Long after the worst excesses of grotesque and terrible dictators, decades after they seized power, and only when their backs are to the wall, do the hypocrites gather to condemn. And autocrats remain...
Mussolini, Franco, Salazar, Mannerheim, Horthy, Duvalier, Amin, Bokassa, The Shah, Pinochet, Hussain, The Greek Colonels, Noriega, Qaddafi... and at least a dozen others...
Mussolini, Franco, Salazar, Mannerheim, Horthy, Duvalier, Amin, Bokassa, The Shah, Pinochet, Hussain, The Greek Colonels, Noriega, Qaddafi...
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'their backs'
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