AHC: Get a Female Dictator into Power

[politicalnomad]

As I noted above, Margot Honnecker was not a full or even candidate member of the Politburo. Even in 1987, "the only two women members, Ingeborg Lange and Margaret Müller, candidates for thirteen and twenty-three years, respectively, were not selected to full membership." http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-5120.html

There's also the small problem that as far as I can tell, the rest of the Politburo hated her guts. By the 1970s, the ruling heads of Warsaw Pact states are generally of the "someone everyone can live with" persuasion.

As far as Elena Ceausescu, she was so loathed in Romania that there's a 50/50 chance of a mass uprising if she ascends to power, an uprising that the Soviet Union would love to be able to get behind.

 

[Byzantion]

Okay, so your challenge here is incredibly simple yet pretty difficult: give a woman dictatorial power over a country. Absolute monarchs don't count. Bonus points if they have the necessary disposition and retain power for long enough to do some incredibly fucked up shit.

What if Mao' s widow ruled China with her allies ?

 

[SealTheRealDeal]

What if Mao' s widow ruled China with her allies ?

North Korean style dynastic communism, but in China

 

[Anarcho-Occultist]

Apologies if this already came up but doesn’t Indira Gandhi come very close to qualifying assuming she didn’t already?

Besides her, maybe Eva Peron if she lived longer and the anti-Peronist coup didn’t happen. I’m sure China also could’ve had a female leader from the Gang of Four too. And if Kim Il Sung only had daughters they’d probably still rule North Korea after him.

 

[Doesntmatter]

I'm surprised Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo-jong hasn't been mentioned here.

 

[David T]

Besides her, maybe Eva Peron if she lived longer and the anti-Peronist coup didn’t happen.

No. The military was dead set against having her lead the country, and it was military opposition as well as her health problems that made her withdraw her candidacy as vice-president in 1951.

 

[Byzantion]

Okay, so your challenge here is incredibly simple yet pretty difficult: give a woman dictatorial power over a country. Absolute monarchs don't count. Bonus points if they have the necessary disposition and retain power for long enough to do some incredibly fucked up shit.

What if Yulia Timoshenko came to power again in Ukraine and rules with emergency powers ?

 

[LeX]

Kim Jong Un proves too dissolute or develops some mental issues, making him increasingly unpresentable. Starting 2012-2015, actual control of the country shifts to his younger sister Kim Yo Jong, and in late 2017, she receives a new title that overshadows the prestige of Jong Un. Her ascendancy conveniently coincides with North Korea toning down its nuclear provocations that reached a height earlier in the year, focusing more on economic development, and inter-Korean relations.