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Egypt's president from 1956 to 1970, Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and expanded state ownership and land reform. He championed pan-Arabism and non-alignment while concentrating power and repressing the opposition.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser leans further toward public than 96% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Economy is where Gamal Abdel Nasser stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Gamal Abdel Nasser sits practically at the catalog median.
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Current that joins a state-run socialist economy and a strong party with patriotism, the traditional family, religion as national heritage and rejection of cultural progressivism, seeing identity politics as a liberal distraction from class struggle.
Syncretic ideology, also called NazBol, that fuses revolutionary socialism and radical nationalism, combining a collectivist economy, state authoritarianism, and rejection of liberalism, the West, and bourgeois individualism.
Getúlio Vargas's Estado Novo doctrine joining economic nationalism, a centralized state, state-tied unions, labor law and state firms such as Petrobras, against the regional oligarchies and liberalism.
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Progressive LibertarianismLibertarian27%
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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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Under Nasser, Egypt was a nationalist, developmentalist republic that nationalized strategic sectors, led pan-Arabism, and united Arab socialism, agrarian reform, and strong leadership in the Middle East.
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