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India's first deputy prime minister and home minister, Patel, the 'Iron Man', integrated more than 560 princely states into the new country by persuasion and force, built the Indian civil service and defended order, private property and a strong unitary state.
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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel leans further toward assimilation than 83% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Immigration is where Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel sits close to the catalog median.
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Right-wing current that unites free markets, traditional values, and an interventionist foreign policy, advocating the promotion of democracy and national interests through military force and global leadership.
Prioritizes national sovereignty, identity, and cohesion, associating them with right-wing positions such as social hierarchy, cultural conservatism, or immigration restriction. Currents vary in their views of the state and economy, from free markets to national protectionism.
Current that combines popular sovereignty and democratic institutions with strong cultural nationalism, prioritizing the nation's interests and identity over supranational commitments and multiculturalism.
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Green AnarchismAnarchist29%
British prime minister who led the United Kingdom against Nazi Germany in World War II, Churchill combined staunch defense of the British Empire and liberal capitalism with fervent anti-communist rhetoric, and was also the author of controversial colonial and wartime decisions.
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An Asian presidential republic, South Korea combines a vibrant democracy, an export-oriented market economy, and technological leadership, the result of rapid development under strong state impetus.
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An aristocratic republic of antiquity, Rome balanced consuls, Senate, and tribunes of the plebs in a mixed system of elective magistracies, expanding across the Mediterranean through citizen legions and a strong cult of civic virtue.
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