He also said he's the only person in the world who's bothered by that.
This makes sense for a middle schooler.
He and his wife Maria Bonita terrorized northeastern Brazil and killed over 1,000 for 16 years until their killing by the police in 1938. Despite their brutality, Lampião and Maria Bonita are seen as heroes by many people in Brazil.
Immediately after winning the Indonesian Civil War, the Islamic State of Indonesia began planning an invasion of West Papua, an unrecognized state led by Nicolaas Jouwe. Japan provided Indonesia with weapons and intelligence to use in the invasion, and the Indonesians already had plenty of weapons obtained or captured during the national revolution and civil war.
On 12 August 1974, 10,000 Indonesian paratroopers flew from C-130 Hercules aircraft and parachuted in an airstrip near the West Papuan capital of Manokwari. The Indonesians captured the city by the end of the day, and a further 8,200 paratroopers landed there.
After capturing Manokwari, the Indonesian force headed towards Jayapura, the largest city in West Papua. Seth Rumkorem's Papuan Defence Force actively attempted to defend West Papua, but they received no foreign aid because the country was unrecognized, allowing the Indonesians to capture all inhabited parts of West Papua other than Jayapura by 20 August.
Later that day, 48,000 Indonesian troops attacked Jayapura, where Jouwe's government had relocated. They faced 17,000 Papuan troops and defeated them, capturing the city on 25 august. After capturing Jayapura, Indonesian President S. M. Kartosoewirjo annexed West Papua into Indonesia and began an Islamization campaign in the region.
Ex-PDF members refused to accept the Indonesian annexation and fled to the remote forests, from which they waged an insurgency against Indonesia. As Indonesia was aligned with the United States, the Free Socialist Republic of Germany supported the insurgents, but Germany was too far away from Papua for this to work, and Indonesia defeated the insurgency by 1978.
Two years after invading West Papua, Indonesia similarly invaded socialist East Timor and annexed it into the province of West Timor. Kartosoewirjo committed genocide against East Timorese, forcing them to speak Indonesian and practice Islam and banning Portuguese and Christianity. The Fretilin also responded to the Indonesian occupation by launching an insurgency, which lasted 21 years and was defeated in 2001.
The Arab League, except for Transjordan (which claimed Palestine), supported al-Husseini throughout his rule and kept good relations with the Palestinian state, as did Japan and Russia. Communist countries and the USA/UK/France, on the other hand, strongly condemned him for his genocide of Jews.
Palestine's Christian minority fared slightly better, but al-Husseini still favoured Muslims over other religious communities, and Christians often faced discrimination at the hands of Palestinian authorities, as did the Druze, contributing to al-Husseini's reputation as an icon of evil.
Al-Husseini's regime followed corporatist economic policies based on Croix-de-Feu France. Palestine banned unions, replacing them with corporations organized by profession, and strikes were also illegal. His Arab Higher Committee ran a National Leisure Organization (المنظمة الوطنية للترفيه) to entertain workers.
After the Arab victory in the Arab-Israeli War, the kibbutz were confiscated and their lands were redistributed to Arab landowners, replacing cooperative farming with tenant farming. Palestinian agriculture prospered throughout the rule of al-Husseini; the country's fruits, especially oranges, were popular in the rest of the Arab world.
Secular Arab nationalism never came to power anywhere, but it was still a powerful force in several countries, especially Egypt and Syria. Yasser Arafat and George Habash eventually established the National Union (NU) and the Workers' Party of Palestine (WPP) socialist movements opposed to al-Husseini's regime. By the mid-1960s, these two groups had the support of 20–25% of Palestine's population.
Al-Husseini and his secret police chief Fawzi al-Qawuqji, who regarded socialism as heretical, ordered a crackdown on the NU and WPP, killing 17,000 suspected communists and imprisoning 35,000 in concentration camps throughout the Negev desert. Conditions in these camps were poor and thousands of people died from hunger, thirst and disease.
In 1971, al-Husseini named al-Qawuqji as his successor due to their shared Arab nationalism and antisemitism, because he wanted someone who would continue his policies. By that point, al-Husseini was popular with Palestinian Muslims, but Christians and Druzes hated him.
After two decades of rule, Al-Husseini died on 4 July 1974, and was succeeded as the president of Palestine by al-Qawuqji, who continued all of his predecessor's policies without any major changes, and died on 5 June 1977. Khaled Yashruti became the president of Palestine and shifted towards secular but still right-wing Arab nationalism.
Southeastern, Center-Western and Southern Brazil mostly approved of Gustavo because they are right-wing and affluent, while the northeast disapproved of him because it is left-wing and poorer than the four other regions, and he was also fairly unpopular in Amazonas and Pará.
