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by haltingproblem
1415 days ago
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India had universal suffrage in 1950 and has deep parliamentary traditions. India was a democracy before the US, France, UK, Spain and numerous other Western cradles of democracy. US got universal suffrage in 1965 (Voting Rights act).
France was killing a million Algerians whom it ruled and were demanding self-determination in 1954-1962 and finally became colony free in 1977.
UK was running concentration camps in Kenya in the 1960s and free of its last colony in the 1980 approaching something like Universal Suffrage.
Spain was a dictatorship till 1979. |
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