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Part One: Alfredo Stroessner: The Luckiest Dictator

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The History of Paraguay

In 1886 Bernard Forster, who is the brother in law of Friedrich Nietzsche, had moved to Paraguay. He moves there because he's like number one, a philosopher of anti-Semitism. And so Paraguay is like, we will give Europeans money if they will immigrate here and help us have like your dude come on over. We need all the semen we can get right now. There are not many of us left. Now that same year Nixon visits 58, a left wing gorilla leader attempts to invade Paraguay. The CIA learns this is happening and they warn stressor and he sends six thousand soldiers to crack down. Most of these guys are gunned down, but the survivors are

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