Gustavoism is considered a part of the 21st-century trend towards authoritarianism. As such, it has been compared to MAGA, Putinism, and Xi Jinping Thought, while Gustavo himself has elicited comparisons to not just Putin and Xi but also Viktor Orbán (Gustavo's wife Dóra Dúró is Hungarian), Aleksandar Vučić, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Gustavo has described Putin as his main foreign inspiration, and claimed to be emulating his nationalist and multipolarist policies. Journalists have described Gustavo as the "Putin of the Tropics", and Gustavoists tend to view Russia and China as Brazil's main allies, albeit not to the degree Bolsonarists worship the US and Israel.
Controversially, he has also praised Iran for "protecting its sovereignty and traditional culture from US and Israeli imperialism". Brazil supports Iran in the Iran War and has sold $50 million in weapons and spare parts to the Iranian military and IRGC.
Brazilian nationalist politician Enéas Carneiro was Gustavo's mentor, and Gustavo regards himself as a spiritual successor to Enéas, inheriting several of his stances, such as economic nationalism and support for a Brazilian nuclear program. Dúró similarly followed Enéas during the last two years of his life.
Gustavoism is considered to be right-wing to far-right due to its nationalism, social conservatism, punitivism, militarism, and nostalgia for the Brazilian military dictatorship. Some scholars even view it as a fascist movement and a continuation of Brazilian Integralism.
Brazilian neofascist groups such as the Brazilian Integralist Front and the Duginist New Resistance, and international far-rightists such as Nick Fuentes, have supported Gustavo because he is right-wing and anti-American/Israeli. But leftists and "tankies" such as Hasan Piker do the same thing because they defend pretty much anybody who opposes the USA.
The far-right Uruguayan party Sovereign Identity, whose leader is also named Gustavo, is influenced by Gustavoism and views it as a role model Uruguay should follow. Principles and Values, an Argentine Peronist party, and the Patriotic Party of Peru are also inspired by Gustavo.
Other Latin American right-wingers, such as Javier Milei and Keiko Fujimori, are critical of Gustavoism because they support economic liberalism and close ties to the United States. Consequently, since the three previously mentioned parties have little to no electoral support, leftists such as Roberto Sánchez and Iván Cepeda are Brazil's main regional allies.
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Duplessis favoured rural areas over city development and introduced various agricultural credits during his first term. He also was noted for meagre investment in social services. Duplessis also opposed military conscription and Canadian involvement in World War II.
In 1936, Duplessis hung a crucifix in the Quebec legislature. It was replaced by a second crucifix in 1982, which was only removed on 10 July 2019.[6]
His party, the Union Nationale, often had the active support of the Catholic Church during political campaigns, using the slogan Le ciel est bleu; l'enfer est rouge ("Heaven is blue; hell is red"; red is the colour of the Liberal Party, and blue was the colour of the Union Nationale).
However, in the 1950s, labour strikes made many in the Church break with the Union Nationale and support the unions.
Duplessis championed anti-communism and opposed trade unions such as the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada (TLC). He introduced several laws opposed by the unions, most notably the Padlock Law, which prohibited the dissemination of communist propaganda "by any means whatsoever."
In 1949, Duplessis also attempted to introduce a law modeled on the 1947 American Taft-Hartley Act to eliminate certain[clarification needed] labour union rights established by the Labour Relations Law of 1944, which was Quebec's equivalent of the American Wagner Act of 1935. Duplessis's bill was withdrawn after fierce union opposition.
Duplessis later introduced a similar law in 1954, known as Bill 19, to force union groups to expel any communist supporter. Any group would lose its trade union accreditation if there was a single member with ties to communist organizations or who supported the ideology. The bill was so unpopular that it lost even the support of the conservative Catholic union group. That controversy forced the union to review its structure, which eventually led to the creation of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN).
His time in office was marked by significant labour strikes, such as the Dominion Textile in Valleyfield in 1946, the Asbestos Strike in Estrie, and the Murdochville copper mine strike in 1957. In those conflicts, Duplessis responded rapidly with force by using the provincial police to disperse picket lines and restore order, with several arrests. However, the Murdochville strike led to a major victory for union rights and provided the impetus and inspiration for other labour leaders to emerge and energized calls for labour rights.
Duplessis actively opposed the Jehovah's Witnesses and once used his influence to revoke a liquor license owned by one of the religion's members. In Roncarelli v. Duplessis, that decision was overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada, and Duplessis was ordered to pay $33,123.53 in damages shortly before he died.
