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Leader of Belgium's Catholic Rexist movement, he became a Nazi collaborator during the occupation and commanded Walloon volunteers in the Waffen-SS. After the war, he lived in exile in Spain and remained an admirer of Hitler.
Political axes
Léon Degrelle leans further toward militarist than 97% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Diplomacy is where Léon Degrelle stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Léon Degrelle sits practically at the catalog median.
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Current that preserves order, tradition, and hierarchy through a strong state, restricting freedoms and political participation in the name of social stability, morality, religion, and established authority.
Project that seeks to organize state and society according to the strict interpretation of a religious doctrine, subordinating laws, customs, and politics to sacred precepts and rejecting modern secularism.
Defense of monarchy with unlimited power concentrated in the sovereign, legitimized by tradition or divine right, without a constitution or parliament to restrict the king's authority over state and society.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian25%
A Brazilian general and dictator, Médici governed during the most repressive period of the military dictatorship, uniting heavy censorship and political persecution with the so-called economic miracle of accelerated growth and colossal public works.
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A single-party socialist state, China unites the absolute political control of the Communist Party with a state-directed market economy, becoming a global industrial, technological, and geopolitical power.
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Habsburg Spain, especially under Philip II, was a Catholic Counter-Reformation state, marked by the Inquisition, purity-of-blood laws, religious expulsions, and wars defending the faith.
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