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In Romania, Communist Party leader and President Nicolae Ceaușescu even had the same title, Conducător (Romanian for leader), as earlier dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu. U.S.-backed Indonesian president Suharto was awarded the title of "Father of Development" by the Golkar and Armed Forces-controlled Parliament in 1983.
The plotters ousted President Makarios III and replaced him with pro-Enosis (Greek irridentist) nationalist Nikos Sampson as dictator. The Sampson regime was described as a puppet state, whose ultimate aim was the annexation of the island by Greece [92] [93] Dương Văn Minh South Vietnam: President North Vietnam: 30 April 1975 Fall of Saigon
20th-century leaders typically described as dictators, from left to right and top to bottom, include Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany; Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile; Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party; Benito Mussolini, Duce and Prime Minister of Italy; and Kim Il Sung, Supreme Leader of ...
Unitary presidential constitutional republic under conjugal military dictatorship: Asia: Republic of Rwanda [82] 1973: 1994: Juvénal Habyarimana: National Revolutionary Movement for Development: Hutu supremacy Anti-Communism Ultranationalism Social Conservatism Right-wing populism Tropical Fascism Unitary one-party presidential republic under ...
A dictatorship where power resides in the hands of one single person or polity. That person may be, for example, an absolute monarch or a dictator, but can also be an elected president. The Roman Republic made dictators to lead during times of war; but
President of Venezuela: 1908 Venezuelan coup d'état, removed from office while abroad 1911 Porfirio Díaz: Mexico: 33rd President of Mexico: Mexican Revolution: 1917 Alexander Kerensky: Russian Republic: Minister-President of the Russian Republic: October Revolution: 1917, 1926 Bernardino Machado: Portugal: Third and eighth President of Portugal
We collected old photos of major leaders and dictators, past and current, ... so not every major figure from the 20th and 21st centuries made it into the post. Check the pictures out below.
This is a list of current heads of state and heads of government. In some cases, mainly in presidential systems , one leader is head of state and head of government . In other cases, mainly in semi-presidential and parliamentary systems , the head of state and the head of government are different people.