Some of the Rhodesia worshippers from Russia and Ukraine are “respectable white supremacists”, so to say. Or just conservatives. Respectable, because the ex-Soviet republics have a different tolerance limit for this stuff, despite (or probably because of) the Soviet past.

Others though are in the Gone with the Wind, bullshit romanticism mode. It is racist, effectively, given the regime they glorify, and they are enablers of the worse racism, but they probably don’t think of themselves as racists and can otherwise hold a variety of liberal views. One Ukrainian writer who translated her share of poetry about Rhodesia is otherwise an outspoken feminist and LGBT-rights support.

50 shades of grey, indeed.