Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

1590.407 - 1612.18 Molly Conger

But I think they knew what it would look like if their decolonization looked exactly like their colony. And we're not talking about a PR loss here. This is the Cold War. They don't want to give the Soviets an opportunity to come in behind them. But it was this policy, or rather defiance of it, that led Rhodesia, under Ian Smith, to make the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965.