Part One: Ian Smith: The Prime Minister of Rhodesia
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What is the background of Ian Smith and Rhodesia?
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Yeah! Sure.
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How did the British Empire influence the founding of Rhodesia?
are in the world and uh we have had some amazing guests lately we literally on tuesday uh i'm like when is next tuesday it'll be chewy babe if you are a fan of bad bunny you're a fan of chewy probably so tune in it's gonna be a great episode that rocks that rocks cool and uh this is my first episode back after i mean it's not the first episode you'll hear me it's my first episode you guys on the reddit ian's a real person oh yes he is very much real oh yeah we have one episode with our our producer ian instead of sophie and i forgot to do a separate introduction because i wasn't there to remind you
Yeah, Ian Johnson is a supervising producer. Cool Zone Media, really great guy. Can't say enough nice things. But that is who was filling in for me. And nobody reminded Robert that he should have said that. Introduced separately our producer. Yeah, that was my bad. But to the subreddit, I'm safe. And that was Ian.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah. Well done.
I fucked up. But you know who did? Well, actually, we're going to talk about people who fucked up today. Absolutely. We're talking about... Becca, what do you know about Rhodesia?
Yeah.
You know, I'm going to say not much. Okay. Okay. Not much. That's good. They've come up a few times in previous episodes of our podcast. Like Rhodesia is kind of like a specter haunting the white supremacist cause for the last like several decades in the U.S. and abroad. Yeah. And so we've talked around Rhodesia. We've talked about like how Soldier of Fortune used to try to recruit like white racists in America to fight for the Rhodesian army in Africa. But we haven't talked about Rhodesia directly as like the pure subject of an episode. We talked about that fucking guy who got wrongfully blamed for doing the anthrax attacks in the U.S. who like volunteered for the Rhodesian army. Oh, yes. We've talked around Rhodesia a bunch, but this week we're talking about Ian Smith, who was the prime minister of Rhodesia for its entire existence as what you might call an independent country, although it's never recognized by the rest.
of the world is an independent country. But the kind of TLDR, before we get into this, is that Rhodesia was a state in southern Central Africa that was started as like a colony of the British Empire and declared its own independence illegally from Great Britain in the late 20th century and fought like a 20-year war against the black majority of the country, which was fought by like the white colonists who owned all of the guns. And eventually they failed and Rhodesia became Zimbabwe. And that's like the long story, short version, right?
What were the early conflicts in Rhodesia and their implications?
So we're going to talk about how all of that happened this week. Are you excited, Becca? Woo! Let's get into it. Yeah, you should be. You should be.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the background of Ian Smith and Rhodesia?
0:00–1:13
2
How did the British Empire influence the founding of Rhodesia?
1:13–4:00
3
What were the early conflicts in Rhodesia and their implications?
4:00–6:43
4
How did Ian Smith rise to political power in Rhodesia?
6:43–10:50
5
What role did colonial attitudes play in Rhodesian society?
10:50–14:48
6
How did Rhodesia's legal system reinforce racial divisions?
14:48–17:26
7
What were the economic conditions like for black laborers in Rhodesia?
17:26–22:29
8
What were the long-term impacts of Ian Smith's policies on Rhodesia?
22:29–1:16:41