Who was the craziest/wackiest Cold War dictator?

Craziest Dictator

  • Papa Doc

    Votes: 6 3.2%
  • Idi Amin

    Votes: 33 17.8%
  • Emperor Bokassa

    Votes: 42 22.7%
  • Pinochet

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • Pol Pot

    Votes: 37 20.0%
  • Joseph Stalin

    Votes: 4 2.2%
  • Mao Zedong

    Votes: 8 4.3%
  • Saddam Hussein

    Votes: 2 1.1%
  • The Kim Family(Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.)

    Votes: 15 8.1%
  • Turkmenbashi

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • Francisco Nguema

    Votes: 27 14.6%
  • Nicolae Ceaușescu

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • Muammar Qaddafi

    Votes: 2 1.1%

  • Total voters
    185

James G

Gone Fishin'
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You cannot believe every story if you only heed the popular press.
Sometimes back stories are more informative than headlines.

As explained by an Iranian-born co-worker: when Saddam Huissen gassed Kurds, he was getting revenge. One version of the story has Iranian soldiers shooting up an Iraqi Army garrison in Northern Iraq then disappearing back across the border. Since Kurds had no love for Saddam, they allowed Iranian soldiers free passage. Saddam enacted his revenge by gassing Kurdish villagers.

OTOH Lockerbie was a purely military hit ..... with ..... um ........ er ........ a few hundred collateral civilian casualties, as explained by a retired USAF Combat Controller. He and his buddies have just completed surveys of dozens of potential landing strips in North Africa. A USAF CC was flying home - with survey results in his briefcase - when his plane was shot down over Lockerbie, Scotland.
A few years later a Libyan military intelligence officer was imprisoned for planting a bomb on that airliner.
Fairly sure that using lethal CW on civilians was not within the allowed basket of actions by a nation state.[/QUOTE]

@CalBear I don't understand your post here. Have you quoted something and there is a formatting error?

EDIT: Mine is now wrongly formatted too.
 
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