Max Sinister
Banned
About the Guomindang in Taiwan: Taiwan was a dictatorship or at least an almost-one-party state for many decades, and they received massive amounts of money from the west (esp. the US), since they were an important ally. I don't know whether they'd done that good in a united China if the US hadn't found it that necessary to support them.
About Lopez: he came to power after his father had died (who seemed to be quite competent for a dictator). Lopez wanted to enlarge his empire, and when Brazil tried to install a pro-Brazil government in Uruguay, he attacked them. But the Brazilians managed to make Uruguay stay on their side, and Lopez himself angered off the Argentinians too (which was absolutely unnecessary).
The rest of information - I don't know how reliable it is, I only found one book where it's written in (and it's not a real history book either), but here it is:
- He let his soldiers train that hard for the war, that many died before the war because of this.
- He made one in three soldiers an "internal security" man. They were advised to shoot any of their men (including officers) who they thought might defect during a battle. The soldiers were more afraid of their fellows than of the enemy.
- He tortured his own mother
- He demanded from his cardinals that they'd make him a saint of the church, and when they didn't want, he shot them all.
Sounds unbelievable, but at least I'm sure about the numbers (five sixths of the pop!), and that won't come from nothing...
About Lopez: he came to power after his father had died (who seemed to be quite competent for a dictator). Lopez wanted to enlarge his empire, and when Brazil tried to install a pro-Brazil government in Uruguay, he attacked them. But the Brazilians managed to make Uruguay stay on their side, and Lopez himself angered off the Argentinians too (which was absolutely unnecessary).
The rest of information - I don't know how reliable it is, I only found one book where it's written in (and it's not a real history book either), but here it is:
- He let his soldiers train that hard for the war, that many died before the war because of this.
- He made one in three soldiers an "internal security" man. They were advised to shoot any of their men (including officers) who they thought might defect during a battle. The soldiers were more afraid of their fellows than of the enemy.
- He tortured his own mother
- He demanded from his cardinals that they'd make him a saint of the church, and when they didn't want, he shot them all.
Sounds unbelievable, but at least I'm sure about the numbers (five sixths of the pop!), and that won't come from nothing...
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