Most Insane Dictator Debate Thread - Unlimited Power And Its Consequences

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Executing opponents with soldiers dressed as Santa Claus, believing yourself to be the next Napoleon and self-deification are all on the table here.
 
Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan is a hidden gem. He renamed months and days after things from his autobiography, which was mandatory for everyone to read and know. He closed all of the libraries and hospitals outside of the capital, the idea being that if anyone needed to read or get medical treatment they could just make the trip to the capital. He built statues of his autobiography, made a rap video promoting tourism to the country, banned lip-synching at concerts, made a national holiday for melons, and banned smoking in public to help him quit the habit himself.
 
Kiwi Yuga said:
Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan is a hidden gem. He renamed months and days after things from his autobiography, which was mandatory for everyone to read and know. He closed all of the libraries and hospitals outside of the capital, the idea being that if anyone needed to read or get medical treatment they could just make the trip to the capital. He built statues of his autobiography, made a rap video promoting tourism to the country, banned lip-synching at concerts, made a national holiday for melons, and banned smoking in public to help him quit the habit himself.
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wasn't he like a dentist before becoming dictator
 
Kiwi Yuga said:
Saparmurat Niyazov
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Came here to say this. There's just so much insane bullshit. While there's others which maybe have one or two things which come close to or surpass the insanity of the stuff Niyazov did, the sustained, rapid fire insanity is unmatched. Some additional stuff he did includes banning dogs (because of their smell, of course.), banning gold teeth, writing "Ruhnama," (literally translated as "Book of the Soul") which is like a weird propaganda/spiritual/metaphysical/philosophical thesis on Turkmenistan and the Turkmen people. The book was required reading. Government employment exams were based on knowledge of the book instead of competency, state driving tests were replaced with exams based on the book, and it was elevated to the level of the Bible and Quran, and, legally, reading it three times guaranteed you entry to heaven. When I say "legally," I mean this wasn't a theological stance, the law stated that if you read it thrice, you get guaranteed entry. He banned car radios, video games, long hair on men. He also spent a bunch of money on insane shit, like a massive gold plated statue of himself which rotated to always face the sun, and he tried to build a penguin zoo in the desert, even floating the idea of an ice palace. His face was also on everything, just everywhere, on currency, clicks, watches, murals, paintings, liquor bottles, condiment and salt packets, just anywhere he could slap it. I really love his insanity. It would be funnier if it didn't impact so many people negatively, but he really is just top tier insane. I wish we got a good movie about him in the West.

Honorable mentions include Idi Amin, who gave himself the formal title of "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular," declared himself the "rightful king of Scotland," and offered to be Queen Elizabeth II's chief advisor and mediate UK-Irish disputes. He sent weird letters to Nixon where he praised Hitler, has a moat filled with crocodiles which he fed his enemies to, and kept severed heads in a fridge which he screamed at when he got angry. Luckily we did get a decent movie out of this guy, "The Last King of Scotland."

Last is probably Nguema, probably most famous for banning the word "intellectual" and outlawing glasses because they "made people look too smart." He also did bonkers shit like hold mass executions in stadiums with loudspeakers blasting "Those Were the Days" by Mary Hopkin.
 
For Latin America I'd go with Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. Pretty much this dude is a perfect representation of everything that is wrong with Haiti, he thought he was some reincarnation of some Voodoo Death Doctor who had a death squad that wore these masks and went around hacking people with machetes, and after he killed his main political rival he thought his rival was reincarnated as a black dog, so he had all of the black dogs killed. His son Baby Doc was pretty boring though really all that's notable is that unlike his dad he got ousted in a coup.

For Europe I'd go with Enver Hoxha, he pretty much made Albania the North Korea of Europe but instead of Nukes he built a shit ton of bunkers for some presumed joint NATO-USSR-Yugoslav-Chinese Invasion of the country that never happened, he took some random guy and made him get plastic surgery to look like him just so he could have a body double, and pretty much went full r/atheism on his country with him closing down all of the Churches and Mosques and had Priests sent to Jail and Executed.

For Asia I'd go with this more obscure Dictator, Ne Win of Burma, this dude was basically what happens when you have an actual supersticious leader in charge of your country, he basically bathed in Dolphin blood, would randomly change shit like money and what side people drove on out of the blue with no warning just because he thought it would make him live longer and make his dick large or some shit, and made every decision based on what some random shaman would say to him.

Finally for Africa there are a shit ton of dictators I would go for because they were basically all crazy as shit but my favorite one would be Charles Taylor of Liberia, this dude had the usual stuff like having Child Soldiers in his armies that was paid for by Blood Diamonds and shit but what really I find interesting about this dude is when he ran for President he ran on the slogan "He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him." because he was a warlord and he actually won on that Slogan.
 
Surprised Muammar Gaddafi hasn't been mentioned yet.

He had some crazy outfits and when he would travel anywhere, he would bring his bulletproof tent. He even pitched his tent in Trumps Bedminster property for some UN meetings.
Gaddafi was so paranoid that he even had a facial fat transfer preformed WITHOUT GENERAL ANESTHESIA because he was afraid someone would kill him in surgery.

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Myrtle the Turtle said:
Surprised Muammar Gaddafi hasn't been mentioned yet.

He had some crazy outfits and when he would travel anywhere, he would bring his bulletproof tent. He even pitched his tent in Trumps Bedminster property for some UN meetings.
Gaddafi was so paranoid that he even had a facial fat transfer preformed WITHOUT GENERAL ANESTHESIA because he was afraid someone would kill him in surgery.

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He had a bodyguard of pretty women that he forced to be chaste and was sexually obsessed with Condoleeza Rice, creeping on her at diplomatic functions, having a love song written for her and keeping a scrapbook of photos of her.
 
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