t find u earlier
"they overthrew both men, established a *one party dictatership* "
Communists: Hol' up. *thats OUR thing*
I came here after the Myanmar Military Coup, I feel like the faith of Myanmar is going to reflect the Congo Crisis, after, the UN failed to support the Democracy league, there is no doubt that Myanmar would unfortunately fall to military dictatorship for next decades. All we can do is pray or protest, we should do something to prevent the same history as Congo Crisis.
Ngl the Congo crisis was started by the west itself
There was nothing communist in Congo until Mobotu took power
Great video. You're a genius
Love it!
Thank you!