To me, there are three dictators in world history that were very sinister to me in many ways. Dictators, as defined in the dictionary, is a person who rules with utter supremacy, and usually uses force to get their way. Of coarse, I live in a democracy, which is free and equal representation of the people. Dictators usually go for the government system called “communism”, which is an unrestricted political system: the political theory or system in which all property and wealth is owned in a classless civilization by all the affiliates of that society. Maybe, if I lived in a communist country, my views would be different. We are all brought up in a society that we only know and get used to. We may not like it or agree to it, but it is all we know. You know the saying, “If you can’t beat them, join them.” I am happy to live in a democracy because I feel we have the rights and freedom to speak, write, and express views. Everyone always says this is a free country, but I feel we also have our restrictions as well. There are three worst dictators in history I can name. They are Joseph Stalin, USSR, Adolf Hitler, Germany, and Saddam Hussein, Iraq. Due to the resources I have come up with, these dictators were so merciless as to how they treated their people.

Joseph Stalin was born “loseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili” on December 18^th, 1878 to a cobbler in Gori, Georgia. At seven years of age, he contacted small pox that eternally blemished his face. At age twelve, two horse-drawn carriage accidents left his left arm permanently smashed up. At sixteen years of age, he received a scholarship to a Georgian Orthodox seminary, where he revolted against the imperialist and religious order. In 1899, he was disqualified after missing his final exams. According to wikipedia, Joseph Stalin could not afford his tuition fees either. Before long after leaving the seminary, Vladmir Lenin inspired him to become a Marxist revolutionary, eventually joining Lenin’s Bolsheviks in 1903. After being marked by the Tsar’s secret police for his actions, he became a full-time revolutionary and criminal. Joseph Stalin became one of the chief operatives of the “Bolsheviks” in the Caucasus, systematizing paramilitaries, inciting strikes, spreading misinformation and take on bank robberies, kidnappings, and extortion. Joseph Stalin quit the party over its prohibition on bank robberies, carrying out a large robbery on a bank shipment that resulted in the death of 40 people. He flew to Baku where he organized Muslim Azeris and Persians in partisan activities, including the killings of many “Black Hundreds” right-wing supporters of the Tsar, and conducted protection rackets, ransom kidnappings, counterfeiting operations and robberies. Joseph Stalin was caught and sent to Siberia seven times but escaped all but the last of these exiles. In 1912, he eventually adopted the name Stalin, which means steel. Joseph Stalin used it as an alias in his published works, such as the newspaper Pravda on April, 1912. During his last exile, Stalin was drafted by the Russian army to fight World War I, but was found unfit for service because of his damaged arm. From 1922 to 1953, Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee. In the years following Linin’s death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin commenced a command economy, replacing the New Economic Policy of the 1920s with Five-Year Plans and launching a period of rapid industrialization and economic collectivization. The upheaval in the agricultural sector disrupted food production, resulting in widespread famine, such as the catastrophic Soviet famine of 1932-1933, known in Ukraine as the Holodomor. During the late 1930s, Stalin initiated the Great Purge (also known as the "Great Terror"), a cause to cleanse the Communist Party of people accused of disruption, intimidation, or treason; he completed it to the military and other subdivisions of Soviet society. The objects of scorn were often implemented, incarcerated in Gulag labor camps or deported. In the years following, millions of racial minorities were also deported. In 1939, the Soviet Union under Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, followed by a Soviet invasion of Poland, Finland, the Baltics, Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. After Germany dishonored the deal in 1941, the Soviet Union joined the Associates to play a large position in the Axis defeat, at the cost of the largest death toll for any country in the war. Thereafter, disagreeing with reports at allied conferences, Stalin set up communist governments in most of Eastern Europe, forming the Eastern bloc, behind what was referred to as an "Iron Curtain" of Soviet rule. This launched the long period of rivalry known as the Cold War. Stalin made efforts to supplement his public impression, and a cult of personality developed around him. However, after his death from cerebral hemorrhage on March 5^th, 1953 , his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, denounced his legacy, initiating the period known as de-Stalinization.

