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Klemens von Metternich
Austrian diplomat, foreign minister and Chancellor (1773–1859)
Blaise Compaoré
President of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014
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Italian philosopher and esotericist (1898-1974)
Free Corps
thumb|Two soldiers of an Habsburg monarchy|Austrian Freikorps ([[David Morier, 1748)]] '''' (, "Free Corps" or "Volunteer Corps") were irregular German and other European paramilitary volunteer units that existed from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. They effectively served as mercenaries or private military companies, regardless of their own nationality. In German-speaking countries, the first so-called ("free regiments", Freie Regimenter) were formed in the 18th century from native volunteers, enemy renegades, and deserters. These sometimes exotically equipped units served as infantry a
Contras
The Contras (from ) were the anti-communist right-wing rebels who waged a guerrilla war against the Marxist Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and the Junta of National Reconstruction, which came to power after the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979. The insurgency against the Sandinista government lasted from 1979 until 1990, and was one of the highest profile conflicts of the Cold War.
Carlos Castillo Armas
Guatemalan President (1914-1957)
István Bethlen
Hungarian politician (1874–1946)
Mehmed Emin Âli Paşa
Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier (1815–1871)
Hannah More
English writer and philanthropist (1745-1833)
Lucjan Żeligowski
Polish officer (1865-1947)
Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter
Nazi leader (1884-1923)
Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz
Belarusian-Polish general
Titushky
220px|thumb|alt=Titushky|Titushky at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, November 24, 2013 The Titushky (plural; ; ; ; ) were mercenary agents in Ukraine who supported the Ukrainian security services during the administration of Viktor Yanukovych, often posing as street hooligans in sports clothing with the purpose of serving as provocateurs at pro-European and anti-Yanukovych political rallies that would incite violence in order to get protestors arrested. Their role grew more prominent in the wake of Euromaidan, where they were involved in numerous clashes and acts of violence during the mo
Sidney Hook
American philosopher (1902–1989)
Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires
Spanish army officer (1753-1810) and 10th viceroy of the Spanish Viceroyalty of the River Plat
Orlando Zapata
Cuban activist (1967-2010)
Armed Forces of South Russia
military unit
Libertadora Revolution
coup d'état that ended the second presidential term of Juan Perón in Argentina, on 16 September 1955
Johannes Hoffmann
German politician, SPD in Bavaria (1867-1930)
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Academic, Politician, Author, Lawyer (1908-1995)
Royalist
Latin American and European supporters of the various governing bodies of the Spanish Monarchy, during the Spanish American wars of independence (1808 to 1833)
counter-revolutionary
thumb|upright=1.2|The War in the Vendée was a royalist uprising against revolutionary France in 1793–1796.
Baltagiya
thumb|Baltagy Baltagiya or Baltageya ( ) is an Egyptian slang word that generally means "goons", "thugs", "gangsters" or "criminals", who are hired to attack the political opposition or civic protesters. Meanwhile, "Baltaga" ( ), that etymologically derives from the Turkish word "baltacı" signifying an axeman, means doing harm or participating in collusion against someone or some people. Nonpolitical Baltagiya gangs appeared in Egypt in the 1980s; in the 1990s the Egyptian police decided to hire them, "outsourcing coercion to these Baltagiya, paying them well and training them to use sexualize
Luis Rebolledo de Palafox y Melzi
Spanish general, 4th Marquis of Lazán (1772-1843)
Regional Government of Northwest Russia
short-lived White counter-revolutionary government formed on 10 November 1918, after the October Revolution
Heinrich Jasper
German politician (1875-1945)
Freikorps in the Baltic
Anti-communist paramilitary organizations of Germany in Baltic states
Aufbau Vereinigung
thumb|274x274px|Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter The Wirtschaftliche Aufbau-Vereinigung () was a German-Russian conspiratorial group founded in Munich between 1920 and 1921. Dedicated to the partnership of anti-Bolshevik völkisch Germans and Russian émigrés, the organization aimed to overthrow the Soviet Union and the Weimar Republic. The Aufbau-Vereinigung was led by Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, Vasily Biskupsky, and Alfred Rosenberg. Its membership and ideology overlapped with the early Nazi party; the degree to which the organization influenced later Nazi ideology is debated.
Neocatólicos
The neocatólicos ("neo–Catholics", shorted to neos) was a counter-revolutionary political tradition, faction or movement in late 19th-century Spain, emerged during the reign of Isabella II, akin to "Isabelline traditionalism" and "authoritarian conservatism", fusing anti-liberalism with the defence of the queen's dynastic legitimacy.
National Resistance Movement of Iran
political party in Iran