We as a commonwealth forced them into the terrible situation in which they found themselves, and we should all be ashamed of that fact. Rest easy Mr Smith, we now know that you only ever wanted the best for ALL your countrymen.
@Dugie Doogs Albion stabbed Rhodesia in the front, South African National party stabbed Rhodesia in the front. South African were fools to let the National Party do to South Africa what they had already done to Rhodesia and SWA.
Ian smith was always right before i was born and my father was still a child around the same time the bush wars took place ian smith was always fucking right
I remember one day, 1993, I think, I was walking on First Street, Harare, with my father. I saw a group of Black people burst into spontaneous applause for this elderly White man, who waved back at them and hurried on. We made eye contact, and he nodded at me so I nodded back. "Who was that?"I asked my father. "Don't you recognise him?" he said. "Ian Smith." "The Rhodesian Prime Minister?" I asked, astonished at the fact that I had just seen a group of Black people cheer him on. "I thought he was the bad guy who killed Black people." My father sighed. "You have a lot to learn, sir," he said. (By the way, I was born 4 years before Independence, so all I know about how bad things were under Smith is what my generation was told. Mugabe on the other hand.....)
In terms of economic matters I would put gaddafi up there as well. Both were anti communists although gaddafi was also a anti capitalist and took the third position where as smit was for free market capitalism but nevertheless using there own methods turned extremely poor countries into extremely developed countries with lots of infrastructure and the best economies in Africa.
There's also Sir Seretse Khama. He was the man that turned Botsuana into the rich country as it is today. Allthough he is not that well known, he definetly deserves to be named one of africas best leaders
@@TheLocalLt lmao no it talked and made agreements with the west and also had support from western nations. Its the same to say yep france is a us capitalist satellite cuz they supported them and hsd aid for them. You didnt even gave any reasons like bruh
But in all sincerity tho, I wish he was knighted before Rhodesia’s transition to a republic. He was ostracized and scapegoated by the international community but was nothing like the monstrosity of Hendrik Verwoerd in South Africa. He was a great man who lead his country to a better place only for Mugabe to destroyed what he had developed. He deserved that knighthood.
@@DMH-bt2zo That he wasn't knighted is probably good indication he wasn't one of the weirdos pulling strings in the UK. The title means little when it has the likes of Sir Jimmy Savile, Sir Edward Heath
@@SymphonyBrahmsIn what audacity and incompetence do you have the right to say that about the great Ian Douglas Smith. He was by no means a monster, criminal, or public enemy. His ostracism by the global community was not at all justified. So quit saying that he was a bad person. He was nothing in the likes of that.
Well said, the proportion of success of the country depends on the proportion of whites that stay in the country. The whites left or were pushed out and the country went down hill.
@@mandlamasuku7913 Really!😏, is that the reason why millions are living & working in the diaspora and remitting money back to Zim to support their families. If all was hunky dory for the Zimbawean people, there would've been no need to leave beautiful Zimbabwe - FACE FACTS 🤨.
For the first time I have to agree that Smith was a great statesman. Very pragmatic. Very realistic. His biggest mistake was to maintain discriminatory laws against Blacks. Had the settlers stayed on the other side of Umnyathi river, surely even today they would have been in charge. You know what I mean. In my culture we respect men for their character and capabilities. Smith, you were a respectable enemy.
Although I am not personally a big fan of Ian Smith, I applaud you for thinking in terms of post-racial politics and seeing through a man’s skin colour 👏
What is now Zambia, was also Rhodesia. With Rhodesia as it was before, Zimbabwe and Zambia, the persons who wanted to work farming could, and of course maybe include textiles, clothing, shoes, metal trade works, medical, and other employment. With some persons, being brutal is where their emotional maturity level is in the moment. As with me, I had wanted to join the USMC, I did, 06 September 1983. I did look into the U. S. Naval Academy, and VMI Attending VMI was my choice. Yet I did not follow through. Staying as an non commissioned officer was good, too. Operated 100 ton boats, later USCG. The point is that I am limited in my abilities, and being a Ship officer, say XO, was not my capabilities. And not being brutal to still take what you want and not desire or be able to work the task. We all need to know what we are capable in, work. Looking to a future and how to obtain morally and peacefully. With past hurts, unite, and not hold a grudge. Go forth together where you all are.
While ancient Rhodesia was a major exporter of agricultural products, 80% of the food needed today is imported. The brutal eviction of white farmers - Appaling crimes even on white Children- and their staff by the arsonist gangs activated by the Mugabe regime led to the displacement and misery of tens of thousands of agricultural workers
Here in Brazil we tried to establish recognition and relations with Rhodesia, but the project actually came to fruition in 1961, with the creation of a consulate in Salisbury, where any citizen of the two countries could issue passports and other documents. We also paid homage to Rhodesia by naming streets in the state of São Paulo.
