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Abimael Guzmán was the Peruvian Maoist who founded Shining Path, a guerrilla movement that began armed struggle in Peru in 1980.

Albanian communist revolutionary Enver Hoxha ruled Albania as a ruthless dictator from 1944 to 1985, isolating the country with a fierce anti-revisionist ideology.

Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader who served as Deputy Prime Minister during the 1975–1979 regime and was later indicted by a UN-backed tribunal for crimes against humanity.

Pol Pot was a Cambodian communist dictator who led the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, overseeing a brutal genocide that killed an estimated 1.5 million people.