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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.
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Léon Degrelle leans further toward autocracy than 97% of the 467 personalities in the catalog.
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On Economy, Léon Degrelle sits practically at the catalog median.
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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.
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.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian25%
King of England from 1509 to 1547, Henry VIII broke with Rome through the Act of Supremacy (1534), became head of the Church of England, dissolved the monasteries, centralized power in the Crown under Thomas Cromwell and executed opponents such as Thomas More.
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A post-Soviet presidential republic, Belarus is ruled by an authoritarian, personalist regime, with strong state control of the economy, repression of the opposition, and a close political alliance with Russia.
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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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