It’s not surprising.  It’s crap like this MSNBC/Pravda propaganda which infects the minds of Millennials, Twenty-somethings, and unfortunately youth currently in education.
It’s not surprising – but it’s sickening.   Really sickening.    The sad reality is – in their thirst to mold an agenda into reporting they miss a great opportunity to discuss real principles of freedom.   Then again, freedom doesn’t fit within a leftist-minded definition of liberty.
For the institutional left it’s always a mantra: freedom “from” – instead of freedom “of“.
When they use “from” they get to play the victim card and define the acceptable conduct of others.  If the left was forced to affirm freedom “of” they would actually have to drop their hypocritical ideology and accept the very tenet of liberty.
…I digress, here’s MSNBC:

Thankfully, there are a few earnest folks who can actually present the framework of truth surrounding the events at the time (mid-1980’s).    We discussed it yesterday and the following link was shared today:
(Truth Revolt) […]  In an article for Breitbart, columnist Joel Pollak — a native of South Africa — summed up the chaos of the situation quite well.

The ANC [African National Congress] remained banned in the country [South Africa], but its military wing continued to operate within Southern Africa, with assistance from the Soviet Union. The decision to align with the Soviet Union would later haunt the ANC, as it alienated the United States and Great Britain, which were otherwise inclined to support the anti-apartheid movement (and did so, albeit in limited fashion). While Mandela was in prison, the Soviet-trained leaders of the ANC’s army committed human rights abuses in military camps outside the country, and used terror attacks on civilians inside South Africa.

Reagan biographer Craig Shirley also noted earlier this year:

South Africa was racist due to white minority rule but also the only country on the African continent that was strongly anti-communist. The Soviets had a long history of world racism, anti-Semitism and anti-gay. Reagan’s nuanced approach was called ‘Constructive Engagement’ in supporting South Africa’s anti-communism while pushing its government towards the inevitable. Few seem to realize that South Africa made the transition from white minority rule to black majority rule with a minimal loss of life, unlike, say, Rhodesia.

Another article in the Washington Post earlier this year also stated:

Reagan saw sanctions as harmful to the poorest South Africans: millions of blacks living in dire poverty. He also feared that the apartheid regime could be replaced by a Marxist/totalitarian one allied with the Soviet Union and Cuba and that communism would spread throughout the continent. South Africa’s blacks were denied rights under apartheid, but communism would mean no freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion, conscience, emigration, travel or even property for anyone. Moreover, in communist nations such as Cambodia and Ethiopia, people had been slaughtered and starved on mass scales. Nearly a dozen nations had become part of the Soviet orbit in the immediate years before Reagan became president. He didn’t want South Africa to undergo the same catastrophe.

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