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> If the Apartheid regime of SA had called itself "socialist" there would have been no boycotts or concerts

Well, sure, because the Western anti-Communist support that propped it up wouldn't have existed, so there’d have been nothing to protest or boycott. The US and other Western allies didn't support it and (at a minimum) turn a blind eye to Israel transferring nuclear weapons technology to South Africa independently of it's anti-Communisr orientation.



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