Look to the West, Selatorum means "of the not-soldiers"As for Ataturk, agree as per my above commentI have a lot of admiration for the man, although his legacy for ethnic minorities is a bit "in the grey"...
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Which dictator would you rather live under?
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Does Lee Kuan Yew count? He was certainly authoritarian but seems to have tried to be more benevolent in comparison to many of the other despots in the 20th century.
Puzzling, isn't it? Even aside from Mussolini's own policies, I'd expect much better than 2-1 in favor of a guy whose country -- unlike Chiang's or Stalin's -- wasn't the target of an Axis invasion intent on exterminating the population.
I mean, there are several movies about Atatürk in Turkey.
I am sure some of them can even be found in English.
Thought I suppose they tend to have a more George Washington than Alexander the Great energy, so "epic" might not fit well. (Washington and Alexander are more general examples, not specific)
Why are some people saying Chiang Kai Shek? Even if he governing wasn't bad, if you live under him your town will be a warzone in WW2. That dosn't sound fun.
He certainly created an... interesting... place:opposed the church and promoted the breaking of racial barriers. At least his Rousseau-ist weird regime triedJosé Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia - Wikipedia
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Indira Gandhi. Sure you would be dealing with a terrible economy and Sanjay's shenanigans with sterilization, but there is little fear of getting killed for political reasons even if you protested against the government (you would be promptly imprisoned of course, but its better than being thrown off a helicopter). If you have good connections with the congress party, you can expect a comfortable life.
One of my favorite anecdotes from the Spanish Civil War was a Republican communique expressing bafflement about why the war industries they'd turned over to anarchists weren't producing weapons.
Post-war Taiwan would easily be a better place to live than Fascist Italy or Stalinist USSR.
And yet he still killed far fewer people than Tito, who you praised earlier in this thread.
I think where he succeeded was not in the being benevolent part but in realizing that he needs to keep the system he built clean from corruption. I’ve got Singaporean friends who thinks that Lee’s ruling party has been in power for too long, Singapore needs to freshen up etc. but admits that unless there is a massive corruption scandal that gets uncovered, it is difficult to vote them out.