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в чем мысль автора?

Russian translation: ниже

09:05 Aug 12, 2007
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Social Sciences - History
English term or phrase: в чем мысль автора?
In 1957 the Gold Coast, as Ghana, became the first African colony to become independent. A mishandled referendum in French west Africa led to the independence of Guinea in 1958 and that provided an example for others to follow. By 1960 all the French colonies in west and equatorial Africa were independent. This increased pressure on the other European powers. Belgium rushed through independence for the Congo in a little over eighteen months and because it had built no social infrastructure during its period of rule the state disintegrated - an army mutiny led to chaos and near anarchy. This concentrated the minds of the British and they too speeded up moves to independence across the whole of Africa. The most rapid was in Somaliland which moved from colonial autocracy to independence in the space of just four and a half months in early 1960. Only in a few cases where European settlers were well entrenched such as Algeria (constitutionally part of France rather than a colony) were there major problems and extensive conflict over independence. By the mid-1960s the European empires in Africa had come to an end and nearly all the remaining colonies around the world were independent by the early 1970s. The last to go were the Portuguese colonies after the revolution in 1974 and southern Rhodesia in 1980 after the ruling white minority had illegally declared independence in 1965. Если я правильно понимаю Бельгия сама по собственной инициативе решила сделать Конго независимым. Потом говорится о том, что это едва не привело к анархии и что британцы тоже стали ускорять обретения независимости африканскими колониями. Получается, что европейским державам было выгодно разваливать колонии. Или я что-то не так понял? Смущает меня предложение об Алжире, в котором говорится, что были конфликты из-за независимости. Какое-то противоречие получается. Или только Бельгия и Британия хотели, чтобы колонии стали независимыми?
Mikhail Korolev
Local time: 03:06
Russian translation:ниже
Explanation:
Во всех африканских странах к этому моменту были мощные освободительные движения, поэтому Бельгия и "поспешила" - на нее надавил блок прогрессивных партий Конго. А в Алжире, одной из немногих стран, где было много европейских переселенцев, которые были сильны, и началась борьба за независимость, т.к. французы не хотели отдавать Алжир.
Не хотели европейцы независимости - африканцы сами боролись, но только у французов был шанс этому противостоять, ибо в Алжире была большое французское поселение.
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Vanda Nissen
Australia
Local time: 10:06
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37 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
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Explanation:
Во всех африканских странах к этому моменту были мощные освободительные движения, поэтому Бельгия и "поспешила" - на нее надавил блок прогрессивных партий Конго. А в Алжире, одной из немногих стран, где было много европейских переселенцев, которые были сильны, и началась борьба за независимость, т.к. французы не хотели отдавать Алжир.
Не хотели европейцы независимости - африканцы сами боролись, но только у французов был шанс этому противостоять, ибо в Алжире была большое французское поселение.

Vanda Nissen
Australia
Local time: 10:06
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you very much.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Katia Gygax: Приветствую. Очень резонно, поддерживаю.
13 mins
  -> Спасибо большое:)!
agree  Olga Arakelyan
18 mins
  -> Спасибо!
agree  Natalya Danilova
1 hr
  -> Спасибо!
agree  David Knowles: There were also strong internal political pressures within European states, because colonial rule could not be logically or morally justified. France considered Algeria to be an integral part of France, so pretended that there was no colonial issue.
7 hrs
  -> Thank you, David!
neutral  Vitaly Kisin: I will politely disagree: seems to me the author of this text is muddled in his thinking and his analysis and the respected colleagues are trying to rewrite the text for him in the way they see the conflict. klp's consternation is well founded
9 hrs
  -> Thank you, Vitaly! But it was like this:). I mentioned only historical facts - no personal interpretation:)
neutral  Olga Klymenko: Agree with Vitaly Kisin.I don't see any particular argument here. More context is needed, this fragment doesn't contain any "thesis statement" & the interpetation of events is very arbitrary.Basically, this is a brief chronology of decolonization
19 hrs
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