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As preposterous and oxymoronic as many would find it, I do think there have been occasional examples:
Salazar. Helped modernise Portugal significantly through a massive schoolbuilding programme and a concurrent massive fall in illiteracy and poverty. Eventually died of illness, and his regime fell a few years later due to misguided and daft colonial wars in Africa.
Peron. Vastly improved the lives of Argentina's working classes - for a while poverty and unemployment became minimal in Argentina. Eventually overthrown by the military who became increasingly antagonised by him, along with the church and oligarchy.
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