Can you name the 25 Famous Dictators of World History? by Global10

Can you name the 25 Famous Dictators of World History?

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25 Famous Dictators of World History Quiz

by Global10

Created Apr 29, 2010 in History
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	banutzu:	Apr 29th, 2010 at 16:35 GMT	3 points
	wow this is original

	Caz3773:	Apr 29th, 2010 at 17:56 GMT	1 point
	Somoza was Nicaraguan...

	Xenos:	Apr 29th, 2010 at 18:22 GMT	2 points
	Shouldn't you accept Kim Jong-il?

	bubbabub:	Apr 29th, 2010 at 18:33 GMT	4 points
	Accept alternative spelling for Mao, I learned it as Mao Tse Tung

	RebeccaAMax:	Apr 29th, 2010 at 20:01 GMT	8 points
	Because there have only ever been 25 dictators, of course, and they're never known by their surnames.

	DonnyB:	Apr 29th, 2010 at 20:41 GMT	3 points
	Accept last names. This is unplayable otherwisPr

	baconstud01:	Apr 29th, 2010 at 20:54 GMT	1 point
	Yeah, I quit after the first two when I realized last names weren't accepted.

	Zephos:	Apr 29th, 2010 at 22:46 GMT	2 points
	Ho Chi Minh was never dictator of Vietnam, he died before the country was unified into one.

	sunshine423:	Apr 30th, 2010 at 01:48 GMT	2 points
	It's a bit of a stretch to call Hammurabi a dictator.

	chrisgahl:	Apr 30th, 2010 at 14:39 GMT	3 points
	Also a stretch to call Hirohito a dictator.

	Togtdyalttai:	Apr 30th, 2010 at 17:45 GMT	3 points
	Haile Selassie, not Salassie.

	smreidy113:	May 1st, 2010 at 03:24 GMT	2 points
	hirohito wasn't really the dictator. tojo was behind japan's atrocities.

	ragazzo:	May 5th, 2010 at 11:22 GMT	1 point
	Please fix Haile Selassie - I'd entered that but it said I was wrong. And accept Mao Tse Tung. Great quiz otherwise :)

	gowhere:	May 5th, 2010 at 12:43 GMT	2 points
	So many problems. Absolute monarchs are not normally considered dictators. If they were, you would have to include most of the french monarchs, napoleon, the german emperors, quite a few japanese emperors, chinese emperors, etc. Botha was not a dictator - he was an elected official. You may decry the fact that he was elected by a system which disenfranchised many, but nonetheless, we was elected. Odd that you consider Kim jong il a more significant dictator than Kim il sung. Lenin and Stalin were dictators of the Soviet Union, not Russia.

	Rascul:	May 5th, 2010 at 13:01 GMT	1 point
	If you're talking about English monarchs, Charles I was more of a dictator than Cromwell, even though the latter has a worse reputation. Also, Haile Selassie wasn't Ethiopia's dictator, he was the king before the military dictatorship of Colonel Mengistu. You could also add Mobutu, Pinochet, Videla and Sukarno.

	Caz3773:	Jun 17th, 2010 at 13:13 GMT	1 point
	@Rascul... I assume you mean Suharto, not Sukarno?

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	AutonomusPlebian:	Mar 30th, 2011 at 08:24 GMT	1 point
	Include dates so we know who you're looking for, for people like Mao, Kim Jong-il (possibly Pol Pot, I'm not sure) their family name actually comes first so you need to accept Mao and Kim

	yousefhanna:	Mar 30th, 2011 at 20:49 GMT	1 point
	bro, hammurabi was not a dictator also, lenin was not a dictator also, haile not hasie selassie also, pahlavi was nicer than the guys who came after him also, read your comments

	Milan:	Mar 31st, 2011 at 00:13 GMT	1 point
	Though I disagree with the comment above me (Lenin, Selassie and Pahlavi were in fact all dictators, even if Khomeini was worse than Pahlavi), many things are indeed wrong with this quiz. The names of Milosevic, Selassie and Kim Jong-il are spelt wrong, you should accept Mao, Kim and Saddam. And in my book Botha, Hirohito and Milosevic couldn't be classified as dictators. Milosevic was more or less freely elected in a multi-party system, Hirohito was for most of the time only the figurehead with limited power. The federalist structure of Yugoslavia even makes me doubtful about Tito being a dictator.

	FCSpider:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 03:19 GMT	1 point
	Accept Mengistu Haile Mariam for Ethiopia - worse and more recent than Emperor Haile Selassie, whose name is misspelled in any event. Reza Pahlavi for Iran and not Khomeini or Khamenei? C'mon! Botha wasn't a dictator. He was an elected leader of an unjust political system. The dictator of Japan is generally considered to be Tojo, not Hirohito. You should accept Kim Il Sung for North Korea - a much more significant figure than his son.

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