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Francisco Franco
Dictator of Spain
Joseph Stalin
Dictator of the Soviet Union
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Pol Pot
Dictator of Democratic Kampuchea
Kim Il Sung
Founder & dictator of North Korea
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Idi Amin
Dictator of Uganda
Benito Mussolini
Dictator of Italy
Saddam Hussein
Dictator of Iraq
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Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Nazi Germany
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Fidel Castro
Revolutionary & head of state
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Robert Mugabe
Revolutionary & head of state
Muammar Gaddafi
Leader of Libya
Getúlio Vargas
President of Brazil
Rafael Trujillo
Dictator of the Dominican Republic
Augusto Pinochet
Dictator of Chile
Ferdinand Marcos
President of the Philippines
Porfirio Díaz
President of Mexico
Mobutu Sese Seko
President of Zaire
Kārlis Ulmanis
Prime Minister of Latvia
Enver Hoxha
Leader of Albania
Suharto
President of Indonesia
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Francois Duvalier
President of Haiti
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Jean-Claude Duvalier
President of Haiti
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Marcos Perez Jimenez
Military dictator of Venezuela
Manuel Noriega
Military dictator of Panama
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