Many are still haunted by the aborted legacy of DR Congo’s first prime minister, who was murdered on January 17, 1961.
Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital ... and when he reached out to the Soviet Union for help in putting down a secessionist ...
From 1961 to 1992, one of Moscow’s most prestigious schools bore the name of Patrice Lumumba, the Soviet-supported Congolese independence leader brutally executed in 1961. Patrice Lumumba ...
The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) has once again been bestowed with the name of Patrice Lumumba ... and Latin American countries, but Soviet students also attended the university.