Your Top 5 dictators of the 20th century

[Teutone]

Post your 5 favorite dictators of the 20th century

Name and Picture

[Teutone]

1. Francisco Franco

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Francisco_Franco_1930.jpg/220px-Francisco_Franco_1930.jpg

2. Engelbert Dollfuß

https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/images/9/99/Engelbertdollfuss.jpg

3. António de Oliveira Salazar

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Antonio_Salazar-1.jpg/220px-Antonio_Salazar-1.jpg

4. Augusto Pinochet

https://www.epochtimes.de/assets/uploads/2016/12/GettyImages-51426128-640x538.jpg

5. Jozef Tiso

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Th._Dr._Josef_Tiso.jpg/220px-Th._Dr._Josef_Tiso.jpg

[Ruggery]

And Nicolas Maduro it seems Stalin Latin American version.
http://femcai.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Nicolas-Maduro-Moros.jpg

[Bornoz]

https://i0.wp.com/thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD-%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BB-%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD-%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B2-%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD-%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%82-%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C.jpg?ssl=1

[Teutone]

And Nicolas Maduro it seems Stalin Latin American version.
http://femcai.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Nicolas-Maduro-Moros.jpg

20th century mate

[Smeagol]

In not any particular order:
Francisco Franco
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Francisco_Franco_en_1964.jpg

António de Oliveira Salazar
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Antonio_Salazar-1.jpg

Adolf Hitler
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg

Benito Mussolini
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Mussolini_biografia.jpg

Ion Antonescu
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Ion_antonescu.png

[Ruggery]

20th century mate

Okay. I did not understand the thread well.
Leopoldo Galtieria Argentine dictator
http://estaticos01.elmundo.es/america/imagenes/2009/11/22/1258929360_0.jpg

[Teutone]

In not any particular order:
Francisco Franco
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Francisco_Franco_en_1964.jpg

António de Oliveira Salazar
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Antonio_Salazar-1.jpg

Adolf Hitler
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg

Benito Mussolini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini#/media/File:Mussolini_biografia.jpg

Ion Antonescu
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Ion_antonescu.png

Damn I forgot about based Ion Antonescu

[Teutone]

Also have to mention

Georgios Zoitakis

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/George_Zoitakis.jpg

[Ruggery]

In not any particular order:
Francisco Franco
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Francisco_Franco_en_1964.jpg

António de Oliveira Salazar
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Antonio_Salazar-1.jpg

Adolf Hitler
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg

Benito Mussolini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini#/media/File:Mussolini_biografia.jpg

Ion Antonescu
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Ion_antonescu.png

The United States never had a dictator?

[Smeagol]

The United States never had a dictator?

No.

[gıulıoımpa]

Thomas Sankara (not a conventional dicator however) the fighter

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Thomas_Sankara.jpg


Francisco Franco the restorer of order

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Francisco_Franco_en_1964.jpg/800px-Francisco_Franco_en_1964.jpg



Juan Peron the pragmatist

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/RETRATO_FOTOGRÁFICO_DE_PERÓN.jpg/800px-RETRATO_FOTOGRÁFICO_DE_PERÓN.jpg


Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (not at all conventional dictator rather an important figure) the Caring leader

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Ataturk1930s.jpg

[gıulıoımpa]

No.

closest thing it had was Probably FD Roosvelt. not in a bad way though

[Smeagol]

closest thing it had was Probably FD Roosvelt. not in a bad way though

I don't like Roosevelt, but yes he had the most power out of any 20th century President.

[Kivan]

King of TA
https://www.nationalvanguard.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/hitler_1.jpg

[TheMaestro]

1. Francisco Franco

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Francisco_Franco_1930.jpg/220px-Francisco_Franco_1930.jpg

2. Engelbert Dollfuß

https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/images/9/99/Engelbertdollfuss.jpg

3. António de Oliveira Salazar

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Antonio_Salazar-1.jpg/220px-Antonio_Salazar-1.jpg

4. Augusto Pinochet

https://www.epochtimes.de/assets/uploads/2016/12/GettyImages-51426128-640x538.jpg

5. Jozef Tiso

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Th._Dr._Josef_Tiso.jpg/220px-Th._Dr._Josef_Tiso.jpg

Oh, Tiso. Yeah, Priest and Nazi colaborant, I like that you have chosen him. In Slovakia you can openly support him, in Germany or somewhere else you would get into jail :D I liked him too, in a certain way.

[Dandelion]

Why is Tiso so popular? It's the one of the list I disagree most with, next to Hitler of course.

