Pictorial Essays \ Leaders in Uniform \ Old Dictators
 
   
 


Here are some more familar faces. The dictators from the Cold War-era and World War 2, when dictatorships were common, and military uniforms even more so.

Mexican President Diaz
(1884-1911)
Italian Prime Minister Mussolini
(1922-1943)
Japanese Prime Minister Tojo
(1941-1944)
Argentine President Peron
(1946-1955)
Dominican Republic President Trujillo (1930-1961)
Nicuraguan President Anastasio Somoza
(1967-1972)
Spanish Dictator Franco
(1936-1976)
Yugoslov President Tito
(1937-1980)
Cuban President Batista
(1933-1940, 1952-1959)
Soviet Premier Lenoid Brezhnev
(1964-1983)
Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev (1953-1964)
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin
(1922-1953)
President Kai-Shek of China / Taiwan (1948-1975
South Vietnamese President Theiu (1967-1975)
President Marcos of the Phillipines (1965-1986)
Chile President Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990)
Paraguay President
Alfredo Stroessner
(1954-1989)
South Korean President Park Chung Hee (1962-1979)
Panama ruler Manuel Noriega
(1983-1989)
Indonesian President Sukarno
(1945-1967)
Nicuraguan President Ortega
(1985-1990)
Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski
(1985-1990)
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari
(1983-1985)
Pakistani President
Muhammad Zia
(1978-1988)
Central African President Bokassa
(1966-1979)
Ugandan President Idi Amin
(1971-1979)
Zaire President
Mobutu Sese Seko
(1965-1997)
Sudan President Jaafar Numeiri
(1971-1985)
Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara
(1983-1987)
Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein
(1979-2003)
Haitian President Henri Namphy
(1986-1988)
Nigerian President
Ibrahim Babangida
(1985-1993)
Liberian President
Charles Taylor
(1997-2003)
 
   
   
   
   


 
   
 
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