Reading up on the topic of dictators in wikipedia, the list seems to go on and on. Very hard, even for the most positive person, to see any trend in dictatorship; is the world getting any better? The twentieth centruy was punished by Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Marshall Joseph Tito, Kim Jong-il, Slobodan Milosevic, General Augusto Pinochet, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Nicholas II, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, Idi Amin and Ho Chi Minh. But even now, on the treshold of the twenty-first century, civilians had and have to suffer under the likes of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, Thein Sein, Isaias Afewerki, Omar Al-Bashir, Islam Karimov, Bashar al-Assad, Raul Castro, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Hugo Chavez, Robert Mugabe, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Alexander Lukashenko. And shamefully we have to admit that we didn't even know all of those names...
I suspect Kim Jong Un isn't here to pick flowers in the sunshine.
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