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Can you name the 50 described European political leaders of the last Century?

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 Prime Minister of UK during World War 2
 President of Czechoslovakia in 1935-1938 and 1945-1948
 Leader of the October Revolution, Founder of the USSR
 First Jewish and longest-running Chancellor of Austria
 First female President of the Irish Republic
 Yugoslav Partizan leader and President from 1953-1980
 First Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, resigned at the age of 87
 Spanish general and conservative Dictator
 Leader of 'Solidarity' and later President of Poland
 Leader of the CPSU from 1964-1982
 Two times Prime Minister of Italy, murdered by the 'Red Brigades'
 Leader of the 'Resistance', first President of the 'Fifth Republic'
 Chairman of the East German Communist Party, forced to resign three weeks before the fall of the Berlin wall
 Germanys last Emperor, died 1941 in Dutch exile
 Chief of Polish military government from 1981-1984 and last President of Communist Poland
 Former Prime Minister of Sweden, shot down in 1986
 Former President of FR Yugoslavia, convicted for Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity
 Czechoslovakian dissident and writer, later President of CSFR and Czech Republic
 Prime Minister of UK from 1937 to 1940, best known for appeasement politics
 Dictator of Austria from 1933-1934, murdered by Nazis
 Chief of Bulgarian Communist Party from 1954 to 1989
 Last Russian Tsar, killed by Bolsheviks in 1918
 Albanian Communist Dictator from 1944 to 1985
 German Dictator, responsible for Deaths of tens of millions in Holocaust and World War 2
 First Socialist Premier of France, leader of the 'Popular Front'
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 Greek military Dictator from 1967-1974
 Soviet Reformer, innovator of 'Glasnost' and 'Perestroika'
 Archbishop of the Cyprus Orthodox Church and first President of the Republic of Cyprus
 'Iron Lady', British Prime Minister 1979-1990
 Romanian Dictator, overthrown in 1989
 Portuguese Dictator from 1932-1968, leader of fascist-like 'Estado Novo'
 Founder of modern Turkey in 1923
 Italian Fascist Dictator, ally of Nazi Germany
 French Socialist President for 15 years, succeeded Giscard d'Estaing
 Longest-running German Chancellor, in office during German Reunification
 Norvegian Fascist and Nazi collaborateur
 Emperor of Austria for 68 Years, died during World War 1
 Soviet Dictator, initiated the 'Great Terror' and expanded Communism in Eastern Europe
 Czechoslovakian Communist reformer, removed from office after 'Prague Spring'
 British Foreign Minister during World War 2 and Prime Minister during Suez Crisis
 Socialist Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996, predecessor of Jose Maria Aznar
 French Conservative President, widely criticised for nuclear weapon testings at the Mururoa atoll in the 1990s
 Croatian clerical fascist leader, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people during world War 2
 Fife time turkish Prime Minister, responsible for invasion of Turkish troops in Cyprus, overthrown by military coup in 1980
 Hungarian Communist reformer, executed after people's uprising
 German Chancellor from 1969-1974, initiated the new 'Ostpolitik'
 First President of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1999
 Last President of the Weimar Republic, appointed Hitler new chancellor
 Romanian military Dictator, Nazi collaborateur
 Spanish military Dictator from 1923 to 1931
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