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I've done US-backed dictators, now for some Soviet-backed ones. Once again, I have put in brackets the years they came into power.
Erich Honecker, East Germany (1971)
Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland (1981)
Muammar Gaddafi, Libya (1969)
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt (1952)
Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ethiopia (1974)
Idi Amin, Uganda (1971) (N.B. Initially he was a Western-backed dictator, but after he expelled the country's Asian population, the West turned against him and he turned to the USSR for support instead)
Fernando Macias Nguema, Equatorial Guinea (1968)
Fidel Castro, Cuba (1959)
Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua (1979)
Hafez Al-Assad, Syria (1971)
Saddam Hussein, Iraq (1979)
Kim Il-Sung, North Korea (1948)
Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnam (1945)
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