You also thave the benefit of hindsight to know that Rhodesia was a racist shithole far worse for balck Zimbaweans who constituite more than 95% of the population.
Mugabe didn't start off "bad". As an activist before the Civil war he was hardly any different from Mandela, he was an inspiration to the majority of blacks and was imprisoned and tortured for speaking his mind. Had the Rhodesians decided to not supress the rights of blacks and had instead tried to achieve a proper comprimise that would have ensured that the black majority could rule, then we would have a very different Zimbabwe. Instead they were willing to fight a civil war to protect white supremacy instead of realising the writing on the wall(which even the racist government in South Africa was able to see)
Saying Stalin(Mugabe) is bad does not make the Nazi's(Rhodesians) good.
Tell that to the 20,000+ black Ndebele Zimbabweans Mugabe killed in the first 7 years of office in a genocidal campaign.He eclipsed the kill numbers of the bush war easily through this and his man made famines.
A better comparison would be, just because Nicholas the second caused huge amounts of deaths, and attacked all opposition, does not mean that those who fought him would not end up committing even greater crimes.
And you can’t really say Mugabe gets any points getting rid of white supremacy when he almost instantly replaced it with a Shona supremacy.
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