Who knows another dictator (famous) that did things similar to what Hitler did during World War II?

Question

During World War II, Hitler took advantage of the trouble that Germany was in and told his people that it was the Jews fault that Germany was in trouble. He convinced his people that the Jews caused Germany to be in turmoil and Germans believed him because they needed to hear something from someone that it was a certain group or certain person's fault that Germany was in trouble.

Does anyone know another dictator, preferably famous, that did what Hitler did?

Answer 1

Pol Pot / Khmer Rouge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot

Idi Amin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin

edit: Damn, the other poster got to them first, but I'll add

Francisco Franco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco

Answer 2

Stalin, Adi Amin, Robert Muguabe, Saddam Huessin, Pol Pot
and other tyrants had inflicted horrid genocide on innocent people.
The Junta in Argentina in the early seventies and mid eighties
arrested and executed un-told thousands of innocent Argentinian's without trials. The regime of Augusto Pinochet
butchered infinite number of Chilians after the ouster of the Allende goverment.

Unfortunately, Hitler and his henchmen were very good teachers.
There are leaders today who are very willing students. For example Fidel Castro, The Somoza regime in Nicaruraga,
Daniel Ortega and the sandistas have done tremendous harm
to the inferstructurte of. Nicaruraga.

Answer 3

Pol Pot
Idi Amin
There was a great genocide in Armenia in the 1980's I think. Not sure the person/regime responsible.
The American government could be seen as persecuting the Native Americans in a similar fashion, just over a longer period of time.

Answer 4

Benito Mussolini grew to become into dictator of Italy for greater or less two decades, provided that 22 october 1922, 3 hundred and sixty 5 days of march of Rome, till 1945, whilst the partigian killed him in "Loreto sq." in Dongo, in Lombardy... Vetra

Answer 5

Although not strictly speaking a dictator- Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has blamed the situation of his people on whites holding a monopoly of land ownership. He has thrown people off the land and killed many whites, forcing them to flee and has cracked down on all opposition.

The reason I say he's not strictly speaking a dictator is because he has not (as far as I'm aware) outlawed elections he has made it virtually impossible to campaign fairly against his party, the Zanu-PF.

Answer 6

Man, the list is long.

Big league:
Lenin/ USSR, Ukraine
Stalin/ USSR, East Europe
Mao tse Tung/ China
Ho Chi Minh/ North Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
Pol Pot/ Cambodia
Castro/ Cuba

"Little" league
Saddam
Arafat
Khomeini
Assad/Syria
Khaddafi
Taliban
Sudan (cant recall the name of their honcho)
Nigeria (Biafra rebellion)
Congo (Katanga)
Angola
Mozambique
Ethiopia (these last three go to Cuba and USSR)
Indonesia
India (forcing the partition, invasion of the independent states + 3 wars- all thanks to Gandhi)
Kim's/ North Korea

historic? Chingiz Khan of the Mongols I guess

many, many more

Answer 7

There was his contemporary Josef Stalin who killed many peasants and was ruthless toward people who did not think like him or was a threat to him. There was Pol Pot of the Khner Rouge in Cambodia who reportedly killed over 3,000,000. when he ruled in the 60;s and 70's . Idi Amin killed close to a million of his enemies until he was overthrown in 1979.

Answer 8

In the same era you had Joseph Stalin. Later in Cambodia Pol Pot tried to blame everything on the "intellectuals" and killed millions and at the moment in Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is doing the same driving white farmers off their properties and killing them if they don't go.

Answer 9

Stalin killed a great many peasants.

Answer 10

how about the leader of iran ????