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[–] TankovayaDiviziya 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Blaming colonialism is used by many corrupt, incompetent post-colonial governments to distract people from their own corrupt incompetence. It's like with Putin blaming NATO and the West for everything.

Source: I am from a corrupt, incompetent post-colonial country