World's Dictators

By IntroBooks Team

Hitler or Stalin are the names that instantly strike us when
spoken of the word dictator. Cruel and horrible are what you
can say about them. Well, they weren't the only ones. There
have been many that have subjected their people to living in
an austere environment and were subject to extreme
punishments if their rules were broken. The punishments
usually led to torturous death.
Countries that are under dictators are normally exposed to
extreme poverty, exploitive administrations, and unceasing
defilement of their basic human rights. People standing for their
rights are brutally murdered and set an example to the public
to see what could happen to them if they go against their
leader.
This comprises of some of the most powerful dictators that
have ruled in the past while some of them are still in power,
as this Book is being written.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IntroBooks
• Release date: Dec 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393840428

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World's Dictators

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Preface

Hitler or Stalin are the names that instantly strike us when spoken of the word dictator. Cruel and horrible are what you can say about them. Well, they weren’t the only ones. There have been many that have subjected their people to living in an austere environment and were subject to extreme punishments if their rules were broken. The punishments usually led to torturous death.

Countries that are under dictators are normally exposed to extreme poverty, exploitive administrations, and unceasing defilement of their basic human rights. People standing for their rights are brutally murdered and set an example to the public to see what could happen to them if they go against their leader.

This comprises of some of the most powerful dictators that have ruled in the past while some of them are still in power, as this Book is being written.

Introduction

History has witnessed several martinets who have ruled by oppressing people and endeavoured to annihilate their enemies to gain absolute power. Such tyrants have been referred to as dictators. The term dictator came to existence when there was a title given in Roman Republic to a magistrate who was appointed by the Senate to rule when there was a state of emergency in the Republic.

Although earlier when the term came to existence there was no negative meaning to it because once the duration of a magistrates rule as a dictator was over he had to resume his job as a magistrate again and give his account of happenings at the time of his rule.

The term started getting negative impacts when Cornelius Sulla, a skilled Roman General who held the highest gallantry in the Roman court – the grass crown, took over