What a time it was. Rhodesia and it's hero's will always be remembered for their bravery under fire and the sacrifices they had to make to defend their homes. They stood on their own on against the entire world and for fifteen years they fought the good fight, God bless them.
@kinkajou777 another American here. I'm also among the few who know what Rhodesia is. If only we supported Rhodesia over the lost cause called Vietnam
White people built an amazing civilization ❤ with a stable currency, a thriving economy, plenty of industry manufacturing and agriculture, railroads schools, hospitals, paved streets, airports, universities, plenty of water, lots of electricity and air conditioning, fully stocked grocery store shelves plenty of petrol at all the filling stations no trash on sidewalks no graffiti on the buildings and then everything suddenly collapsed. I wonder what happened
As a black libertarian woman who left Zimbabwe has said the problem wasn't race at all, it was freedom vs. communism. The bad guys won in the usual ways that they do, terrorism, intimidation, outside help from people who didn't understand what was going on, and betrayal.
Funny thing is you can have both if everyone would just fking work together, but no lets fight each other because we look different. Sometimes i wonder what the world would be like if everyone would respect one another
You always get aggrieved with the British with regards to Zimbabwe. They are masters when it comes to backstabbing and betrayal. They betrayed Zim . As a young man I saw Rhodesia and currently in 🇿🇼. It's now a banana republic with a broken system in every facet
Agreed 100% … Thanks to the interference of Britain and American governments they ruined a beautiful country, both black and white Rhodesian’s lived in peace and harmony mostly till 1980 ! Now look at the state of things , the corruption and irresponsible government and management of Zimbabwe has destroyed a beautiful productive economy and created divisions in the communities , but the people of the country are still a good people and have suffered greatly under the Zimbabwe run governments .
Amazing how indigenous seemed to be included in the society and how rich and beautiful looks Rhodesia. Sad to see how some took advantage of situation and broke harmony inside society and bring the actual chaos to an irreversible situation. West is to blame too.
@@ayodejiolowokere1076 Africans were necessarily included because there were very few Europeans, but their prospects for advancement were capped by Smith's "Never in a Thousand Years" policies. There was never any significant threat from the local civilian population to Europeans, even though there was resentment from the better educated. It required a spell of exile, African Nationalist education, and training and weaponry from outside to escalate the situation to bloodshed - bloodshed which could have been headed off by earlier concessions.
@@ayodejiolowokere1076 Yes, the country was functionally segregated, but not in the same legalistic way as South Africa. Rhodesia did not have slavery at any point. Though it is worth pointing out that Nyassalanders sometimes called working in Southern Rhodesia's early mines "chibaro", which was the same word they used for Arab slavery. See: "Chibaro: African Mine Labour in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1933" by Charles van Onselen.
Isn't obvious by now seeing how Rhodesia has gone and South Africa, that the African politician just isn't up to the job . Time to put some conservative Europeans back in charge.
Really? I don't think long term they have a choice. They'll either be under some UN/Big business entity or the Chinese. They can't even maintain railways or mains electricity. Pretty sad. We need to get those of Brit descent back to the ancestral home. In my experience South Africans and Zimbaweans of Brit ancestry are tough, resourceful and hard working, unlike the Uber drivers we're importing these days. @@ayodejiolowokere1076
Rhodesia was the second most powerful country in the region and had the third largest white population. For instance, according to the 'Encyclopaedia Rhodesia', the whites ‘reached 250,000 for the first time in 1971.’ Neighbouring Mozambique (a Portuguese colony) was in fourth place because a census in 1970 showed that it was home to 163,000 whites. Another Portuguese colony, Angola, had the region’s second largest white population, a total of 280,000 in 1970. The country with the largest white population was South Africa. In 1974 a census recorded that there were 4,160,000 whites. (These figures are from Claudia Castelo’s book ‘Passagens para Africa’ and ‘Hutchinson’s Encyclopaedia’).
The PM, Ian Smith DRIVE A MODEST CAR!!! He even frequently got out and walked among the population, unharmed. What about the current leaders? Do they drive modest cars?
(Opening scene) All those Zimbabweans hiding their faces (I.D.) from the camera! If there is a transcript record on public internet of first ZIM Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's national TV broadcast Speech in mid 1980 regarding 'We are ALL One Country Now' I will post it.
I had a friend who had to go to Salisbury just after the communist takeover and she could not get near the government building to do her business. The stench was horrifying. She couldn’t figure out what it was. She thought it was dead bodies rotting in the sun She put a handkerchief over her face and tried to breathe through her mouth it turns out the locals had taken over the government building and loaded it with chickens They brought their chickens with them, and you can imagine the chickens shitting on the lawn and the smell in the hot sun, but that’s the mentality of the locals
Thank you for that, mikerilling 6515. That is a very telling anecdote. How sad. I knew some folks, fellow Americans, who were there on business (none fought in the Rhodesian military), and they all had interesting stories to tell about the land and time.
