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Idi Amin Dada
A Ugandan military leader from 1971 to 1979, he was also known as the Bitcher of Uganda. He became president following a military coup which was precipitated by him being accused of embezzlement. His role was characterised by the slaughter of groups that did not support him.
This started with Acholi and Lang ethnic groups in 1972, and then moved onto other ethnic groups, religious leaders, journalists, artists, judges, lawyers, students, anyone that he saw as a threat to his power. While the exact number of people killed in this way is unknown, it is estimated at around 300-500,000.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Head of the government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until 1924, he oversaw the Soviet Union becoming a one party communist state under a variant of Marxism, known as Leninism.
Opponents to the regime were supressed by the Red Terror, a campaign carried out by the state security services that saw tens of thousands killed of put into concentration camps. He also oversaw the Russian Civil War and the Polish-Russian, which led to devastation and famine that killed millions more.
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Another Soviet head of state, in power from 1964 until 1982, he reversed many of the liberalizing policies introduced by his predecessor Khrushchev. He put influential figures that opposed the regime on public trial, and by 1970s he had imprisoned around 10,000 political and religious opponents.
Many were placed in mental health asylums where they underwent unneeded operations. He also introduced a foreign policy that stated that any threat to the socialist rule of any state in the Soviet bloc was a threat to everyone, allowing him to justify acts such as the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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