Rhodesia, the Boers & Croatians – What Rhodesia stood for…
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Video & Audio: Loving Life: Jans personal discussions with President PW Botha
In 2006 as a result of my book, Government by Deception and my website AfricanCrisis, I made contact with former President PW Botha. He was very nice to me and he began phoning me. I published articles of things he told me about. He was so impressed with my accuracy when I wrote on my website what he told me, that he later invited me to stay at his house for 5 days. In this interview, I discuss some of the things that PW Botha and I discussed, and what he told me.
I sent a Rhodesian army colonel I know this quote from a Croatian on my website:
Hi J,I did a video about why Britain did not invade Rhodesia. A Croatian I know posted this. The Croatians fought and won their war of independence in the 1990s. Their leader who guided their future, their "Ian Smith" if you will, was Pavelic. This is what he said about my Rhodesian video:
So many parallels with Croatia. After being defeated in ww2 and incorporated into Communist Yugoslavia accusations of treason to Pavelić (the Croatian leader in ww2) were numerous. You will not get your own country for free or without blood and risk. There is a famous quote by Pavelić "We have in this endeavour (statehood/independence) given many sacrifices, but a People who is not capable of making sacrifices is not capable of living."
And that is how I see Rhodesian UDI. A risk that failed.
The colonel replied to me as follows:-
Hi Jan,
The second Anglo-Boer war should have indicated the consequences of taking on a political war with unequal odds. However, we had the Congo experience fresh in our minds, and a belief that we were a bastion against communism in Africa, with right on our side.
Almost every country in Africa has gone through one or more coups and periods of dictatorship, and what we predicted would happen if black majority rule came about in Rhodesia is there for all to see.
[The above gives some perspective from the Colonel about how the Rhodesians of the time saw the future in their stand in the 1960s. They truly believed in their cause as a bastion of civilisation and progress … in a typical European style. Jan]
Video & Audio: Gods of War: When the Germans didnt stand a chance! The Battle of Crete
This was a battle the Germans should never have won. They didnt know it, but EVERYTHING was stacked against them. If Hitler and the Generals had known the real facts, they would NEVER have launched this attack.
