Your favourite dictator.

[Simster]

Hugo Chavez is worth a shout, purely for putting the time in Venezuela back by 30 minutes so that it has its own Time Zone. Whats the point of being a dictator if you don't do random stuff like that....

Erm, Chavez is not a dictator.

 

[Ernest]

Thread over

 

[Sompting_Seagull]

This is my fav 'Dick Tator'

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Enver Hoxha. The man who turned Albania from being a backward, rural little country into being a glorious and scientifically-correct model of the ideal Socialist state. He had no time for revisionist scum like the Soviets and the Chinese (falling out with both countries) but instead single-handedly he led the Albanian people into a glorious peoples' republic and onto the sunlit uplands of Socialist freedom and economic prosperity.

This. China broke off relations with Albania because they were too Socialist

 

[beorhthelm]

a case has to be made for Hitler. so many dictators stumble into it, right place, right time, right backing of the CIA. Hitler had a vision and went out to make it work for him.

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

This is my fav 'Dick Tator'

LOL. Spot on

 

[Buzzer]

Enver Hoxha. The man who turned Albania from being a backward, rural little country into being a glorious and scientifically-correct model of the ideal Socialist state. He had no time for revisionist scum like the Soviets and the Chinese (falling out with both countries) but instead single-handedly he led the Albanian people into a glorious peoples' republic and onto the sunlit uplands of Socialist freedom and economic prosperity.

I presume you are being ironic but just in case you are not I'll remind you that his mate Stalin advised him to rename the Albanian Communist Party 'the Albanian Party of Labour' and used it as an opportunity to murder 14 members of the 31-member Central Committee and 32 People's Assembly deputies. He brought in an all-encompassing law in 1952 where anyone aged 11 or over found guilty conspiring against the state, damaging state property, or committing economic sabotage was given the death penalty. He liked this law and invoked it often. In 1956, when Kruschev denounced the Stalin atrocities Hoxha was one of the first to leap to Stalin's defence - not surprising seeing how the Soviet Union had propped up Albania's economy throughout Hoxha's cruel reign. And then after the Chinese start propping up Albania in around 1960 he attacks Soviet imperialism and decadence.

After pissing off the Chinese too, he attempts self-sufficiency and of course - as with all planned economies - it fails spectacularly. His 2nd in command Mehmet Shehu died in 1981 at the hands of Hoxha for refusing to move aside. Just for a laugh Hoxha has his successor killed too. He also kills off the Shehu family members and supporters within the Police, Civil Service and military.

Socialism - just say no, kids.

 

[Bognor Bystander]

Fidel Castro would get my vote !

 

[Buzzer]

Erm, Chavez is not a dictator.

I beg to differ. Chavez is very much a dictator.

 

[Buzzer]

This. China broke off relations with Albania because they were too Socialist

They broke off relations because Hoxha was too mental even for them.

 

[Simster]

I beg to differ. Chavez is very much a dictator.

He's hardly Kim Jong Il is he?

He was democratically elected in 1998 and a military coup in 2002 was put down by the people because he was so overwhelmingly popular. He is a socialist in a country that suffers absurd levels of wealth inequality, so no surprise that he is smeared by people with money.

 

[fork me]

There was also a fella in Turkmenistan, forgot his name though.

He cancelled all pensions and made pensioners pay back the last 2 years worth.

Only 5 years ago aswell.

Proper loony behaviour

Saparmurat Niyazov, decared himself "President for life" in 1999, then died in 2006.

He brought in all sorts of crazy laws:

He renamed the days of the week and the months after Turkmen heroes and members of his own family.
He closed all the hospitals outside the capital and said ill people should come there for treatment.
He banned dogs from the capital because he didn't like their smell.
He outlawed gold teeth replacements and said Turkmens shoudl "gnaw on bones like dogs do" to strengthen their teeth.

Now the good bits:

He outlawed lip synching at concerts and banned the opera and ballet.
He declared gas, water, electricity and salt should be free for everyone.
He ordered an "ice palace" to be built in the capital as he thought it important that Turkmen people learned to skate, even though it's a desert country.

A nutter indeed.

