Nasser: The Arab Strongman Cometh
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Fat for Ruke's Overthrow
In modern history, he is more fondly remembered. People remember him as gentle, cultured, and wasn't a tyrant. He was trying to keep the country together at the very end. But in the end, when there was an uprising as him by the army, how did he respond? Did he shoot back? No, he abdicated with honor and left in his yacht to go and hunt down the best restaurants in the mediterranean. Well, fat for ruke's overthrow happened in 19 52. It began early that year. The egyptian army already harbored within itself a group of young officers known as the free officers who were very upset with king feruk's rule
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