Today’s mass murdering, despotic, totalitarian git is tomorrow’s Nobel Peace Prize winning visionary. However, a few push the envelope too far and end up with the sobriquet of Dictator. These people create a cult of personality, give themselves ludicrously long titles and try to kill as many people as possible.
Stalin is widely considered to hold the record for democide at 43 million souls, but on an annualised basis this only equates to 1.48 million for every year in power. In the Tyrant Top Ten the number one slot goes to a woman, Empress Dowager Cixi with 2.4 million dissenters per year. This is the reason that women should not be allowed to drive a country, indeed not allowed to drive anything. For about 7 days a month they get a bit irritable and murderous. For 25% of the year women can be a tad tetchy and homicidal. When confronted with this alarming irascibility (obviously during the safe three quarters of the year) the response is a flippant ‘Yeah, Sorry about that.’ – not the sort of defence that holds any water in a Human Rights Violation Trial.
Idi Amin had one the most ridiculous titles: ‘His Excellency President for Life Field Marshal Al Hadji Dr. Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, King of Scotland Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular’. Empress Cixi prefered the more modern title of ‘Mother Bitch’.
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