So actually teaching a History of Rome course rather than a bigger ancient world survey means writing an entire lecture on Sulla and the events of 88-78. Which I did. Eash. And now I am going to go pet cats and eat ice cream.
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Who's a modern day equivalent of Sulla people may be familiar with? Stalin?
Franco? A murderous autocratic dictator who is also a patriot who believes in his country and its republic but you know...murdered a ton of people and is an absolute monster.
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That's a good one
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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"Believed in the republic" seems like a rather strange description of a man who, with the support of (other) monarchists, overthrew the Republic and literally reinstated the Spanish Monarchy (1947)? He didn't let there be a King, but that just means he de facto made himself King.
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I think a better choice might be someone like Fujimori or, in order to match the sheer brutality, Pinochet. A parallel imo worth making is De Gaulle, but he was a lot less murderous. The civilian-military distinction does a lot of work in preventing clean comparisons, I think.
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