 Complete the following phrase:  In 2002 Belgium officially apologised for its role in the assassination of Lumumba; the CIA has long been speculated of complicity, as they had seen Lumumbas politics were too far left. The Soviet Union during the Cold War years was active in expanding its influence in Africa against European powers, giving anti-colonialism as a rationale for the increase of its power in the region. A series of rebellions and separatist movements seemed to shatter the dream of a unitary Congolese state at its birth. Although the nation was independent, Belgian paratroopers intervened in the Congo on various occasions to protect and evacuate 