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In 1941, the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed a concert to celebrate his birthday, [431] and in 1942, Time magazine named him "Man of the Year". [430] When Stalin learnt that people in Western countries affectionately called him "Uncle Joe" he was initially offended, regarding it as undignified. [432]
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American white nationalist author Michael H. Hart.Published by his father's publishing house, it was his first book and was reprinted in 1992 with revisions.
The word dictator comes from the Latin word dictātor, agent noun from dictare (say repeatedly, assert, order). [4] [5] A dictator was a Roman magistrate given sole power for a limited duration. Originally an emergency legal appointment in the Roman Republic and the Etruscan culture, the term dictator did not have the negative meaning it has ...
Pakistani general Pervez Musharraf, called himself "chief executive" after 1999 coup. Jean-Bédel Bokassa would proclaim the Central African Empire in 1976, and in a lavish coronation ceremony the following year, awarded himself the full title of " Emperor of Central Africa by the will of the Central African people, united within the national ...
Gunther called him "easily the best educated and most sophisticated of the dictators", and the only national leader of 1940 who was an intellectual. [14] German historian Ernst Nolte said that "His command of contemporary philosophy and political literature was at least as great as that of any other contemporary European political leader." [109]
Representative government has been a luxury that relatively few people have enjoyed throughout human history. And while the vast majority of dictators fall short of Hitler or Stalin-like levels of ...
Bukele, the 41-year-old who half-jokingly calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator,” is widely popular in El Salvador, and increasingly across Latin America, because of his massive ...
Given the stakes for our democracy in the 2024 election, it’s worth considering why Trump continually praises dictators and who he is trying to reach with his incendiary rhetoric, writes ...