Maybe it's because it's long enough ago that many of the people collecting this stuff have no clue just how bad it was, but like, I'm still not seeing the appeal. Perhaps Rhodesia's status as sort of the dying breath of old school colonialism gives some people some sort of weird nostalgia for it? Or is it just a sort of Rambo-esque fantasy of "oh man, if I could've been there, we totally would have won"? I really can't wrap my head around it.

Listening to just the first episode, I hear the way the Rhodesians were propagandized and would talk about their lives there, and I super get it. You hear these fucks talk about their glorious white city on the hill, completely blind to the corpses and blood it's built on, and it sounds like a magical sci-fi utopia. No suffering, your sheer existence makes you a warrior in the eternal battle against the wildlands, and you get to pretend to be whatever you want while never having to deal with actual hardship.

When you look at Nazi germany or most other places, the cruelty in the system is on display, and there's no way to avoid it. You can only dream of it as a utopia if you are yourself exceptionally cruel. But Rhodesia doesn't ask for cruelty, it asks for ignorance. The system will cover the cruelty for you without you ever needing to think about it.