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This can be done at any time from 1900 to the late 1930s

Perhaps the best time is during the great depression.

In Spain in 1936 there were about 8,000 land owners and millions of landless peasants. There were fewer land owners the earlier one starts. Give the land to the peasants and now you have millions of loyal voters and 8,000 unhappy voters, easy math. The military will do nothing because almost all in the military will have family members who have now become landowners and the military is not going to fight to take it from their own family members.

This if done before the civil war will prevent it from happening at all. And if done during will give the republicans a huge boost and may give a quick, with in a few months of declaring these new laws grant victory.

Now to the interesting parts

The same thing can then be done in Portugal, you have a few thousand landowners and millions of landless peasants do the same thing there and you can unite the Iberian peninsula, and declare it as a new country with two official languages.

AND now the even more interesting thing, the exact same thing can be done in South America, and unite it all as one country, give the landless peasants the land make it the law, and you now have millions of loyal people for a whole generation and the military will do nothing because they have family members who are now land owners.

These are some interesting possibilities, but where never tried because land reform was always lagging and few if any just looked at the numbers, a few thousand land owners, millions of landless peasants, each person has 1 vote, easy way to win every election. And obviously make sure the election system in each country has 1 person 1 vote.
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