Duplessis' government was characterized by patronage and corruption, wielded against the Liberal opposition. He once proclaimed that a much-needed bridge at Trois-Rivières would not be built if a Liberal member was elected, and he kept his word while the opposition held the seat. In a rural district that had always elected a Liberal, the roads were kept unpaved, which obstructed commerce and so its residents decided in 1956 to vote for the Union Nationale as that was the only way to get their district noticed.
Duplessis was also accused of voter fraud. Contemporary rumours say that Union Nationale groups would arrive in rural towns armed with whiskey, food, and appliances in exchange for votes.
Another reason Duplessis won the 1944 Quebec general election was by appealing to antisemitic prejudices in Quebec by making the false claim in a violently antisemitic speech that the Dominion government together with the Godbout government had made a secret deal with the "International Zionist Brotherhood" to settle 100,000 Jewish refugees left homeless by the Holocaust in Quebec after the war in exchange for Jewish campaign contributions to both the federal and provincial Liberal parties.
By contrast, Duplessis claimed that he was not taking any money from the Jews, and if he were elected Premier, he would stop this plan to bring Jewish refugees to Quebec. To further push on the message, the Union Nationale handed out campaign pamphlets warning about the alleged plan to bring 100,000 Jewish refugees to Quebec, which featured a cartoon of the standard stereotype of an evil-looking, hook-nosed Jew handing bags of money to Godbout while in the background a vast horde of dirty, disreputable-looking, hook-nosed Jewish refugees were ready to descend on la belle province.
Though Duplessis's story about the plan to settle 100,000 Jewish refugees in Quebec was entirely false, his story was widely believed in Quebec, and ensured he won the election.
Sometime in 1941, the Free Socialist Republic of Germany began a nuclear weapons program run by Albert Einstein, who never fled Germany because the communist regime was not antisemitic. Wernher von Braun simultaneously developed the V-2 rocket, which Germany used against the British and French in 1944–45.
The Manhattan Project still beat Germany to it, with the Trinity Test being carried out in July 1945. Paul Levi was aware of the Manhattan project thanks to Germany's massive espionage network inside the United States; said network played an important role in the German nuclear program.
By the end of 1947, the nuclear program was almost completely finished. On Christmas, Germany tested a 16-kiloton nuke in the Peenemünde Army Research Center, becoming the second nation (the first being the United States) to develop nuclear weapons.
US intelligence quickly detected the test despite Germany's denials that it was a nuke. US President Arthur Vandenberg described Germany going nuclear as a "threat to the free world" and responded by making the previously classified Trinity test public, helping reduce the shock caused by Leibniz-1.
Germany's emergence as a nuclear superpower led to significant anti-communist paranoia in the United States, and to an increase in racism against German Americans, whom many people saw as a fifth column. Rather than Joseph McCarthy, Pat McCarran became the leader of reactionary anti-communism in the United States, overseeing a series of witch hunts that lasted until Estes Kefauver was elected US President.
Germany had a fleet of strategic bombers it could use to launch nukes, but Von Braun began working on miniaturizing a nuclear warhead to fit inside a missile. This advanced technology took a decade to develop, and the United States was already ahead of Germany in nuclear technology.
Von Braun would later manage the German space program as well, contributing significantly to the German victory in the Space Race, as the United States lacked a scientist of his stature.
While WWII actually ended in a stalemate, Germans thought they had won the war because Germany was now the dominant power in Europe. Siemens, which had been nationalized in 1918, became the dominant electronics company in Europe; its products were popular in all German-dominated countries.
Hungary also felt it was a winner, because its pre-WWI borders were restored, apart from Slovakia which was a Hungarian puppet state anyway. Hungary's successful revision of the Trianon treaty made it the third strongest communist country in Europe, behind Germany and Italy.
Ukrainian national communist Alexander Shumsky established the Socialist Republic of Ukraine, a communist and Ukrainian nationalist state allied to Germany. Shumsky redistributed land without collectivization, nationalized Ukraine's industries, and adopted Ukrainization policies targeting Poles, Russians, and Jews.
A rump state led by Bolesław Bierut, the Polish People's Republic was unpopular with its own populace, forcing the Polish government to adopt more moderate economic policies than those of Germany, and tolerate the Catholic Church. Poland's relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania were often tense, because these countries controlled Polish-majority lands.
Romania and Hungary were similarly on poor terms due to the Hungarian annexation of Transylvania, which Romania hoped to retake someday. But Hungary was militarily and economically superior to Romania, making this unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future.
