I remember watching it on TV. The actor Brian Blessed served as MC. I remember a NY anchorette, Dana Tyler, commenting "Wow! The end of colonialism. Amazing."
Global Communists colonize nations and fuel insurgencies and the Left is cool with that.
Saudi Arabia’s theocratic government colonizes nations and fuels Islamist insurgencies and the Left is cool with that.
The talk of “anti-colonialism” was anti-WESTERNISM.
They love Third World dictatorships.