Adolf Hitler was born at the Gasthof zum Pommer, an inn in Braunau am Inn, Austria–Hungary on April 20^th, 1889. At the age of three, his family moved to Germany where Adolf Hitler would obtain Lower Bavarian rather than Austrian as his lifelong native tongue. Adolf Hitler was close to his mother, but his father beat him years after his mother’s retirement and poor farming strategies. Adolf Hitler was a poor student, which he later accredited to upheaval against his father, who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps as a customs official. Adolf Hitler became a leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, also known as the “Nazi” party. He was ruler of Germany beginning 1933 to 1945, serving as chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and as head of the state in 1934 to 1945. A veteran of World War I, Adolf Hitler joined the Nazi Party in 1919 and became leader of NSDAP in 1921. Following his incarceration after a unsuccessful overthrow in Bavaria in 1923, he was rewarded foundation by promoting German nationalism, anti-Semitism, and anti-communism with compelling public speaking and misinformation. Adolf Hitler was chosen chancellor in 1933 and quickly recognized and made actuality of his mental picture of a totalitarian, autocratic, single party, national socialist dictatorship. Adolf Hitler chased a foreign policy with the confirmed ambition of the capture Lebensraum, which means living space, for the Aryan people, commanding the resources of the state towards this goal. His restructure Wehrmacht invaded Poland in 1939, causing the United Kingdom and France to announce war against the Third Reich, leading to the eruption of the second World War in Europe. Within three years, Germany and the Axis powers taken most of Europe and most of northern Africa, east and southeast of Asia, and the Pacific Ocean. However, the partners controlled the upper hand from 1942 beyond, and in 1945 allied armies attacked Germany from all sides. His forces devoted numerous slaughters during the war, including the methodical killing of as many as 17 million civilians, an estimated 6 million of Jewish people targeted in a “genocide”, known as “The Holocaust.” Throughout the last days of the war, Adolf Hitler married his long-time girlfriend, Eva Braun. Two days later, on April 30^th, 1945 Adolf Hitler committed suicide while concurrently biting into a cyanide capsule and shooting himself, along with his newlywed wife, Eva Braun.

