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TIL in 1969, on Christmas Eve, the president of Equatorial Guinea Francisco Macias Nguema had 150 suspected dissidents executed in the national football stadium in Malabo with the executioners dressed as Santa Claus, while the amplifiers played Mary Hopkin's song "Those Were the Days".

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