In Iowa City, Iowa, a State once overwhelmingly white, the very first icon for students is an enormous mural of a distinctly ethnic woman on the main thoroughfare to this University town. In ways both obvious and covert, "multiculturalism" is cultivated as the social and political ideal, endlessly extolled in the halls of academia. A friend of mine, who happens to be "African-American" - as blacks are called in the USA - believes nearly half of white women on campus miscegenate with black men, a cultural norm easily extrapolated across the entire country. But there are always abortion clinics operating in overdrive nearby to ensure birth control for these enriched ladies.
Well written. All of Western Civilization lives inside the Antiwhite Narrative (where nonwhites are held up as virtuous and whites are portrayed as evil). This has been brewing since WWII. A major component of the Antiwhite Narrative is that white women should spread their legs for blacks, and give birth to non-white children, thereby helping to bring an end to the white race.
Humanforfreedom95. 👍👏 My exact sentiments! We live in a world full of *yellow livered* hypocritical world leaders with half or no backbone at all. We have seen & experienced it all in the last 60 years. We are living in the CLAY era in this simulation- not long to go before this drama ends!!!! 😶
That Mugabe destroyed Zimbabwe is no justification for colonialism and racism. Good riddance. I dislike racism and colonialism even more - having the delusion to “discover” a place others already live.
A bit of self-righteousness there, and a lot of stupidity. The Shona and Ndebele were 'colonists', just ask the bushmen about that. What you don't like is that the when the British colonised the place, they were white and their culture was so far in advance of the local ones that they could do so completely; that and they did such a good job of it.
@@ginojaco Even if what you said was factually correct, which it isn’t, I don’t see how any of what you said justified the British colonizing Africa. From what you said, I can clearly see how advanced the British were. I have no idea how I missed that part! Well, it might be something to do with my not being white, which you clearly understand how it makes someone less advanced.
@@bvumawaranda Idiotic; a teenage-like response, although we cannot - of course - be entirely certain as to whether your misconstrual is deliberate or not. You need to explain what is factually incorrect - but, then, we all know that had you been able to do so, you already would have...
@@ginojaco you might actually be correct in characterizing my response as idiotic but I don’t understand how our exchange to this point justifies colonialism. Let’s say you have all the facts - everything you said is correct. How does that justify British colonialism?
@@bvumawaranda Are you really asking for historical acts to be 'justified' i.e. reconciled to and by modern prejudices and values? That goes beyond daft... do you live now by the values of someone from the 22nd Century and, if so, how? Of course you don't; we live and act according to the morals and norms of our times and societies. That's why British colonialism of the 19th and 20th Centuries needs no more 'justification' now than that of the Zulus in the 18th and 19th Centuries does. None of it was 'wrong' to them at those times, and that's the end of it.
A hero, a legend and a statesman
Only world leader I’ve ever seen walk off a plane with his own luggage....
One of the most important comments about this video, this alone describes the type of man he was.
@@Matt-rq3bu what's with the hero worship of a leader of some ridiculous unrecognized and illegal minority led racist and de jure segregated state?
We as a commonwealth forced them into the terrible situation in which they found themselves, and we should all be ashamed of that fact. Rest easy Mr Smith, we now know that you only ever wanted the best for ALL your countrymen.
@Dugie Doogs Albion stabbed Rhodesia in the front, South African National party stabbed Rhodesia in the front. South African were fools to let the National Party do to South Africa what they had already done to Rhodesia and SWA.
Ian smith was always right before i was born and my father was still a child around the same time the bush wars took place ian smith was always fucking right
All that is true but we should of stood by family
@@Dom-ny7vh "should of"?
What does that mean, tell me?
All of his white countrymen.
I remember one day, 1993, I think, I was walking on First Street, Harare, with my father. I saw a group of Black people burst into spontaneous applause for this elderly White man, who waved back at them and hurried on. We made eye contact, and he nodded at me so I nodded back. "Who was that?"I asked my father. "Don't you recognise him?" he said. "Ian Smith." "The Rhodesian Prime Minister?" I asked, astonished at the fact that I had just seen a group of Black people cheer him on. "I thought he was the bad guy who killed Black people." My father sighed. "You have a lot to learn, sir," he said. (By the way, I was born 4 years before Independence, so all I know about how bad things were under Smith is what my generation was told. Mugabe on the other hand.....)
Stfu mtengesi. Pamberi he ZANU.
Rock star.
Many black Africans fought for Rhodesia
In fact at the dawn of majority rule they formed the majority of security forces
Your father really had a lot to learn himself....
Ian Smith was the best leader in history of Africa. Name someone else. It's ridiculous to even attempt it.
In terms of economic matters I would put gaddafi up there as well. Both were anti communists although gaddafi was also a anti capitalist and took the third position where as smit was for free market capitalism but nevertheless using there own methods turned extremely poor countries into extremely developed countries with lots of infrastructure and the best economies in Africa.