Imagine what Rhodesia would be like today if it were left alone, I bet there wouldn’t be as much hunger in certain parts of Africa , other countries in Africa might have copied Rhodesia and developed an prospered too
Start saving your money so you can buy bread next week Oh wait There won’t be any bread next week but hey Moooogabbee made you all TRILLIONAIRES before he died and went to HELL 😂
Без перевода понятно за мазеленд,у каждого своя,уважаю противника!!! Но Красная Армия всех сильней от Британских морей, за любовь к Родине и армии Респект!
It's blackpilling what happened to the Rhodies, but especially what happened to the Matabeles/Ndebeles after Rhodesia fell. It's a de facto Shona state. Not only did they genocide the Ndebele people, but they make life for them hard there. If you can't speak Shona it's often very difficult to get service at public institutions, and there's a lot of ethnic nepotism. Even people who are anti-white really don't comprehend the interethnic hatred that there is in places like Zim, it makes black-white racism look like a joke.
I am from the former Soviet Union! I cry when I see what happened to Rhodesia. The imperialists destroyed this wonderful land that had such good prospects
@@eugenevikernua1675 Everyone did. However; while the USSR and the communist bloc of Europe were honest enemies on the other side of an ideological war, it's the west and particularly the UK that stabbed them in the back and did the most damage to them in the end (same with South Africa).
One must be honest. Rhodesians fought bravely were indeed betrayed. But a minority rule by a 5% minority was doomed. They should have opened up earlier, further. In hindsight. But many of the farmers are returning now. So maybe, there is a legacy
What a time it was INDEED Rhodesia had a stable currency a thriving economy, plenty of agriculture and industry, railroads schools, airports, universities, paved streets, safe, clean water lots of electricity and air conditioning plenty of petrol at all the filling stations, fully stocked grocery store shelves no trash on the sidewalk no graffiti on the buildings and then everything crumbled and now you’ve got ZimmGhetto I wonder what happened
The bottom line is why did South Africa stop supporting Rhodesia in 1979 ? Logic shows that it acted as buffer state to the hostile black countries to S.A.
Thay fought for independence. Now there is noting left in zim. Whit Rhodesian forced of there farm. Now they cors the boder illegally into south africa
Why you don't just go to revive Rhodesia yourself why you still dreaming or talking about this country is back You will see country in your dream come back if you "JUST DO IT!!! JUST REVIVE IT BACK!!!" Doing is more immportant than just thinking🍷🗿
What a time it was. Rhodesia and it's hero's will always be remembered for their bravery under fire and the sacrifices they had to make to defend their homes. They stood on their own on against the entire world and for fifteen years they fought the good fight, God bless them.
Their homes were in Britain.
@@ayodejiolowokere1076 As is yours in Nigeria
@@mazambane286 you will notice I'm not imposing rule over indigenous Britons in the UK, alien.
@@ayodejiolowokere1076still not your home
@@SirDrakeFrancis very much my homeland, very much my stock. Let Zimbabwean Bantu tell me where to limit myself, not outsiders.
People came to Rhodesia to see the ruins of Zimbabwe, now people come to Zimbabwe to see the ruins of Rhodesia
Huh? It was not "Zimbabwe" prior to Rhodesia.
@@LostInMarxism Search ruins of Zimbabwe in google😅
There was a Zimbabwean tribal monarchy that had ruins of forests and structures it’s a major site in Zimbabwe
@@LostInMarxism he refers to the Zimbabwe Ruins
Love it,
Rhodesians never die.
@@kinkajou777 HAIL IAN SMITH!
@@joenobody5696 HAIL IAN SMITH!!
Never die🤟
@kinkajou777 another American here. I'm also among the few who know what Rhodesia is. If only we supported Rhodesia over the lost cause called Vietnam
@@kinkajou777 you're okay with the segregation?
We should have never embargoed rhodesia.
Now the UK is losing their own identity on home soil without a shot being fired...
This is the best bloody video I have ever seen!
Thank you 'Troopie Roland' for the rare vintage film clips 'look into Independent Rhodesian' life and events, and your the empowering Song.
Thank you for your music. You've paved in stone and words memories of beautiful Rhodesia. From Russia with respect and love.
White people built an amazing civilization ❤
with a stable currency, a thriving economy, plenty of industry manufacturing and agriculture, railroads schools, hospitals, paved streets, airports, universities, plenty of water, lots of electricity and air conditioning, fully stocked grocery store shelves plenty of petrol at all the filling stations no trash on sidewalks no graffiti on the buildings and then everything suddenly collapsed.
