Word: civilizer
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Colonial Power. During the Spanish Civil War, Salazar backed Franco against the Republicans. In World War II, he remained nominally neutral but sympathized with Hitler and Mussolini. After it became clear that the Axis powers were losing, he shrewdly granted the U.S. and Britain the right to build bases in the Azores. It was an investment that paid off in a postwar seat in NATO for Portugal...
...sniping and many observers regarded the demonstrators as merely unruly, the grand jury declared that the troopers "had a right and were justified" in firing the 400-round fusillade that killed two black youths. Asserted the panel: "When people take the law into their own hands and engage in civil disorders and riots, they must expect to be injured or killed when officers are required to re-establish order...
Lenin's policy change, however, came too late to avert the Kronstadt uprising. The sailors, mostly of peasant origin, had visited their homes after the end of the civil war and saw for the first time how difficult life was for their families in the countryside. They, too, blamed the party for most of the nation's ills; after all, had the government not carried out the forcible seizure of peasant grain, and in many instances denied the farmers even a subsistence of their own produce...
...always been far from rich, it seemed fairly impossible to allow local autonomy in the distribution of material resources and still succeed in drawing the whole nation together. By and large, the Soviet citizenry acknowledged the need, if not the desirability, of centralism at the time of the civil...
...economic and political progress, to make her life and her people's lives as wretched and unendurable as possible, are the real villains of the episode. To set the blame, one must look first to the Tsarists and the Allied powers who fired the opening shots of the civil war itself, who attacked what had begun as a new human experiment, a genuinely popular social revolution, and attacked it without the slightest measure of compassion or concern...