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That I think is a consequence of human psyche. Basically, people who get the power are usually precisely the people who shouldn't have it. And while in hereditary monarchy you at least get a chance - a roll of the dice - that next ruler will not be a psychopath (Byzantines OTOH ensured that by...

He is the mercenary / front for finance interests - banking dynasties such as Rotschild, Goldman-Sachs, Rockefeller, Morgan etc. being the most obvious of the bunch. Medieval Church truly was correct about bankers being evil incarnate...

I didn't say that he was or was not Nazi collaborator (and him being 13 hardly makes it impossible that he was a collaborator; it does bring into question how morally responsible he will have been if he was). I was merely replying to the question of location where his alleged collaboration took...

In Hungary, actually. IIRC, his accumulation of wealth actually started back then, though he only make a big break through some sort of a scam - I forgot what exactly, just that it had to do with exploiting an economic crisis.

I think it might be, in part, a consequence of the whole "antisemitism" thing. Much like Holocaust denial is partly a consequence of the attention Holocaust gets, while many other genocides and pogroms are ignored (Nazi genocides against Poles, Serbs, Russians etc.; Communist genocides against...