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Recently on the Twilight 2000 forum I encountered a discussion about Africa in Twilight 2000. I made a post that pretty much diverted the discussion to whether apartheid would still exist in a world where the USSR also existed. The crux of the argument by some posters was that as long as the USSR existed, the US, Britain and other western governments would have tacitly supported the white regime in order to prevent that country turning communist and becoming a Soviet client state, as well as control of the sea lanes between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, because the ANC and other anti-apartheid groups were backed by the Soviets, among others. You can find the discussion here.

So what I'm asking is, would a USSR surviving until the present day have also meant apartheid lasting until modern times? I've always thought that apartheid was already on the way out by the late 80s due to a combination of the international sanctions, internal unrest and a recognition by De Klerk and others that S. Africa was going to have to reform or go down in flames.
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