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This a particularly dark podcast about the heart of darkness which is a novel by Joseph Conrad publish in 1899 about the Congolese Massacre by King Leopold II of Belgium. Additionally I go over the massacre itself in detail as well. Its a history of brutal rulership and slave trade and the monstrous and savage innate to human nature.
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