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Many dictatorships (Gaddafi, Tito, Hussein, Assad) end up devolving into violence and chaos in response to the leadership vaccum that occurs when the dictator either grows incredibly or dies. Why then did the dictatorships of Spain and South Korea not do the same when their dictators died?

by /u/nowlan101 in /r/AskHistorians

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