You mean a government elected by whites? Sorry, but if you are disenfranchised and have no democratic outlet, violence is understandable, and probably the only effective chance of gaining that freedom. As for his gaining support from the ussr and other dictatorship, let’s remember that the American revolutionaries were cultivating the support of France and Spain, absolute monarchies of many orders of magnitude worse than Britain, and Churchill cultivated Stalin during wwii out of practical necessity, Mandela was by no means perfect, and whilst the fawning of lefties who consider him to be nothing less than black Jesus are idiots, simply dismissing him as a commie terrorist is also grossly wrong.
Thanks for drawing valid distinctions. One-sided analogies get my goat.
His insistence on not repudiating violence probable made apartheid last 10 years longer. In the end, it was not violence that lead to the changes, but stood in the way of it as one of biggest issues during negotiations. Not saying the SA government was innocent, but to be honest, if they wanted to win that war by force, the ANC was not going stop them.