The distortions remain

Soviet, Not Russian | Clarissa's Blog

Ideological warfare often deliberately entails obscuring true identities. I read that when the insurgency started in Rhodesia, the spokesmen referred to the British settlers in that country as "Boers". Those are the originally Dutch settlers, speaking Afrikaans, much further south. But ever since the war, thirty years ago, there are few Australians who can differentiate between Zimbabwe and South Africa. So the distortions remain.