I found the music selection to be very weird but after reading the comment of the creator it made sense. For a 14 year old this is pretty impressive work, regardless of the "historical inaccuracies" !!!
This documentary fails to tell the truth of what caused this conflict. It had nothing to do with racism and everything to do with liberal/communist ideologies being pushed upon a society that flourished prior to it.
Sadly it's even worse now judging by the number of economic refugees and illegal immigrant Zimbabwe nationals in South Africa at present. The females survivors of the first Air Rhodesia Viscount airliner attack were brutally raped even with serious injuries and then murdered in cold blood along with the other unfortunate victims of the war crime. So much cruelty and brutality only for it to end up in the utterly failed state it is today.
Actually impressed with your pronunciation of Rhodesia. I'm not well-versed in Rhodesian history (hence my presence here), but I am a Rhodes. The name of the Rhodes family comes from the house de Rodez, established after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, by the knight Gerard de Rodez, the baron of Lincolnshire headquartered in Horn Castle. Originally a French name, it was pronounced as Ro-day, just as you do here. Eventually this morphed to de Rodes, de Rhodes, then simply Rhodes. The name comes from Rodez, Averyon, France, which in turn is named from the Ruteni Celtic tribe which inhabited the region back in Roman times. The root of course is speculated to be *roudos, or red/yellow-red, making the Ruteni "the red-haired ones". But yes, even as the Rhodes- of Rhodesia is today pronounced as "roads", the ro-day pronunciation is historically the most evocative and rich.
Why shouldn't the white minority fight to retain control? They built the damned country -- it didn't exist before Rhodes. Before colonial rule there were only tribes who spent most of their time selling each other as slaves to Islamic slave traders. Rhodesia was a step to end the slave trade on the East Coast of Africa.
If by "save" you mean concentrate 80% of the wealth of an entire nation into 8% of the population, then yes, the Europeans did "save" the country. Imagine how much less conflict and poverty there would be in Zinbabwe today if the whites had just peacefully given up their power and ended the apartheid state.
I served in the RLI as a second loot and platoon leader (#1 Commando) and looking back at what we went through I am convinced that we were the best concentrated fighting force in the world at the time. Go SAINTS!👍👍
The war was not about whites vs. blacks. Get this one wrong and you will be morally responsible for future conflict. History is more serious than you might think.
It sits they way it is because Kifers are just stupid and need to always be given things. What was once the bread basket of that continent now can not even feed it self.
I'm proud to be Rhodesian!!!! (Born in Wankie and grew up in Bulawayo) I will NEVER apologise for being Rhodesian. The countries today are WOKE, the governments never protect their citizens from terrorism ... that give them citizenship!!! I was busy watching John Edmund today doing an update video. We were a force to reckon with. The only way to destroy us was through politics and South Africa were traitors to us. Rhodesians never die, they just fade way.
Let me get this right ? White colonzers come and forcefully occupy a land and oppress the indigenous populations and get sad when people free themselves ?a place were 10 % of the population owned. 70% of the wealth while the black majority rotted away in reserves and get mad when there is an eventual rebellion.lol.
Nkomo and mugabi worked for the communist governments in Peking and Moscow Why do you say they were trying to get independence for Rhodesia when they were on the payroll of the communist party?
