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0 pointsfreitasm1mo ago0 comments

There are few, Spain's King Juan Carlos I being crowned king after Francisco Franco's death, and Chile's Pinochet leaving power after the 1988 referendum for example.

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ks20481mo ago

If 15 years of dictatorship is one of the few positive examples, that is not a good sign.

card_zero1mo ago

Well how many examples have there been anyway? Maybe six, under a range of definitions? Besides, historicism (inevitabilism) is wrong.

jay_kyburz1mo ago

I agree, and I wish I was able to delete the post. I thought afterwards the question itself is a little poor taste.

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