Once upon a time, there lived in the Southernmost and the westernmost parts of a continent far away from the rest of the world, two young men. Both were born in the first decades of the last century, when the whole world was going through dire transformations, between the two great wars and with communication means experiencing more and more rapid developments.
Both were strong, clever and gifted with inquisitive minds, and wanted to do great things for their respective countries. This ambition was quite understandable, since their countries and almost all of their continent were dominated either by a tiny national élite or by external, powerful countries, on the pretense that they knew better and consequently, had to provide civilization, superior religious beliefs and culture to the rest of the humanity.