[Tooting Carmen]

Inasmuch as I HAD to choose at all (in no particular order):

Fidel Castro
http://45eq7vmb9bj1ratu11zv1p19.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/541531141.jpg

Lee Kuan Yew
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/03/14/world/asia/00lee-kuan-yew-adv-obit-slide-A21E/00lee-kuan-yew-adv-obit-slide-A21E-blog427.jpg

Juan Peron
https://cdn.britannica.com/s:290x800/66/9666-004-C3F1037C.jpg

Kemal Ataturk
https://klimbim2014.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/ataturk-in-color.jpg

Mikhail Gorbachev
https://cdn.britannica.com/s:700x450/71/179671-049-91F481F8.jpg

[Seya]

In not any particular order:
Francisco Franco
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Francisco_Franco_en_1964.jpg

António de Oliveira Salazar
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Antonio_Salazar-1.jpg

Adolf Hitler
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg

Benito Mussolini
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Mussolini_biografia.jpg

Ion Antonescu
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Ion_antonescu.png

why would u name Ion Antonescu and not Ceausescu?

[Marmara]

Ataturk and Franco.

I don't know what Mussolini has contributed in Italy.

[Smeagol]

why would u name Ion Antonescu and not Ceausescu?

Because Antonescu was better of course.

[Profileid]

The United States never had a dictator?

typical retarded latin american post

[Ruggery]

typical retarded latin american post

Many countries have or had dictators until Germanic Germany, is not something exclusive of Latin America.

Still, I think that not all Americans are as stupid as you.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

I don't have a favorite dictator. That would be like a child fawning over the school bully. I do, however, find Hitler interesting. Out of all the dictators his rise to power is the most unusual. There was nothing in his background that would make you think this guy would one day rule over a nation.

[StonyArabia]

King Fisal Al-Saud
king Fisal Hashemite of Iraq
sheikh Zayed bin Nayhan
King Mohammed bin Salman

I also favor pre 2003 Iraqi leadership.

[Bandesha]

Ayub khan
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Muhammed_Ayub_Khan_1940-41.jpg/260px-Muhammed_Ayub_Khan_1940-41.jpg

[Pulsa Dinura]

Worldwide:
Hitler, Staline, Kim Jong-un, Fidel Castro, Idi Amin


In the Arab world:
Omar Al Bashir, Saddam Hussein, Kadhafi, Hafez al Assad, Bashar al Assad.

[wvwvw]

My favor dictactors hands down are Khaddafi and Kim.

[Livin]

Hitler,Franco,

From new generation Erdogan and Khaddafi.

[Nazarene]

King Fisal Al-Saud
king Fisal Hashemite of Iraq
sheikh Zayed bin Nayhan
King Mohammed bin Salman

I also favor pre 2003 Iraqi leadership.

Do you like post-2003 leadership?

[Autrigón]

Well in political terms dictator means that you get the power by force but not by law or in a democratic way. In that way Hitler tried to get the power by force in 1923 and for that he was send to jail. In 1933 he got the power in a "semidemocratic" way and then yes, he acted like a dictator almost abolishing the German parliament.

By the way I don't know why people admire Franco, he was a retarded.

[Weiss]

1. Stalin, won the biggest and bloodiest war ever

[KMack]

Is a ranking system based on something. A lot of these guys got millions of their own people killed, or committed genocide, or wrecked their country financially made everyone poor. Xi Jinping of China seems better than all of them.

[gıulıoımpa]

i think dictator can be very bad for their people but in most cases it's because of pressure (external like preparing for a war ) or internal (dissidents) but once everything has settled down most usually bring the state's standard up, only some managed to bring up at the same time the state standard as well as the people standard.

[StonyArabia]

Do you like post-2003 leadership?

Hell No, they are traitors and scum. They are the ones who brought sectarian tension and lead to the rise of fundamentalism in the region. They also favor their cronies on sectarianism. No Bedouin support this post 2003 leadership, they resent it and rightly so. Most Bedouin tribes have opted for almost quasi-independent state, ruled by tribal sheikhs. Most of us resent an imperialist imposed puppet government upon us. The few that like the post 2003 leadership are the ones who became rich through plunder and theft and thrived on the chaos. How can they sleep at night? Is something that I will never know, however most of them are not of Bedouin stock. Everyone clearly can see that pre-2003 Iraq was much better than it's now, despite the political mistakes that was done by the former regime for example.

[Mikula]

I have just one
https://1968.rozhlas.cz/sites/default/files/images/03916293.jpeg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyLbVJdeqtQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obdCQvZqReQ

[Nazarene]

Hell No, they are traitors and scum. They are the ones who brought sectarian tension and lead to the rise of fundamentalism in the region. They also favor their cronies on sectarianism. No Bedouin support this post 2003 leadership, they resent it and rightly so. Most Bedouin tribes have opted for almost quasi-independent state, ruled by tribal sheikhs. Most of us resent an imperialist imposed puppet government upon us. The few that like the post 2003 leadership are the ones who became rich through plunder and theft and thrived on the chaos. How can they sleep at night? Is something that I will never know, however most of them are not of Bedouin stock. Everyone clearly can see that pre-2003 Iraq was much better than it's now, despite the political mistakes that was done by the former regime for example.