I wonder what happened
As a black libertarian woman who left Zimbabwe has said the problem wasn't race at all, it was freedom vs. communism. The bad guys won in the usual ways that they do, terrorism, intimidation, outside help from people who didn't understand what was going on, and betrayal.
self inflicted pain enjoy it Zim
Rhodesia was so amazing!❤❤❤
One Great Song!
Sit Nomine Digna 👍
She was worthy of her name.
Świetny film
Pozdrawiam
Who needs food if you have diversity and rich black culture? We need that in America too
Funny thing is you can have both if everyone would just fking work together, but no lets fight each other because we look different. Sometimes i wonder what the world would be like if everyone would respect one another
Stay mad.
@@ayodejiolowokere1076
Stay eating stray dogs.
@@gold8857 was that supposed to be offensive?
@@ayodejiolowokere1076
No, it was just a reminder of your miserable Zimbabwean reality
From the time before the dakness descended
Long live Rhodesia, respect from the States.😎👍
What on EARTH could have happened, I wonder?
lol. The left and diversity
moo gayboy happened and the self destruction that always accompanies socialism
Marxism happened, that's what happened...
You always get aggrieved with the British with regards to Zimbabwe. They are masters when it comes to backstabbing and betrayal. They betrayed Zim . As a young man I saw Rhodesia and currently in 🇿🇼. It's now a banana republic with a broken system in every facet
Get ready to flush your toilet at 4pm to clear the sewer
Agreed 100% … Thanks to the interference of Britain and American governments they ruined a beautiful country, both black and white Rhodesian’s lived in peace and harmony mostly till 1980 ! Now look at the state of things , the corruption and irresponsible government and management of Zimbabwe has destroyed a beautiful productive economy and created divisions in the communities , but the people of the country are still a good people and have suffered greatly under the Zimbabwe run governments .
@@rhodesia1578 The Shona took revenge on the Ndebele.
But Zimbos are nice people. What dreams could have happened
@@rhodesia1578there was racism and war.
It's not the British who declared UDI...
Rhodesia was a diverse thriving society
… then mugabe ruined everything
A segregated society is diverse? A country with over ninety five percent of its population living hand to mouth is thriving?
😂 seethe and cope crybaby 😂
Seethe and cope Junior 😂
😂😂
Amazing how indigenous seemed to be included in the society and how rich and beautiful looks Rhodesia.
Sad to see how some took advantage of situation and broke harmony inside society and bring the actual chaos to an irreversible situation.
West is to blame too.
What harmony? And if the country was segregated, how were they included?
@@ayodejiolowokere1076 Africans were necessarily included because there were very few Europeans, but their prospects for advancement were capped by Smith's "Never in a Thousand Years" policies. There was never any significant threat from the local civilian population to Europeans, even though there was resentment from the better educated. It required a spell of exile, African Nationalist education, and training and weaponry from outside to escalate the situation to bloodshed - bloodshed which could have been headed off by earlier concessions.
@@markaxworthy2508 the country was segregated.
@@markaxworthy2508 slaves and enslavers coexist. A slave is not included in his enslaver's circle of peers only because he is a constant presence.
@@ayodejiolowokere1076 Yes, the country was functionally segregated, but not in the same legalistic way as South Africa.
Rhodesia did not have slavery at any point.
Though it is worth pointing out that Nyassalanders sometimes called working in Southern Rhodesia's early mines "chibaro", which was the same word they used for Arab slavery. See: "Chibaro: African Mine Labour in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1933" by Charles van Onselen.
They chose Mugabe.
Isn't obvious by now seeing how Rhodesia has gone and South Africa, that the African politician just isn't up to the job . Time to put some conservative Europeans back in charge.
Brits built Rhodesia not French or Germans
And should the African refuse?
@@ayodejiolowokere1076 A wise man would not..an African?
@@mercian7 thank you for your concern, all the same.
Really? I don't think long term they have a choice. They'll either be under some UN/Big business entity or the Chinese. They can't even maintain railways or mains electricity. Pretty sad. We need to get those of Brit descent back to the ancestral home. In my experience South Africans and Zimbaweans of Brit ancestry are tough, resourceful and hard working, unlike the Uber drivers we're importing these days. @@ayodejiolowokere1076
They look like Australians back in the day
Same stock. No different
@@mazambane286 Colonial Brits are exceptional men. History shows us this..Traitors not so much.
Yes, and Australia’s going the same way.
