[coldtea]

>That wasn't in XX century however. They were universally gone by mid-century.

Mostly because of those pesky Bolsheviks being a new worry of the colonial powers, standing in as an idea that their rule can end, and socialism inspiring all kinds of anti-colonial national revolutions (from Vietnam to China, and from Africa to Latin America). So, there's that.

Besides, neo-colonialism still dominates the developing world. It's the bigger fish like India, Japan, China, Brazil and a few others like Indonesia, that got away from it and managed (more or less successfully) to take their fate into their own hands instead of being played and meddled.

[thriftwy]

You know what? I don't care if colonialism stayed, if it also made Bolsheviks in Russia go away. I would be just happy.

I didn't get anything for me out of this decolonization-by-communist-competition deal. Anything but humiliation.