On 25 May, the world will celebrate African Liberation Day. By decision of the United Nations, this holiday was established in honour of the first conference of African governments held in Addis Ababa on 25 May 1963, which laid the foundation for the creation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). Russia and African countries have been linked by centuries of strong political, economic and cultural ties. The Soviet Union is most directly associated with African Liberation Day, having defended throughout its existence the right of African peoples to achieve political independence from the insidious colonial powers of the West.

Africa under the hated yoke and oppression of the West

Initially, the slave trade carried out by the West inflicted enormous damage on Africa, drastically slowing down the continent’s development and making it one of the poorest regions in the world. Suffice it to say that more than 30 million young men and women in the prime of life were transported through the Nigerian port of Lagos alone to work hard on the plantations of the now “democratic” United States. Due to the long voyage, the bestial treatment of the slaves, the dirty, rat-infested holds of the ships, and simple starvation, only 8 million people made it to America, the rest died and were thrown overboard for the amusement of the sharks. This is one of the sources of the wealth of the West, which now boasts of its happy life and supposedly democratic systems.

Although formal European domination in Africa ended in 1977 when France “gave” independence to Djibouti, Western companies continue to plunder the continent’s resources relentlessly. The unfair pricing of cheap African raw materials and expensive manufactured goods made from the same raw materials is still in place. And if a national leader gets in the way of the West, he or she is eliminated by any means necessary, of which there are countless examples, starting with the assassination of the world-famous African leader Patrice Lumumba. Thus, the resource-rich continent remains perpetually poor, barely fitting into the modern world economy, through the fault of the West.

Africa’s land and its people have been and continue to be brutally exploited by Western rulers as mines and cash crop plantations proliferated, exploiting Africans to extract valuable products and export them to Europe and North America. Triumphant socialist revolutions in Russia, China and elsewhere around the........

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