What If Rhodesia Survived? | Alternate History

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"What if Rhodesia survived?" You missed a perfect opportunity to ask "What if Rhodesia never died?"

Imagine building a small bit of Europe in Africa that the natives never settled and then having to give it back to the natives and watch it fall to ruin.

What did Zimbabweans use as a light source before candles? Electricity. :)

From being the bread basket of Africa to famine and hyper inflation.

I used to co-teach with a lady from Rhodesia. She was 18 when Rhodesia collapsed. She told me as she had to escape the country they weren’t afraid of Mugabe’s troops, in fact they were kind to her and her sister. But the ones they were terrified of were the Chinese and the North Korean troops.

Long ago I watched a documentary, hosted by a black American, on the progress of independent African countries. In Zimbabwe he was dumbfounded by the native Bantu peoples who said they preferred white minority rule as they all had jobs, money, schooling, peace and far less corruption especially in government. A few years ago I was in hospital and one of the nurses was from Zimbabwe (Shona people). She fled due to the dire poverty, corruption, high inflation and incessant violence. She said to me she wished to go back to the Rhodesia of her parents and grandparents.

Ian Smith and Rhodesia: Everything the world feared this man would do, Mugabe did. Once again, the international community ruined a country. Mugabe, the marxist, ruined both Rhodesia and Zimbabwe while Ian ruined neither. The international community isolated Rhodesia, leaving them helpless against "guerrilla fighters"/terrorists, which proved deadly for all groups. At least Rhodesia had tribal reservations and tribal land purchases, which is far less horrible than the situations Mugabe put both blacks and whites through... Even in Canada there's demographic rules for Quebecois which are there to maintain the Quebecois population percentage, Mugabe didn't do that with white Rhodesians who were born there, he took everything from them and essentially forced them to leave and wonder the world pretending to be south africans. It's kind of just a fact life would be better if Rhodesia still existed

I'm honestly surprised that the US and UK took such a harsh stance against Rhodesia in its fight against literal communists considering the regimes that they supported in Central and South America during this time in the name of anti-communism.

I personally think if Rhodesia had survived. It would have some of the best nature reserves and bio diversity in the world. And less poaching.

Oi, what if the US kept the Panama Canal?

An important point you missed was brought up in "Bitter Harvest", the book that Ian Smith wrote. Right at the start it is mentioned that had the Boers not won out in the election just after WW2 in South Africa, the likelihood that SA (and by extension Rhodesia) would have opened their doors to the millions of displaced Europeans is incredibly high. In doing so it likely would've not been a sizable minority in SA and a negligible one in Rhodesia, but in fact a majority in SA and very large minority in Rhodesia.

This is one of the more fair assessments of Rhodesia from what I've seen. Most people, as soon as they hear the name "Rhodesia", rush to a mic and just do the equivalent of screaming "EVIL" like that character from spongebob.

This is going to make one side of the viewership sad over what was lost, and the other mad that you even reference Rhodesia.

My Grandfather fought in the rhodesian Bush war as a volunteer after doing his national service in the british army. Good video by the way!

I was a deputy in the jail in Norfolk, Va. We had an ex RLI solider as a prisoner. Dude was very old. But went into a bank and robbed it with a shotgun. RLI was some crazy people, really crazy kill ratio.

What A Time It Was...

I grew up in Ghana and it's just sad to see Africa being destroyed by Africans. You look at how backward things have become and just have to shake you're head.

Great video mate. 🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻 As a white Zimbabwean of British descent ( formerly Rhodesian ) your video was very well informed about my country and made with a lot of key facts and possible/alternative outcomes. Great work. 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👌🏻🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇬🇧🇬🇧

Did it survive? No. Is it alive in my heart? ,-_- yes