Noticed a considerable gap in the list where left-wing dictators were concerned... ;)

Wikepedia (thanks again!) has a nice list of dictators here.

A few "progressive" contributors are complaining about the list, claiming that one can't really define a "dictator" anyway. Example:

I disagree these persons should be on the above list:



Fidel Castro
Ho Chi Minh
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
Vladimir Lenin.

Lenin, Ho Chi Minh and Castro were simply freedom fighters in those hard revolutionary times, when, for instance, there was no Free World in almost whole Europe. The regimes in Europe from the beginnings of 20th century to the end of 2nd World War were pretty much dictator-minded. The postwar Cold War is a different question. Khrushchev is on the list and I can't figure it out why. Just because of the crisis in the Bay of Pigs in Cuba and such. Many sources say too that Josip Broz Tito or Haile Selassie were also dictators. Both Khrushchev and Tito fought against Adolf Hitler's Nazis and they won. It is very easy for someone to show how one person can be a dictator.

In this way we may say that King Richard I of England the Lionheart, Winston Churchill or JFK are all dictators. But, hey, how can Khrushchev lies near such persons as Hitler, Mussolini were. Surely he had many good properties not just for his nation but perhaps for the whole world. I guess otherwise Bob Hoskins won't play him in the movie. Think about. I alone won't alter any such futher lists in no way.

Best regards. --XJamRastafire



Sure, JFK, Nikita Khruschev...pretty much the same thing really. Right?

Cripes, people wonder why leftists make me tear my remaining hair out.