The darkest moments of war, occupation, mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and autocraticleadership and crony capitalism were all there.
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Mrs Ferrero-Waldner was his hand-picked candidate, and her defeat has caused the recent grumbling in his party over his autocraticleadership style to get louder.
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Today's politicians are, he says, the product of the post-war years, when parties of all persuasions looked to autocraticleadership models: the Left to the Soviet Union, the centre-right to the Vatican.