1. Adolf Hitler
   Francisco Franco
2. Nicolae Ceaușescu
   Suharto

Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As dictator, he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was a central figure to the Holocaust.

1. Suharto
   Joseph Stalin
2. Saddam Hussein
   François Duvalier

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian ethnicity. Ideologically, he was a Marxist and a Leninist, though his own policies later became known as Stalinism.

1. François Duvalier
   Ho Chi Minh
2. Pol Pot
   Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong was most commonly known as Chairman Mao. He was a Chinese communist revolutionary, poet, political theorist and founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled from 1949 until his death in 1976.

1. Pol Pot
   Ruhollah Khomeini
2. Mobutu Sese Seko
   Benito Mussolini

Known as Il Duce, meaning The Leader, Mussolini was the founder of Italian Fascism. He ruled as Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 - 1943, but after just three years in, he made a bold move from democracy to dictatorship.

1. Kim Jong-il
   Ruhollah Khomeini
2. Ferdinand Marcos
   Muammar al-Gaddafi

Kim Jong-il was the leader of North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il-sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011. Did you know that he was actually born in Vyatskoye, Russia? North Korean records dispute that, however, saying he was born in the Baekdu Mountain in Japanese Korea.

1. Pol Pot
   Muammar al-Gaddafi
2. Omar al-Bashir
   Talat Pasha

Pol Pot was a Cambodian revolutionary and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976 to 1979. He was responsible for the Cambodian genocide carried out from 1975 - 1979.

1. Talat Pasha
   Anastasio Somoza García
2. Saddam Hussein
   Leonid Brezhnev

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the President of Iraq from 1979 - 2003. On November 5, 2006, he was convicted by an Iraqi court of crimes against humanity related to the 1982 killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'a, and sentenced to death by hanging.

1. Nicolae Ceaușescu
   Hun Sen
2. Mobutu Sese Seko
   Robert Mugabe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. While he has been praised for being a revolutionary hero of African liberation, he has also been accused of being a dictator responsible for economic mismanagement, widespread corruption, anti-white racism, human rights abuses and crimes against humanity.

1. Kim Jong-un
   Mobutu Sese Seko
2. Muammar al-Gaddafi
   Ante Pavelić

Kim Jong-un has been the supreme leader of North Korea since December 17, 2011. He is the first North Korean leader to have been born after the country's founding.

1. Ante Pavelić
   Juvénal Habyarimana
2. Genghis Khan
   Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban Communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party Communist state.

1. Chiang Kai-shek
   Genghis Khan
2. Ruhollah Khomeini
   Mengistu Haile Mariam

Chiang Kai-shek was also known as Chiang Chieh-shih and Chiang Chungcheng. He was a political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China from 1928 until his death in 1975.

1. Mengistu Haile Mariam
   Idi Amin
2. Francisco Franco
   Kim Il-sung

Idi Amin Dada was a Ugandan politician and military officer who served as the President of Uganda from 1971 - 1979. Want to know how he became President? He launched a military coup in 1971 and declared himself so!

1. Kim Il-sung
   Leonid Brezhnev
2. Bashar al-Assad
   Augusto Pinochet

Bashar Hafez al-Assad is the 19th and current President of Syria since July 17, 2000. In June 2014, he was included in a list of war crimes indictments of government officials and rebels handed to the International Criminal Court. Of course, he has rejected any such allegations...

1. Augusto Pinochet
   Leonid Brezhnev
2. Ferdinand Marcos
   Talat Pasha

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a corrupt Filipino politician who was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled as a dictator and his regime was infamous for its corruption, extravagance, and brutality.

1. Talat Pasha
   Kim Il-sung
2. Ziaur Rahman
   Omar al-Bashir

Kim Il-sung was the leader of North Korea from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He came to power after the end of Japanese rule in 1945 and authorized the invasion of South Korea in 1950.

1. Omar al-Bashir
   Wojciech Jaruzelski
2. Francisco Franco
   Hideki Tōjō

Francisco Franco was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975. This period in Spanish history is commonly known as Francoist Spain.

1. Ho Chi Minh
   Juvénal Habyarimana
2. Suharto
   Muammar al-Gaddafi

Ho Chi Minh was born Nguyễn Sinh Cung in 1890. He was a Communist revolutionary leader who was Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam, and later served as President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 - 1969.

1. Talat Pasha
   Kim Il-sung
2. Ziaur Rahman
   Muammar al-Gaddafi

Upon Gaddafi's death, then-U.S. President Barack Obama stated that it meant that "the shadow of tyranny over Libya has been lifted." Likewise, then-U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron stated that he was "proud" of his country's role in overthrowing "this brutal dictator."

1. Kim Il-sung
   Mobutu Sese Seko
2. Ferdinand Marcos
   Nikita Khrushchev

During the Cold War, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Did you know that he was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union?

1. Jean-Claude Duvalier
   Hun Sen
2. Mobutu Sese Seko
   Omar al-Bashir

Hun Sen is the 34th and current Prime Minister of Cambodia - a role he has held since 1985. He is responsible for leasing 45 percent of the total land mass in Cambodia—mostly to foreign investors— and therefore threatening more than 150,000 Cambodians with eviction.

1. Hideki Tōjō
   Omar al-Bashir
2. Genghis Khan
   Joseph Stalin

Hideki Tōjō was the 27th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II. He is remembered as the notorious leader who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

1. Joseph Stalin
   Pervez Musharraf
2. Mao Zedong
   Benito Mussolini

Pervez Musharraf is a Pakistani politician and a retired four-star army general who was the tenth President of Pakistan. He served from 2001 until his resignation, to avoid impeachment, in 2008.