@@billygiles3276 facts right here
There's also Sir Seretse Khama. He was the man that turned Botsuana into the rich country as it is today. Allthough he is not that well known, he definetly deserves to be named one of africas best leaders
billy giles huh? Ghaddafi was a socialist Soviet satellite
@@TheLocalLt lmao no it talked and made agreements with the west and also had support from western nations. Its the same to say yep france is a us capitalist satellite cuz they supported them and hsd aid for them. You didnt even gave any reasons like bruh
God bless this man.
He knew black majority rule would result in Zembabwe, which is why he fought against it.
And lost badly at the hands of the Patriotic Front, both militarily and politically.
@@brianmuvuti2102 Case and point.
ruclips.net/video/CZjFZjZBD78/видео.html
@Katherine Sparkes good one.
He was a racist.
@@brianmuvuti2102 HA HA HA HA It lost to the British, who served the colony to Mugabe in a silver plate. Fuck Elizabeth II, forever
The best of the best a man with wisdom and knowledge
Long live Sir Ian Smith s Legacy 🙏 🙌
He was not a Sir. To be called Sir you have to be knighted by the queen. And he was never knighted.
+ from 1970 Rhodesia became a republic
But in all sincerity tho, I wish he was knighted before Rhodesia’s transition to a republic. He was ostracized and scapegoated by the international community but was nothing like the monstrosity of Hendrik Verwoerd in South Africa. He was a great man who lead his country to a better place only for Mugabe to destroyed what he had developed. He deserved that knighthood.
@@DMH-bt2zo That he wasn't knighted is probably good indication he wasn't one of the weirdos pulling strings in the UK. The title means little when it has the likes of Sir Jimmy Savile, Sir Edward Heath
@@Reminisciences So you’re saying that Ian Douglas Smith was someone undeserving or unworthy of a knighthood?
The Greatest Prime Minister ever!!!! 🇳🇫🇳🇫🇳🇫
Right after Genghis Khan.
@@SymphonyBrahmsIn what audacity and incompetence do you have the right to say that about the great Ian Douglas Smith. He was by no means a monster, criminal, or public enemy. His ostracism by the global community was not at all justified. So quit saying that he was a bad person. He was nothing in the likes of that.
Christmas Island flags? Lol
Well said, the proportion of success of the country depends on the proportion of whites that stay in the country. The whites left or were pushed out and the country went down hill.
Zimbabwe is not down hill ,don't lie you people ,blacks are more than happy than they were in Rhodesia
@@mandlamasuku7913 Really!😏, is that the reason why millions are living & working in the diaspora and remitting money back to Zim to support their families. If all was hunky dory for the Zimbawean people, there would've been no need to leave beautiful Zimbabwe - FACE FACTS 🤨.
@@mandlamasuku7913you’re insane.
God bless his soul
For the first time I have to agree that Smith was a great statesman. Very pragmatic. Very realistic. His biggest mistake was to maintain discriminatory laws against Blacks. Had the settlers stayed on the other side of Umnyathi river, surely even today they would have been in charge. You know what I mean. In my culture we respect men for their character and capabilities. Smith, you were a respectable enemy.
Watch his interview with William Buckley. It's very interesting.
Although I am not personally a big fan of Ian Smith, I applaud you for thinking in terms of post-racial politics and seeing through a man’s skin colour 👏
What is now Zambia, was also Rhodesia.
With Rhodesia as it was before, Zimbabwe and Zambia, the persons who wanted to work farming could, and of course maybe include textiles, clothing, shoes, metal trade works, medical, and other employment.
With some persons, being brutal is where their emotional maturity level is in the moment.
As with me, I had wanted to join the USMC, I did, 06 September 1983.
I did look into the U. S. Naval Academy, and VMI
Attending VMI was my choice. Yet I did not follow through. Staying as an non commissioned officer was good, too.
Operated 100 ton boats, later USCG.
The point is that I am limited in my abilities, and being a Ship officer, say XO, was not my capabilities.
And not being brutal to still take what you want and not desire or be able to work the task.
We all need to know what we are capable in, work.
Looking to a future and how to obtain morally and peacefully.
With past hurts, unite, and not hold a grudge.
Go forth together where you all are.
Long live Rhodesia
Rhodesians never die!
0:47 is that Ed Sheeran getting off the plane with Mr. Smith?
The world should have left Zimbabwe-Rhodesia to sort out their own affairs. Things might have been very different.
While ancient Rhodesia was a major exporter of agricultural products, 80% of the food needed today is imported. The brutal eviction of white farmers - Appaling crimes even on white Children- and their staff by the arsonist gangs activated by the Mugabe regime led to the displacement and misery of tens of thousands of agricultural workers
Him stepping out of the plane with his bags that's the difference.
