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1945 was a strange year (thelemmy.club)
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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 12 points 8 hours ago

Wartime leaders tend to make terrible peacetime leaders, ask Wellesley.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

To be fair, Wellesley enacted the Catholic Emancipation which allowed Catholics to run for public office, which tacitly gave civil rights to the Irish.

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