>>3536050>unironically implying he isn't the downie here for sperging about politicsIf it really wasn't a big deal, you wouldn't be that upset about it. Anyway, have you heard of the legend of Thomas Sankara? A true Marxists through and through.
>vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.>initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.>planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification>built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid>appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.>outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights>sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.>reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.>redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.>opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”>spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance.>called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting>In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).