| Two things: (1) You might add the either of the Assads of Syria, either Nasser/Mubarak/Sadat of Egypt, Bautista of Cuba, Park Chung-hee of South Korea, and Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore. I realize you can't include every single dictator, but I regard all of these as being very significant. (2) Great idea for a quiz, but I have one criticism: there doesn't seem to be a consistent way of distinguishing monarchs with absolute power and dictators. Nicholas II, Hirohito, Wilhelm the II and the Ottoman Sultans (Abdulhamid II is admittedly complicated) don't really belong here because their extensive powers had dynastic/divine legitimacy. As much pretension as there is to that, dictators have even less and often have to discredit divine and dynastic legitimacy and often claim theirs is from the people. Leopold II is a little different because of the Congo. Does that make sense JohnFrusciante? |
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