 

[fork me]

I presume you are being ironic but just in case you are not I'll remind you that his mate Stalin advised him to rename the Albanian Communist Party 'the Albanian Party of Labour' and used it as an opportunity to murder 14 members of the 31-member Central Committee and 32 People's Assembly deputies. He brought in an all-encompassing law in 1952 where anyone aged 11 or over found guilty conspiring against the state, damaging state property, or committing economic sabotage was given the death penalty. He liked this law and invoked it often. In 1956, when Kruschev denounced the Stalin atrocities Hoxha was one of the first to leap to Stalin's defence - not surprising seeing how the Soviet Union had propped up Albania's economy throughout Hoxha's cruel reign. And then after the Chinese start propping up Albania in around 1960 he attacks Soviet imperialism and decadence.

After pissing off the Chinese too, he attempts self-sufficiency and of course - as with all planned economies - it fails spectacularly. His 2nd in command Mehmet Shehu died in 1981 at the hands of Hoxha for refusing to move aside. Just for a laugh Hoxha has his successor killed too. He also kills off the Shehu family members and supporters within the Police, Civil Service and military.

Socialism - just say no, kids.

Those acts have nothing to do with socialism but everything to do with a dictatorship. Do you understand what the words mean?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I presume you are being ironic but just in case you are not I'll remind you that his mate Stalin advised him to rename the Albanian Communist Party 'the Albanian Party of Labour' and used it as an opportunity to murder 14 members of the 31-member Central Committee and 32 People's Assembly deputies. He brought in an all-encompassing law in 1952 where anyone aged 11 or over found guilty conspiring against the state, damaging state property, or committing economic sabotage was given the death penalty. He liked this law and invoked it often. In 1956, when Kruschev denounced the Stalin atrocities Hoxha was one of the first to leap to Stalin's defence - not surprising seeing how the Soviet Union had propped up Albania's economy throughout Hoxha's cruel reign. And then after the Chinese start propping up Albania in around 1960 he attacks Soviet imperialism and decadence.

After pissing off the Chinese too, he attempts self-sufficiency and of course - as with all planned economies - it fails spectacularly. His 2nd in command Mehmet Shehu died in 1981 at the hands of Hoxha for refusing to move aside. Just for a laugh Hoxha has his successor killed too. He also kills off the Shehu family members and supporters within the Police, Civil Service and military.

Socialism - just say no, kids.

Big fan of Norman Wisdom though?

 

[Brovion]

I presume you are being ironic but just in case you are not I'll remind you that his mate Stalin advised him to rename the Albanian Communist Party 'the Albanian Party of Labour' and used it as an opportunity to murder 14 members of the 31-member Central Committee and 32 People's Assembly deputies. He brought in an all-encompassing law in 1952 where anyone aged 11 or over found guilty conspiring against the state, damaging state property, or committing economic sabotage was given the death penalty. He liked this law and invoked it often. In 1956, when Kruschev denounced the Stalin atrocities Hoxha was one of the first to leap to Stalin's defence - not surprising seeing how the Soviet Union had propped up Albania's economy throughout Hoxha's cruel reign. And then after the Chinese start propping up Albania in around 1960 he attacks Soviet imperialism and decadence.

After pissing off the Chinese too, he attempts self-sufficiency and of course - as with all planned economies - it fails spectacularly. His 2nd in command Mehmet Shehu died in 1981 at the hands of Hoxha for refusing to move aside. Just for a laugh Hoxha has his successor killed too. He also kills off the Shehu family members and supporters within the Police, Civil Service and military.

Socialism - just say no, kids.

So he shot a few Revisionists and capitalist backsliders. It's not a crime is it? And of course Albania is SO much better now ...

 

[Buzzer]

Those acts have nothing to do with socialism but everything to do with a dictatorship. Do you understand what the words mean?

Those acts were all done in the name of socialism. As was Hitler's, Pol Pot's, Stalin's, Mao's..... do we see a pattern emerging here?

 

[Buzzer]

It's not a crime is it?

The Albanians thought so. His wife and henchmen got banged up in '92.

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

Does the British Government count

 

[Tom Bombadil]

So he shot a few Revisionists and capitalist backsliders. It's not a crime is it? And of course Albania is SO much better now ...

Exactly, it's the only language capitalist running dogs understand.

 

[Brovion]

The Albanians thought so. His wife and henchmen got banged up in '92.

The actions of an unholy alliance of counter-revolutionary elements and mafia gangsters. Seems Enver's purges didn't go far enough ...