Dictatorship - a form of government in which all the fullness of state power belongs to only one political position - the ruler (dictator), the ruling party, the ruling group of people, the ruling alliance and the ruling social class. Operation of a dictatorial regime is accompanied by radical or repressive measures against political opponents and the cruel suppression or elimination of those rights and freedoms of citizens, who in any way contrary to the position of the regime....
1.Enver Pasha
Turkey
The death toll from 1.1 to 2.5 million
Years in power: 5 (1913-1918)
The most heinous crime: genocide of Armenians
Type of treatment: military
Cause of death: killed in action (in the opinion of the majority)
North Korea
The death toll: 1.6 million
Years in power: 46 (1948-1994)
The most heinous crime: the war in Korea
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: heart attack
Northern Vietnam
The death toll: 1.7 million
Years in power: 24 (1945-1969)
The most heinous crime: the Vietnam War
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: heart failure
Cambodia
The death toll from 1.7 to 2.4 million people
Years in power: 4 (1975-1979)
The most heinous crime: genocide in Cambodia
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: officially unknown
Iraq
The number of deaths: 2 million
Years in power: 34 (1969-2003)
The most heinous crime: genocide of Kurds
Regime type: authoritarian
Cause of death: death by hanging
Pakistan
The death toll from 2 to 12 million people
Years in power: 2 (1969-1971)
The most heinous crime: genocide in Bangladesh
Type of treatment: military
Cause of death: unknown
Japan
The number of dead: 4 million
Years in power: 3 (1941-1944)
The most heinous crime: the killing of civilians during World War II
Type of treatment: military
Cause of death: death by hanging
USSR
The number of dead: 4 million
Years in power: 7 (1917-1924)
The most heinous crime: Civil War in Russia
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: cerebral hemorrhage
Japan
The death toll: 6 million
Years in power: 62 (1926-1989)
The most terrible crimes: the massacre in Nanjing
Type of regime: monarchy
Cause of death: cancer
China
The death toll: 10 million
Years in power: 18 (1928-1949)
The most heinous crime: Incident 228 (Massacre in Taiwan in 1947)
Type of treatment: military
Cause of death: kidney failure
Germany
The death toll from 17 to 20 million people
Years in power: 11 (1934-1945)
The most heinous crime: the Holocaust
Type of regime: fascist
Cause of death: suicide
USSR
The death toll from 40 to 62 million people
Years in power: 12 (1941-1953)
The most heinous crime: the Gulag
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: heart attack
China
The death toll from 45 to 75 million
Years in power: 34 (1943-1976)
The most heinous crime: the great famine in China
Cause of death: heart attack
