CNN The Situation Room December 6, 2013 22:37:00
United states government was supportive of south africa's apartheid regime because they were our allies in the cold war. we have been taught since the cold war by politicians that have said it again and again that the cold war was simply a struggle for freedom in which we were on the side of the angels and the soviet union was on the side ofevil. the soviet union was an evil regime but there is another story of the cold war, a story that mandela's life shows, that americans don't like to talk about that much. those are all the moments during the cold war where, in the name of anti-communism, w...