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For his coup de grâce , Rall dismisses Spiegelman's entire future career: "Nothing on Art's résumé comes close to Maus in quality or concept.
Coup and Revenge
On 30 September 1965, a group of army conspirators, who claimed they acted to prevent a possible coup against Sukarno, kidnapped and killed six army generals.
Military officers in Sierra Leone (primer--it's in west Africa) ousted the country's first democratically elected president in a coup.
In 1974, soldiers carrying red carnations in their rifle barrels successfully deposed the government in a peaceful coup that came to be known as the “Carnation Revolution.”