We need to vote no or we will end up like Rhodesia, don’t welcome me to my own country
Rhodesia was the second most powerful country in the region and had the third largest white population. For instance, according to the 'Encyclopaedia Rhodesia', the whites ‘reached 250,000 for the first time in 1971.’
Neighbouring Mozambique (a Portuguese colony) was in fourth place because a census in 1970 showed that it was home to 163,000 whites. Another Portuguese colony, Angola, had the region’s second largest white population, a total of 280,000 in 1970. The country with the largest white population was South Africa. In 1974 a census recorded that there were 4,160,000 whites. (These figures are from Claudia Castelo’s book ‘Passagens para Africa’ and ‘Hutchinson’s Encyclopaedia’).
0:26 Start of the song
😭😭
The PM, Ian Smith DRIVE A MODEST CAR!!! He even frequently got out and walked among the population, unharmed. What about the current leaders? Do they drive modest cars?
(Opening scene) All those Zimbabweans hiding their faces (I.D.) from the camera! If there is a transcript record on public internet of first ZIM Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's national TV broadcast Speech in mid 1980 regarding 'We are ALL One Country Now' I will post it.
Reminds me of Papa Lazarou in The League Of Gentlemen "Your my wife now" 😂
👹@@alexalston7428
I had a friend who had to go to Salisbury just after the communist takeover and she could not get near the government building to do her business. The stench was horrifying. She couldn’t figure out what it was. She thought it was dead bodies rotting in the sun
She put a handkerchief over her face and tried to breathe through her mouth it turns out the locals had taken over the government building and loaded it with chickens
They brought their chickens with them, and you can imagine the chickens shitting on the lawn and the smell in the hot sun, but that’s the mentality of the locals
Thank you for that, mikerilling 6515. That is a very telling anecdote. How sad. I knew some folks, fellow Americans, who were there on business (none fought in the Rhodesian military), and they all had interesting stories to tell about the land and time.
Imagine what Rhodesia would be like today if it were left alone, I bet there wouldn’t be as much hunger in certain parts of Africa , other countries in Africa might have copied Rhodesia and developed an prospered too
Start saving your money so you can buy bread next week
Oh wait
There won’t be any bread next week but hey
Moooogabbee made you all TRILLIONAIRES before he died and went to HELL 😂
Our Glorious Rhodesia has become ZimmGhetto
Ein gute Zeit.
Chris Dixon belongs on the Rhodesian Mt. Rushmore!
Без перевода понятно за мазеленд,у каждого своя,уважаю противника!!! Но Красная Армия всех сильней от Британских морей, за любовь к Родине и армии Респект!
Make Zimbabwe Rhodesia again
Just like SA ,the " new " Zimbabwe is a sh.....t hole !!!
It's blackpilling what happened to the Rhodies, but especially what happened to the Matabeles/Ndebeles after Rhodesia fell. It's a de facto Shona state. Not only did they genocide the Ndebele people, but they make life for them hard there. If you can't speak Shona it's often very difficult to get service at public institutions, and there's a lot of ethnic nepotism.
Even people who are anti-white really don't comprehend the interethnic hatred that there is in places like Zim, it makes black-white racism look like a joke.
well, my day is ruined
Какую СТРАНУ уничтожили политики......
I am from the former Soviet Union! I cry when I see what happened to Rhodesia. The imperialists destroyed this wonderful land that had such good prospects
to be correct, communists did it as well
@@eugenevikernua1675 Everyone did. However; while the USSR and the communist bloc of Europe were honest enemies on the other side of an ideological war, it's the west and particularly the UK that stabbed them in the back and did the most damage to them in the end (same with South Africa).
One must be honest. Rhodesians fought bravely were indeed betrayed. But a minority rule by a 5% minority was doomed. They should have opened up earlier, further. In hindsight. But many of the farmers are returning now. So maybe, there is a legacy
Sad
What a time it was INDEED
Rhodesia had a stable currency a thriving economy, plenty of agriculture and industry, railroads schools, airports, universities, paved streets, safe, clean water lots of electricity and air conditioning plenty of petrol at all the filling stations, fully stocked grocery store shelves no trash on the sidewalk no graffiti on the buildings and then everything crumbled and now you’ve got ZimmGhetto
I wonder what happened
The bottom line is why did South Africa stop supporting Rhodesia in 1979 ?
Logic shows that it acted as buffer state to the hostile black countries to S.A.
Thay fought for independence. Now there is noting left in zim. Whit Rhodesian forced of there farm. Now they cors the boder illegally into south africa
Why you don't just go to revive Rhodesia yourself why you still dreaming or talking about this country is back
You will see country in your dream come back if you "JUST DO IT!!! JUST REVIVE IT BACK!!!" Doing is more immportant than just thinking🍷🗿