1. Benito Mussolini
   Mobutu Sese Seko
2. Idi Amin
   Robert Mugabe

Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (yes, that was his full name) was actually born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu on October 14, 1930. He was the military dictator and President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (which he renamed Zaire in 1971) from 1965 to 1997.

1. Robert Mugabe
   Nikita Khrushchev
2. Jean-Claude Duvalier
   Adolf Hitler

Nicknamed “Baby Doc,” Jean-Claude Duvalier was the President of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in 1986. Thousands of Haitians were killed or tortured, and hundreds of thousands fled the country during his presidency.

1. Adolf Hitler
   Fidel Castro
2. Augusto Pinochet
   Bashar al-Assad

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean general, politician and the dictator of Chile between 1973 and 1990. Following his rise to power, Pinochet persecuted leftists and political critics, leading to the executions of from 1,200 to as many as 80,000 people and the torture of tens of thousands.

1. Bashar al-Assad
   Ho Chi Minh
2. Benito Mussolini
   Nicolae Ceaușescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu was the second and last Communist leader of Romania. His actions against anti-government protesters in 1989 was the case of the Romanian Revolution. By December 25th of that year, he and his wife were executed after being convicted of economic sabotage and genocide.

1. Benito Mussolini
   Hun Sen
2. Suharto
   Pervez Musharraf

Suharto was the second President of Indonesia. He held office for 31 years, from the ousting of Sukarno in 1967, until his resignation in 1998. He is remembered as the most corrupt leader in modern history, having embezzled an alleged $15 billion to $35 billion during his rule.

1. François Duvalier
   Pervez Musharraf
2. Mao Zedong
   Bashar al-Assad

Known as "Papa Doc," François Duvalier was the President of Haiti from 1957 to 1971. He was elected president in 1957 on a populist and black nationalist platform. After thwarting a military coup d'état in 1958, his regime rapidly became totalitarian.

1. Bashar al-Assad
   Ruhollah Khomeini
2. Jean-Claude Duvalier
   Suharto

Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini, known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader and politician. He has been criticized for human rights violations of Iranians, which include his ordering the execution of thousands of political prisoners, war criminals and prisoners of the Iran–Iraq War.

1. Suharto
   Wojciech Jaruzelski
2. Ferdinand Marcos
   Nikita Khrushchev

Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski was a Polish military officer and politician who served as President from 1989 - 1990. On March 31, 2006, the Institute of National Remembrance charged him with committing Communist crimes. He evaded most court appearances, citing poor health.

1. Nikita Khrushchev
   Augusto Pinochet
2. Leonid Brezhnev
   Fidel Castro

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev ruled over the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. During his rule, the global influence of the Soviet Union grew dramatically. However, don't be fooled. His hostility towards reform, as well as his love for cronyism, led to the corruption and socioeconomic decline known as the Brezhnev Stagnation.

1. Fidel Castro
   Pervez Musharraf
2. Jean-Claude Duvalier
   Ante Pavelić

Ante Pavelić was a Croatian fascist general and military dictator. From 1941 - 1945, he was responsible for the persecution of many racial minorities and political opponents in Croatia, including Serbs, Jews, Romani, and anti-fascist Croats.

1. Mengistu Haile Mariam
   Jean-Claude Duvalier
2. Leonid Brezhnev
   Chiang Kai-shek

Mengistu Haile Mariam was born on May 21, 1937, and became the leader of Ethiopia from 1977 -1991. He is responsible for the Ethiopian Red Terror which led to the death of more than 750,000 people.

1. Chiang Kai-shek
   Omar al-Bashir
2. Mobutu Sese Seko
   Adolf Hitler

Omar al-Bashir was the 7th President of Sudan. However, in March 2009, he became the first sitting president to be indicted by the International Criminal Court for allegedly directing a campaign of mass killing, rape, and pillage against civilians in Darfur.

1. Juvénal Habyarimana
   Adolf Hitler
2. Pol Pot
   Mao Zedong

Juvénal Habyarimana was a dictator. Did you know that electoral fraud was suspected for his unopposed re-election? Decide for yourself with these numbers: He won with 98.99 percent of the vote in 1978, 99.97 percent of the vote in 1983, and 99.98 percent of the vote in 1988. Just sayin'...

1. Mao Zedong
   Idi Amin
2. Francisco Franco
   Anastasio Somoza García

Anastasio Somoza García was the President of Nicaragua from 1937 - 1947 and again from 1950 - 1956. In 1955, the constitution was amended to allow him to run for another term. Shortly after being nominated, he was shot on September 21, 1956, by poet Rigoberto López Pérez.

1. Ziaur Rahman
   Francisco Franco
2. Bashar al-Assad
   Hideki Tōjō

Ziaur Rahman was the seventh President of Bangladesh and founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was often criticized for ruthless treatment of his army opposition. He was assassinated by a group of army officers on May 30, 1981.

1. Hideki Tōjō
   Vladimir Lenin
2. Chiang Kai-shek
   Ferdinand Marcos

Vladimir Lenin was the first leader and revolutionary of Soviet Russia, overthrowing the monarchy and turning Russia into a totalitarian state. He is most remembered for the "Red Terror" - a massive campaign by him under the Bolshevik government to imprison and execute the former ruling classes.

1. Ferdinand Marcos
   Kim Jong-il
2. Joseph Stalin
   Talat Pasha

Talat Pasha was one of the leaders of the Young Turks who ruled the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. He was responsible for ordering the arrest and deportation of Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople - beginning the horrific events of the Armenian Genocide which lasted from 1915 - 1923.

1. Genghis Khan
   Joseph Stalin
2. Mobutu Sese Seko
   Wojciech Jaruzelski

Genghis Khan was the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1206 to 1227. He is remembered for launching Mongol invasions that conquered most of Eurasia.