Four historical totalitarian leaders

Pol Pot was a radical marxist leader of Cambodia from 1975-79, who butchered his own people. The four years of nightmarish Khmer Rouge rule led to the state-sponsored extermination of citizens by its own government. Between 1 million and 2 million people were massacred on the "killing fields" of Cambodia or were worked to death through forced labor. Pol Pot's radical vision of transforming the country into a Marxist agrarian society led to the virtual extermination of the country's professional and technical class anyone wearing glasses, for example, was murdered. Pol Pot died in 1998 without remorse, declaring, "My conscience is clear."


Adolf Hitler was a German politician and leader of Nazi Party and served as head of state from 1934 to1945. Hitler had became leader of a small but growing political party that he took over because he needed a party on his own. They used propaganda, they ware special badges and uniforms they rendered their special solute. Nazi also made appeal to the german youth. He moved quickly to establish a dictatorship. He used terror to given power while maintaining on air legality throughout. In the economy sphere all strikes were made illegal and unions were abolished. The press was fell under total state control. Books were burned, modern art prohibited. The Nazi tolerated privilege and wealth but only when is served the Party.

Joseph Stalin was a first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 to 1953.

Stalin issued the “general party line “anyone why deviated from that line was condemned to either exile or execution – in most cases execution. People went to work one day and simply did not return –they were either killed immediately or send to the Gulag. By 1938 at least one million people were in prison, some 8.5 million been arrested and sent to the Gulag and nearly 800.000 has been executed. Stalin trained officers filled all top-level posts and terror become one of the principal features of the government itself. Newspapers, films and radio broadcast endless social achievements and capitalist evil. Stalin appeared in public but his presence was everywhere portraits, statues, books, films and quotations from his books. They were constant shortage of food but vodka was always available. Housing was poor and short supply.    

 

Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier was the totalitarian leader of Haiti. Up to 60,000 Haitians died under the 1957-71 reign of Duvalier, and millions were exiled. With his henchmen, the Tontons Macoutes Duvalier terrorized and murdered potential political foes and ordinary Haitians. Trained as a doctor hence his ironic  nickname Duvalier declared himself President-for-Life in 1964 and portrayed himself as a powerful leader a portrait shows him posing with Jesus Christ. His corrupt policies spawned a fabulously wealthy elite and a dirt-poor populace Haitians' per capita annual income under Duvalier was $80, the lowest in the Western Hemisphere. After his death, his pudgy, somewhat dim son Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier was enthroned, and carried on his father's venal policies until he was driven out of the country in 1986.