This is absolutely not true. Why did the secret services of this nations along with the USA, organise, fund and deploy assassins to murder key figures emerging from the anti-colonial movements of the 1940's and fifties? They were seeking to continue to monopolise resources on terms that favoured them, as much if not more than under the direct colonialism.

There is massive evidence for this from books detailing the horror that unfolded coup and coup such as in the Congo after the murder of the democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba... Allende in Chile, there are so many names .... the brightest leaders of the highest integrity were picked off by these 'social democracies', who have printed the rhetoric of democracy at home while ensuring military rule and fascism was established in the regions they sought control over.

This fairy tale about ' gentle Europeans' really needs to be buried for the delusion that it is.