swap_horiz Joseph Stalin Alternatives

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Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee (1883-1967) was a British Labour politician who served as prime minister from 1945 to 1951. His postwar g...

20TH Century Prime Minister Post Wwii Head Of Government

9.3 Excellent

2

Willy Brandt

Willy Brandt was a German Social Democratic politician who served as Governing Mayor of West Berlin from 1957 to 1966 an...

20TH Century Chancellor Ostpolitik Head Of Government

9.1 Excellent

3

Konrad Adenauer

Konrad Adenauer was a German Christian Democratic politician and the first Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of...

20TH Century Founding Father Chancellor Head Of Government

9.1 Excellent

4

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev was the final leader of the Soviet Union, serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 198...

20TH Century Reform General Secretary Ussr

8.0 Great

5

Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and statesman who led the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 19...

China 20TH Century Leader Communist

6.5 Fair

6

Jiang Zemin

Jiang Zemin was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1989 to 2002 an...

20TH Century President General Secretary Head Of State

5.9 Mediocre

7

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev was a Soviet Communist Party leader who served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet...

Cold War 20TH Century Communist General Secretary

5.0 Mediocre

8

Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista in 1959...

20TH Century President Revolutionary Cuba

4.5 Poor

9

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary and political theorist who founded the Bolshevik Party and led the October Re...

20TH Century Revolutionary Leader Communist

4.0 Poor

10

Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) led the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, first as First Secretary and from 19...

20TH Century General Secretary Head Of State Russia Cpsu

3.1 Poor

11

Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who has served as president of the People's Republic of China since 2013. He is also...

Modern China President Communist

3.0 Poor

12

Robert Mugabe

Robert Mugabe was a Zimbabwean nationalist leader and politician who served as the country's prime minister from 1980 to...

20TH Century President Zimbabwe Dictator

2.5 Poor

13

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary and the principal founder of the People's Republic of China, proclaimed...

China 20TH Century Revolutionary Communist

2.0 Poor

14

Augusto Pinochet

Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean army general who led the military government established after the 1973 coup against Pres...

Military 20TH Century Chile Dictator

2.0 Poor

15

Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer and revolutionary who led the 1969 coup that overthrew King Idris I. He go...

20TH Century Pan Arab Libya Authoritarian

2.0 Poor

16

Hafez al-Assad

Hafez al-Assad was a Syrian military officer and Ba'ath Party politician who served as president from 1971 until his dea...

20TH Century President Syria Dictator

2.0 Poor

17

Ferdinand Marcos

Ferdinand Marcos was president of the Philippines from 1965 until 1986. His administration declared martial law in 1972,...

20TH Century President Philippines Dictator

2.0 Poor

18

Kim Il-sung

Kim Il-sung was a North Korean revolutionary, communist politician, and founding leader of the Democratic People's Repub...

20TH Century Korea Revolutionary Leader

1.5 Poor

19

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi Ba'ath Party politician who served as president of Iraq from 1979 until 2003. His rule was a...

20TH Century President Iraq Dictator

1.5 Poor

20

Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong-il was the North Korean political leader who succeeded his father, Kim Il-sung, and served as the country's Sup...

20TH Century North Korea Communist Dictator

1.0 Poor