"that your thoughts were controlled, "
The stuff ods Science Fiction - the ability to "control" the minds of many millions of people don't even exist in the twenty-first century (otherwise despotic madmen like Trump would have used it long before now.
Go read a book for crying out loud
Joe and Rag are right, this is no place for this discussion - you want to compare the comparative democracies of China, Russia and your own (which fought a genocidal war against a peasant nation for half century with the use of toxic chemicals and burning petrolium) - go open a thread on it.

Joe is also right anbout the ling between the Kaiser and Leopold - I apologise to rag for taking it up as did, but it really is part of this
These massacres were part of the expanding of Colonialism - in this case, Belgian and German, but other Empires were just as culpable of similar activities, including Britain whose Colonial history remains largely unwritten but whose effects still influence our everyday lives.
Without the bickering, I believe that the obvious (to me) links between incidents like these German and Belgian atrocities - and World War One itself, would be an opportunity to discuss our Colonial legacy
At the very least, their similarities make comparing them unavoidable.
Rag started this thread and it is really up to him how far he wants to take it as far as I'm concerned.
You have my opinion on the issue
Jim