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Part One: Alfredo Stroessner: The Luckiest Dictator

Behind the Bastards

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The History of the Coup

Stressner is a big part of why his side wins this civil war. Over the next two years, things do not calm down though. In 1954, he decides it is his turn to be the man doing the cooing. The coup took place while all of a Sunxion society was at the Philharmonic. Legend has it that the shooting started just at the thunderous beginning of Beethoven's fifth.

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