Top Ten Weirdest Dictators

These Madmen Were/Are Certainly Weird And Odd, I've Done Tons Of Research And Watched A lot Of Videos To Get The Best Information I Could Find.
The Top Ten
1 Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan)

Dictator Of Turkmenistan From 1991-2006
Called Himself Turkmenbashi, Sent A Copy Of His Propaganda Book Into Space So Aliens Could Read It, Banned Beards, Banned Makeup, Believed That Chewing Bones Would Strengthen Your Teeth, Renamed EVERY Month Of The Year, Renamed EVERY Day Of The Week, Ordered An Ice Palace To Be Built In The Desert, And Brainwashed His Citizens To Treat Him Like A God

January is now known in the country as Turkmenbashi.
Bread was renamed after his mother.
He banned makeup because he couldn't tell men from women because of it, making him uncomfortable.
He wanted a zoo with penguins in the hottest and dryest part of central Asia.
He won the national prize in poetry several times, which was decided by himself.
He wrote a book which he insisted had to be read by everyone in the country before they could go to heaven.
His face is legally required to be on every clock and every device which has a clock on it in the country.
He wanted an ice palace because he thought that learning to ice sate was an essential requirement to living in Turkmenistan, known for its arid, extremely hot, long summers with frequent dust storms.
He banned public music because it distracted from him.
He banned all weddings and funerals, save for his own.
And it goes on.

2 Francisco Macias Nguema (Equatorial Guinea)

Dictator Of Equatorial Guinea From 1968-1979
Banned The Word Intellectual, Closed All Private Schools, Banned Shoes, Had Soilders Dressed As Santa Claus Execute Opponents, Banned Boats, Banned Fishing, Banned Libraries, Banned Newspapers, And Banned Churches.

3 Muammar al-Gaddafi (Libya) Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi, commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.

Dictator Of Libya From 1969-2011
He Wore Tons Of Unusual And Crazy Outfits Like (I'm NOT Joking) An Electric Wardrobe For Example As Well As Many Other Odd Things About Him.

Really weird supposedly he had a collection of thousands of soap.

The most favorite film si story of man cooperation by alliens this film every day show in libya T.V.

4 Francois Duvalier (Haiti)

Dictator Of Haiti From 1957-1971
Ordered The Death Of All Black Dogs, Kept One Of His Staff Member's Decapitated Head, As Well As Believing He Was Responsible For JFK's Assassination

5 Idi Amin (Uganda) Idi Amin Dada was a Ugandan politician and military officer. He was the President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin was born either in Koboko or Kampala to a Kakwa father and Lugbara mother. In 1946 he joined the King's African Rifles of the British Colonial Army.
6 Kim Jong-un (North Korea) Kim Jong-un (born 8 January 1983) is a North Korean politician who has been Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011 and the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012. He is a son of Kim Jong-il, who was North Korea's second supreme leader from 1994 to 2011, and Ko Yong-hui. He is a grandson of Kim Il-sung (who was the founder and first supreme leader of North Korea from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994) and the first leader of North Korea to have been born in the country after its founding in 1948.

North Korea isn't even a country it's a cult. Kim Jong-Un is the cult leader and a dictator I know.

Dictator Of North Korea Since 2011
Pretty Much All Of The Kim Dynasty Is Crazy, But Un Is The Craziest Of The Three.

7 Kim Jong-il (North Korea) Kim Jong-il (born Yuri Irsenovich Kim; 16 February 1941 - 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly referred to as North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led North Korea from the 1994 death of his father Kim Il-sung, the first Supreme Leader, until his own death in 2011, when he was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong-un. By the early 1980s Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership of the country and assumed important posts in the party and army organs.

Dictator Of North Korea From 1994-2011
Claimed He Invented The Hamburger, Claims He Hit 11 Hole In One The First Time He Played Golf, And Many Other Weird Facts About Him

8 Jean-Bédel Bokassa (Central African Republic/Central African Empire)
9 Kim Il-Sung (North Korea) Kim Il-sung was the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly referred to as North Korea, for 46 years, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to 1994. He was also the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea from 1949 to 1994. To this day, he is still seen as a leader in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, with many statues of him and his son, Kim Jong-Il.

Dictator Of North Korea From 1948-1994
Started The Nightmare Known As The Kim Dynasty, Brainwashed His Citizens To Treat Him Like A God, And His Citizens Believed He Didn't Go To The Bathroom

10 Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo)

Dictator Of Zaire From 1965-1997
Believed Himself To Be A Demigod, Forced The Evening News To Begin With A Scene With Him Descending From The Clouds, Claimed His Cane Took 8 People To Carry, Renamed The Country To Zaire, And Imprisoned People Who Didn't Have African Names

The Contenders
11 Emomali Rahmon (Tajikistan)

Banned Celebration Of Birthdays, Banned Beards, Banned YouTube in 2013 After A Video Of Him Dancing Was Posted.

12 Min Aung Hlaing (Myanmar)
13 Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equatorial Guinea)
14 Saddam Hussein (Iraq) Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region—which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to power in Iraq. ...read more.
15 Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (Turkmenistan)
16 Francisco Franco (Spain) Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939, after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War, until his death in 1975. This period in Spanish history is commonly known as Francoist Spain.
17 Pol Pot (Cambodia) Pol Pot, born Saloth Sar, was a Cambodian revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until 1997. From 1963 to 1981, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea.
18 Slobodan Milosevic (Serbia) Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician and the President of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000.
19 Isaias Afwerki (Eritrea)
20 Caligula (Roman Empire) Caligula, properly Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was Roman emperor in AD 37–41. Born Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, Caligula was a member of the house of rulers conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
21 Enver Hoxha (Albania) Enver Halil Hoxha was an Albanian communist politician who served as the head of state of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania.

Dictator Of Albania From 1944-1985
Was COMPLETELY Obsessed With Stalin, Banned Beards, And Opened Camps To Liquidate People With Facial Hair.

22 Than Shwe (Myanmar)
23 Mswati III (Eswatini)
24 Nero (Roman Empire) Nero was the last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius and became Claudius' heir and successor. Like Claudius, Nero became emperor with the consent of the Praetorian Guard.
25 Vladimir Putin (Russia) Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia, a position he has filled since 2012, and previously from 2000 until 2008. He was also the prime minister from 1999 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2012.


Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant... read more
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