Belgium then: I'm going to do the most cruel and horrifying colonization in human history!
Belgium now: I'm a quirky fun lil euro state. Come, we have great beer and no dark colonial era secrets!
NaibofTabr 9 points a day ago
Yes, well, constant naval warfare became unfashionable, you know.
cockmushroom 7 points a day ago
This is actually a glow up
MalikMuaddibSoong 4 points 20 hours ago
I'm not crying for myself. I'm crying for you. They say that great beasts once roamed this world. As big as mountains. Yet all that's left of them is bone and amber. Time undoes even the mightiest of creatures. Just look at what it's done to you.
WoodScientist 2 points a day ago
Why the change? August 6, 1945.
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