Kamnangwa kato ruza change a bit totangira ipapo.This great Country derseves more.
He knew...but still tried to keep it together. Zimbabwe has beautiful people but a dysfunctional, greedy, self-serving government.
Ek is jammer Ian, ek is jammer ons het ons rug op jou gedraai. Rus in vrede, kameraad, en mag God ons almal genaadig wees
Here in Brazil we tried to establish recognition and relations with Rhodesia, but the project actually came to fruition in 1961, with the creation of a consulate in Salisbury, where any citizen of the two countries could issue passports and other documents. We also paid homage to Rhodesia by naming streets in the state of São Paulo.
@@mr.drake1751 based Brazil
In Iowa City, Iowa, a State once overwhelmingly white, the very first icon for students is an enormous mural of a distinctly ethnic woman on the main thoroughfare to this University town.
In ways both obvious and covert, "multiculturalism" is cultivated as the social and political ideal, endlessly extolled in the halls of academia.
A friend of mine, who happens to be "African-American" - as blacks are called in the USA - believes nearly half of white women on campus miscegenate with black men, a cultural norm easily extrapolated across the entire country. But there are always abortion clinics operating in overdrive nearby to ensure birth control for these enriched ladies.
@@crazyeight9 you are right.
Well written. All of Western Civilization lives inside the Antiwhite Narrative (where nonwhites are held up as virtuous and whites are portrayed as evil). This has been brewing since WWII. A major component of the Antiwhite Narrative is that white women should spread their legs for blacks, and give birth to non-white children, thereby helping to bring an end to the white race.
So what? Let people have sex with whatever race they want to.
Shut up nazi fuck
And by the way, racial equality is the right thing to do. Racial inequality is the evil thing to do.
Season 2 episide 12: Smith's conference
Smith was a 19th century man living in a 20th century world. Rhodesia was doomed from day one.
Every occupation force is doomed from day one especially if the land do not belongs to them historically.....
I've read that thousands of white Rhodesians are now living in Australia and have a good life there. So why are some of them complaining?
Because their land was stolen from them and then run into the ground by people who did not know how to run a country.
@@thesmithersy it was never their land.
@@ayodejiolowokere1076 Actually it was. Only the MAtabeles were there around Bulawayo, Salisbury was unclaimed land.
@@thesmithersy Ft. Salisbury was founded in Matabeleland.
Just stop. Your lot will always be liars, you were then and that hasn't changed.
@@ayodejiolowokere1076 My lot? What do you mean by my lot?
THANKS AGAIN JEWS!!!!!
detters von dettersdorf in truth Israel was literally the only nation to not make a weapons embargo.
Israel was one of the only countries to never cut ties with apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia, don't blame us for this one.
@@kingbibihabibi Kissinger, Oppneheimer, Slovo, etc, Jews did to Rhodesia exactly what they later did to SWA and South Africa.
@@dreamdiction And what's tour point? No to one man one vote? Minority ruling the majority?
Humanforfreedom95. 👍👏 My exact sentiments! We live in a world full of *yellow livered* hypocritical world leaders with half or no backbone at all. We have seen & experienced it all in the last 60 years. We are living in the CLAY era in this simulation- not long to go before this drama ends!!!! 😶
That Mugabe destroyed Zimbabwe is no justification for colonialism and racism. Good riddance. I dislike racism and colonialism even more - having the delusion to “discover” a place others already live.
A bit of self-righteousness there, and a lot of stupidity. The Shona and Ndebele were 'colonists', just ask the bushmen about that. What you don't like is that the when the British colonised the place, they were white and their culture was so far in advance of the local ones that they could do so completely; that and they did such a good job of it.
@@ginojaco Even if what you said was factually correct, which it isn’t, I don’t see how any of what you said justified the British colonizing Africa.
From what you said, I can clearly see how advanced the British were. I have no idea how I missed that part! Well, it might be something to do with my not being white, which you clearly understand how it makes someone less advanced.
@@bvumawaranda Idiotic; a teenage-like response, although we cannot - of course - be entirely certain as to whether your misconstrual is deliberate or not. You need to explain what is factually incorrect - but, then, we all know that had you been able to do so, you already would have...
@@ginojaco you might actually be correct in characterizing my response as idiotic but I don’t understand how our exchange to this point justifies colonialism. Let’s say you have all the facts - everything you said is correct. How does that justify British colonialism?
@@bvumawaranda Are you really asking for historical acts to be 'justified' i.e. reconciled to and by modern prejudices and values? That goes beyond daft... do you live now by the values of someone from the 22nd Century and, if so, how? Of course you don't; we live and act according to the morals and norms of our times and societies. That's why British colonialism of the 19th and 20th Centuries needs no more 'justification' now than that of the Zulus in the 18th and 19th Centuries does. None of it was 'wrong' to them at those times, and that's the end of it.