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iraq idependance
Iraq gained its independence from Great Britain in 1932. But in the 1930s two dissident parties formed, the Communists and the Baathists. The communist influence came out of the Soviet Union. The Baathist party was a fascist organization very much along the lines of Hitler's Nazis. The main thrust of the two intellectuals that spawned the party, Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar, was to form a greater Arab national entity under a firm leader.
