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Global dictator list (20th–21st century) — not limited to fascists, but including all major authoritarian/totalitarian heads of state who ruled by force, suppression, or one-party control.
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Europe
Benito Mussolini – Italy (1922–1943)
Adolf Hitler – Germany (1933–1945)
Francisco Franco – Spain (1939–1975)
António de Oliveira Salazar – Portugal (1932–1968)
Marcelo Caetano – Portugal (1968–1974)
Joseph Stalin – USSR (1924–1953)
Nikita Khrushchev – USSR (1953–1964)
Leonid Brezhnev – USSR (1964–1982)
Josip Broz Tito – Yugoslavia (1945–1980)
Nicolae Ceaușescu – Romania (1965–1989)
Enver Hoxha – Albania (1944–1985)
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Middle East & North Africa
Muammar Gaddafi – Libya (1969–2011)
Hafez al-Assad – Syria (1971–2000)
Bashar al-Assad – Syria (2000–present)
Saddam Hussein – Iraq (1979–2003)
Hosni Mubarak – Egypt (1981–2011)
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi – Egypt (2014–present, authoritarian military rule)
Kings of Saudi Arabia (absolute monarchs, 1932–present)
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Idi Amin – Uganda (1971–1979)
Mobutu Sese Seko – Zaire/DRC (1965–1997)
Robert Mugabe – Zimbabwe (1980–2017)
Mengistu Haile Mariam – Ethiopia (1977–1991)
Omar al-Bashir – Sudan (1989–2019)
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Asia
Mao Zedong – China (1949–1976)
Deng Xiaoping – China (1978–1989, authoritarian control)
Xi Jinping – China (2012–present)
Kim Il-Sung – North Korea (1948–1994)
Kim Jong-Il – North Korea (1994–2011)
Kim Jong-Un – North Korea (2011–present)
Pol Pot – Cambodia (1975–1979)
Suharto – Indonesia (1967–1998)
Ferdinand Marcos – Philippines (1965–1986)
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Latin America
Rafael Trujillo – Dominican Republic (1930–1961)
Fulgencio Batista – Cuba (1952–1959)
Augusto Pinochet – Chile (1973–1990)
Jorge Rafael Videla – Argentina (1976–1981)
Leopoldo Galtieri – Argentina (1981–1982)
Hugo Banzer – Bolivia (1971–1978)
Alfredo Stroessner – Paraguay (1954–1989)
Anastasio Somoza Debayle – Nicaragua (1967–1979)
Note: Am sure I left out many other dictators. Will update this post with them incrementally. It does appear that dictatorship is the rule rather than the exception for our species. That is my current opinion.
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