Despite failing to conquer all of China and being in a frozen conflict with the ROC, Japan had three puppet governments in formerly Chinese territory: Manchukuo, Mengjiang, and the Reorganized Government of the Republic of China, led by Chiang Kai-shek. Many Burmese, Indian, Indonesian and Malayan nationalists saw Japan as an ally, but the Anglo-Japanese alliance had survived as a result of Japan and the UK's mutual dislike of socialism.
French influence in Europe had been greatly weakened by Germany's conquest of Eastern Europe, but France remained unoccupied and its colonies were not affected by the war. On 28 April 1946, François de La Rocque died and was succeeded as the president of France by Charles de Gaulle, who was very popular because of his role in WWII.
The United States continued to support the UK, France, and Russia to contain Red Germany, whose communism was a threat to all three powers. Belgium and the Netherlands's governments-in-exile (in the Congo and in Indonesia) also received unconditional US support, and America occupied Greenland indefinitely because Denmark was also a communist German puppet state.
The German invasion of Austria was followed on 22 January 1940 by a full-scale German, Hungarian and Slovak invasion of Poland. Despite Russian support, Warsaw fell to the Comintern after a week of fighting, whereupon a puppet government was installed and Germany annexed the Polish territory it lost in the Treaty of Versailles.
In March, the Rote Armee invaded Denmark, which capitulated in less than a day, and Norway, whose government fled into exile after two weeks of fighting. Germany installed communist-dominated puppet governments in these countries just like it did in Poland.
Having conquered Denmark and Norway, Germany moved against the Benelux countries next, occupying the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg by the end of April. Ernst Thalmann invaded France through the Ardennes, but the UK deployed an expeditionary force to help the French, and the strongly anti-communist US gave France lend-lease, allowing the Allies to defeat Germany at the Battle of Amiens (15 May – 6 June 1940).
After the Battle of Amiens, Antonio Gramsci declared war on France in order to help the Germans out, but Gramsci was a poor military strategist, Italy was not yet ready for a war against other major powers, and the UK responded with a naval blockade of Italy, resulting in a prolonged war of attrition like in WWI.
While the United States never joined the war due to Germany being careful enough not to provoke it, they provided financial and logistic support to the Allies throughout the entire conflict. Historians attribute Germany's failure to win the war to the involvement of the United States.
Germany was more successful in Eastern Europe, successfully invading Romania in July–August 1940 and following it up with an invasion of Yugoslavia, after which Italy annexed Istria and Dalmatia and the Hungarian Soviet Republic annexed Vojvodina. After the Balkan campaign, Germany began planning an invasion of Russia.
On 18 January 1941, Germany, Poland, Romania, Hungary and Italy launched Operation Barbarossa. By March, Comintern forces occupied the Baltic states, Belarus and Ukraine, but American lend-lease and the harsh Russian winter allowed the Russians to win the battles of Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Tsaritsyn.
Charles de Gaulle and Bernard Montgomery sought to take advantage of the fact Germany was fighting a two front war to liberate German-occupied France. This offensive was a partial success, reducing German control in France to a few dozen square kilometers, but an Allied push through the Ardennes was repelled in September 1941.
By that point, Japan had been invading Wang Jingwei's socialist China for five years, occupying much of China and perpetrating widespread atrocities against the Chinese people. Japan did not receive any lend-lease aid, but Germany and Italy cooperated with China, increasingly exhausting Japan's political, economic and military resources.
The war also affected the Middle East. With German and Italian help, Iraq unsuccessfully fought a war against the UK, while Turkey invaded the Democratric Republic of Armenia, annexed it and carried out a second Armenian genocide, killing 300,000 people by late 1943.
In February 1942, Russia took advantage of the US help it received to launch a major offensive against the Comintern. Despite expelling the Germans from Russia proper, Russian commander Alexander Kutepov failed to reoccupy Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic states, as the inhabitants of these client states mobilized to defend them.
Major unrest against the Wrangel regime ensued, and he was overthrown in a coup by Andrey Vlasov. Russia would later sign a ceasefire with Germany in March 1943, losing Ukraine, the Baltics, and Belarus but keeping the Caucasus and Central Asia. China took advantage of Russia's withdrawal from the war to annex Outer Mongolia and depose the Bogd Khan.
With Russia out of the war, Germany went on the offensive again, but the Allies emerged victorious in the Battle of Paris. Germany remained in control of northern France until late 1944, when another Allied offensive liberated all of it, forcing Germany and Italy to sign an armistice with Britain and France on 17 January 1945. But the Second Sino-Japanese War continued for a further 364 days until Japan and China signed an armistice.