Saddam Hussein, also known as Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was born in the town of Al-Awja, 8 miles from the town of Tikrit, Iraq to a family of shepherds from the al-Begat tribal group on April 28^th, 1937. His mother named him Saddam, which in Arabic means “one who confronts.” He is always referred by this personal name, which may be followed by the patronymic and other fundamentals. Saddam Hussein never knew his father because he left six months before Saddam was born. Suddenly, afterwards, Saddam Hussein’s 13 year old brother died from cancer. The infant Saddam Hussein was sent to the family of his maternal uncle until he was three years of age. His mother remarried, and Saddam Hussein gained three half-brothers through this marriage. His stepfather treated Saddam Hussein harshly after his return. When Saddam Hussein was 10 years old, he returned to live with his uncle in Baghdad. Under the leadership of his uncle, Saddam Hussein attended a nationalistic high school in Baghdad. After secondary school, Saddam Hussein studied Iraqi law school for three years, dropping out in 1957 at the age of 20 to join the revolutionary pan-Arab Ba’ath Party, in which his uncle was supporter. During this time, Saddam Hussein apparently supported himself as a secondary school teacher. In 1958, after Saddam Hussein joined the Ba’ath Party a year later, army officers led by General Abd al-Karim Qasim overthrew Faisal II of Iraq. The Ba’athist opposed the new government , and in 1959, Saddam Hussein was involved in the unsuccessful United States backed plot to assassinate Abdul Karim Qasim. Army officers with ties to the Ba’ath Party, overthrew Qasim in a coup in 1963. Ba’athist leaders were appointed to the cabinet and Abdul Salam Arif became President. Arif dismissed and arrested the Ba’athist leaders later that year. Saddam Hussein returned to Iraq, but was imprisoned in 1964. Prior to his incarceration in 1968, Saddam Hussein held the position as Secretary to the Ba’ath Party. Saddam Hussein escaped from prison in 1967 and rapidly became a leading member of the party. In 1968, Saddam Hussein participated in a bloodless coup led by Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr that overthrew Abdul Rahman Arf. Al-Bakr was named President and Saddam Hussein was named his deputy and deputy chairman of the Ba’athist Revolutionary Command Counsil. Although Saddam Hussein was al-Bakr’s deputy, he was strong behind the scenes party politician. By 1969, Saddam Hussein had become the moving force behind the party. From July 16^th, 1969 to April 9^th, 2003, Saddam Hussein was President of Iraq. In 1979, al-Bakr started to make treaties with Syria, also under the Ba’athist leadership, that would lead to union between the two countries. Syrian President Hafez al-Assad would become deputy leader in a union, and this would drive Saddam Hussein to darkness. Saddam Hussein acted to secure his grip on power forcing the ill al-Bakr to resign as President in Iraq on July 16^th, 1979 and formally assumed the presidency. As President, Saddam Hussein upheld power during the Iraq-Iran war in 1980 through 1988, and throughout the Persian Gulf war of 1991. During these clashes, Saddam Hussein concealed several movements, particularly Shi’a and Kurdish actions seeking to conquer the government or gain independence. Some Arabs acclaimed him for his aggressive attitude against foreign intervention and for his support in Palestinians, other Arab and Western leaders belittled as the force behind both a deadly attack in northern Iraq in 1988, and two years later, invasion in Kuwait to the south. The end of the war with Iran served to deepen the tensions between Iraq and Kuwait. Saddam Hussein urged Kuwait to forgive the Iraqi debt accumulated in the war, some $30 billion, but Kuwait refused. Saddam Hussein pushed oil-exporting countries to raise oil prices by cutting back production, Kuwait refused. The United States provided assistance to Saddam Hussein in the war with Iran, but with Iraq’s forced ownership of the oil-rich Kuwait in August 1990, the United States led the United Nations coalition that drove Iraq’s troops from Kuwait in February 1991. The invasion immediately triggered fears that the world’s price of oil, and therefore control of the world’s economy, was at stake. By 2003, President George W. Bush had convinced the public that Saddam Hussein remained adequately applicable and dangerous to be overthrown. The national political equation changed in the United States after the September 11^th, 2001 attacks. In his January 2002 state of the union address to Congress, President George W. Bush spoke on “an axis of evil” consisting of Iran, North Korea, and Iraq. Bush claimed “The Iraqi government has schemed to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. Iraq continues to show off its antagonism toward America and support terror. “ Saddam Hussein maintained that he incorrectly led the world to consider Iraq possessed nuclear weapons in order to appear strong against Iran. The Iraqi administration and military distorted within three weeks of the commencement of the United States-led 2003 attack on Iraq on March 20^th. The United States made at least two efforts to destroy Saddam Hussein with air strikes, but botched to hit their target, killing civilians instead. By the beginning of April, the United States-led forces taken much of Iraq. Saddam Hussein was last scene in a video which alleged to show him in the Baghdad suburbs surrounded by supporters. When Baghdad fell to United States-led forces on April 9^th, Saddam Hussein was nowhere to be found. In April, 2003, Saddam Hussein’s location remained in question within weeks following the fall of Baghdad and the termination of the major fighting of the war. A variety of sightings of Saddam Hussein were accounted in the weeks following the war but none was genuine. Saddam Hussein was placed at the top of the United States list as “America’s most wanted Iraqi.” On December 14^th, 2003, United States Administrator in Iraq L. Paul Bremer publicized that Saddam Hussein had been captured in ad-Dawr near Tikrit. Following his capture by United States forces, Saddam Hussein was transported to the United States base near Tikrit, and later to be taken to a United States base near Baghdad. On June 30^th, 2004, Saddam Hussein, along with 11 other Ba’athist leaders, were handed over legally to the interim Iraqi administration to stand trial for offenses against humanity and other crimes. A few weeks later, Saddam Hussein was charged by the Iraqi Special Tribunal with crimes committed against residents in Dujail in 1982, following a failed elimination attempt against him. Precise crimes incorporated the killings of 148 people, torment of women and children and the illegal arrest of 399 others. On November 5^th, 2006, Saddam Hussein was found guilty of misdeeds against civilization and sentenced to death by hanging, which occurred on December 30^th, 2006.

Knowingly, this is a long blog, but I want to keep people informed on the history of each of these dictators. It goes to show you that these dictators or anyone who does wrong doing always pays the price in the end, whether it be sickness, suicide, or execution. These dictators were meant to be leaders to show us people living in a democracy that there is evil people in this world, as well as ignorant people. Communism, whether or not these leaders see it or not, is nothing to joke about. Innocent people have lost their lives or have been violated in some way. We should live in a world full of love and not hate, and I believe that is part of what communism is. I also feel that dictators are not good examples of role models in today’s society, especially these three dictators.

(Information found on Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Saddam Hussein can be found at http://www.wikipedia.com)