Should have probably told you guys about the man in my avatar.
Willem Drees was pretty much our best prime minister of all time. He was in office from 1948 until 1958 and oversaw a bunch of key post-war developments: the reconstruction of our country (wederopbouw), the traumas of decolonisation, economic growth, the establishment of our welfare state, and the formation of the Benelux, OEEC, ECSC, EEC and Nato.
He was a left-wing politician, but he strongly disagreed with the ''new'' left-wing ideas of the 1960s and renounced his membership of the party he used to lead (Dutch Labour Party/PVDA). One would wonder what he would have thought about the current trends in the even newer far-left and far-right politics.
Besides, he has a great mustache.