What are your thoughts on Abd Al Karim Qasim?

[StonyArabia]

What are your thoughts on Abd Al Karim Qasim?

Most Bedouins are neutral but they kinda dislike him to be honest. We favor the monarchy. My maternal-grandfather for example was upset that King had fallen. He was a communist as well, however despite himself not making any problems, the people under him did a lot of bad things, and they tried to force secular and communist thoughts on the locals, this why he was overthrown eventually. Bedouins greatly enjoyed their status in the monarchist period. However they slowly began to decline with his rise. However they made comeback with the nationalist and pan-Arabist parties, and again they declined and have very little political power since 2003. Many of us refer to the monarchy as the golden age of Iraq. The other issue is Iraq is geopolitical game for world powers and it's neighbours. I think that Abdel Qarim Kasim should have not killed the monarch, and he should have been more firm with his followers, who kinda ruined his image.

[Cernunnos]

I don't have a favorite dictator. That would be like a child fawning over the school bully. I do, however, find Hitler interesting. Out of all the dictators his rise to power is the most unusual. There was nothing in his background that would make you think this guy would one day rule over a nation.

He was intelligent and Charismatic....

His background was irrelevant.....

[JosephK]

Mussolini all the way..., c'mon!

[Cristiano viejo]

Francisco Franco, Caudillo de España por Gracia de Dios (Warlord of Spain by Grace of God).

With him Spain became prosperous and rich (since the ruins of a civil war!).

[axel.aleman]

Pinochet
Franco
Torrijos
Noriega
Trujillo

[The Lawspeaker]

Lee Kuan Yew
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/media/images/81076000/jpg/_81076041_520094113.jpg


Park Chung-hee
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Park_Chung-hee_1963%27s.png

Ian Smith
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JmtET01IzIo/VM7N-jvFsoI/AAAAAAAAPPU/dalF4l2V73s/s1600/Ian%2BSmith.jpg

Charles de Gaulle (yes - some may call him a dictator as he governed with an extra-ordinary amount of political power and I have a personal soft spot for him):
https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTE1ODA0OTcxNjA1MTMyODEz/charles-de-gaulle-9269794-2-raw.jpg

António de Oliveira Salazar
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Antonio_Salazar-1.jpg

With honourable mentions going to:

Engelbert Dolfuss
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Engelbert_Dollfuss.jpg

and Josip Broz Tito:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3f/ba/53/3fba53e04b985da0d30279e8138f7a81.jpg

[PaleoEuropean]

Saddam Hussein he had Chutzpah.

https://i.imgur.com/1pqKAyg.jpg

[Joso]

Ronald Reagan

[JamesBond007]

che guevara

https://cleorecs.com/store/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/1329-che.jpg



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0

[Arsen_]

Aside from moral considerations and political sympathies, then of course globally there were only two persons in this category and nomination - Top dictators of the 20th century. These were Stalin and Hitler who were out of any competition. They played in the major league. Everyone else played in the younger leagues.

[Tooting Carmen]

Lee Kuan Yew
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/media/images/81076000/jpg/_81076041_520094113.jpg


Park Chung-hee
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Park_Chung-hee_1963%27s.png

Ian Smith
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JmtET01IzIo/VM7N-jvFsoI/AAAAAAAAPPU/dalF4l2V73s/s1600/Ian%2BSmith.jpg

Charles de Gaulle (yes - some may call him a dictator as he governed with an extra-ordinary amount of political power and I have a personal soft spot for him):
https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTE1ODA0OTcxNjA1MTMyODEz/charles-de-gaulle-9269794-2-raw.jpg

António de Oliveira Salazar
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Antonio_Salazar-1.jpg

With honourable mentions going to:

Engelbert Dolfuss
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Engelbert_Dollfuss.jpg

and Josip Broz Tito:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3f/ba/53/3fba53e04b985da0d30279e8138f7a81.jpg

I agree about Lee Kuan Yew and maybe Tito. The former transformed Singapore from being a decadent drug den into a law-abiding economic powerhouse, while the latter stayed independent from the USSR and developed a softer, more democratic form of communism.

[sean]

1. Ian Smith

https://i.imgur.com/ACykL2g.jpg

2. Park Chung-hee

https://i.imgur.com/GBc0Rfw.jpg

3. Augusto Pinochet

https://i.imgur.com/GtKTWdJ.jpg

4. Hafez al-Assad

https://i.imgur.com/kcSPUUy.jpg

5. Adolf Hitler

https://i.imgur.com/CWcWGGU.jpg