Strangest Dictator of the 20th Century

[Juize]

Originally posted by Rain
As for murdering pepole from your own country Pol Pot was small time compared to Stalin ( killed what 20-30 mil or so?). Even Hitler never achieved Stalin's levels of murder, tho he might have higher rate per year in power. Pol Pot was a fanatic ~ kinda took Mao's teachings and went to hell with it. Then we have some other guys not so well remembered ~ Leopold of Belgium (can't recall if he made it to the 20th century). Castro really doesnt fit on the list. Aside from being painted as evil by americans, Castro really hasnt been in the same class in terms of repression, murder etc as some of these guys.

Diktaattoripörssi - Stock of Dictators 2002 (TM) (C) (R)
is not ranking it's dictators by body piles.
It's a strange mix of reputation, strangeness, madness and evilness.

And if Simon Darkshade will go and spam here saying that I can't spell right,
just die out Simon, this is an INTERNATIONAL forum.

 

[Hamlet]

I'm surprised that nobody has voted for Khomeini.

 

[basher]

Pol pot, definitely. He hated all people who had even just a tiny fragment of education and wanted to turn his country into a stone-age slave society.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Originally posted by Hamlet
I'm surprised that nobody has voted for Khomeini.

There, fixed that for you. Happy now?

"Diktaattoripörssi - Stock of Dictators 2002 (TM) (C) (R)
is not ranking it's dictators by body piles.
It's a strange mix of reputation, strangeness, madness and evilness.

And if Simon Darkshade will go and spam here saying that I can't spell right,
just die out Simon, this is an INTERNATIONAL forum."

Anyone else hear the sound of the broken record?
Juizy, my dear love, the funny thing is that you go to such vehment lengths to defend yourself over a post which does not contain any spelling mistakes. Talk about jumping the gun.
Stop taking it so personally, even though it is meant that way.

 

[mcdh]

I would go with Kim Jong Il of north korea. he's a weirdo.

 

[klazlo]

Originally posted by Richard III

And what about Caucescu? He was WEIRD.

Or one can vote for his wife, Elena, who was an absolute weirdo. Some say that she was the one who really ran the country. There was a joke about her:

"Who is the best chessmaster in the world?"
"Elena"
"Why?"
"Because she can keep a whole country in check with one pawn"

(In Hungarian we use the same word for the the 'pawn' in check and for a quite degrading version of 'peasant'.)

 

[Richard III]

Originally posted by klazlo
(In Hungarian we use the same word for the the 'pawn' in check and for a quite degrading version of 'peasant'.)

This is probably not a coincidence!

 

[klazlo]

Originally posted by Richard III
This is probably not a coincidence!

Yes, I guess so, and that's why we also have a "p.c." version for the check: infantry.

 

[Archbob]

I'd have to go with good ol' joe stalin.

 

[Mîtiu Ioan]

Originally posted by klazlo
Or one can vote for his wife, Elena, who was an absolute weirdo. Some say that she was the one who really ran the country.

Hmmm - there are a lot of rumors about her. But a fact is for sure : her obsesion to develop prioritary the chemistry industry and especially the oil-related industry had caused big trouble for Romania since 1980 ....

Regards