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Originally Posted by Niall
I don't know why, but I tend to find the old communist dictators and their time in power very interesting.
Mao and Stalin are probably my favourites even though they're both deeply awful people. I just find that cult of personality aspect and the mass hysteria it caused in the people bizarre. That and the fact that they both transformed backwards, agrarian economies into industrial powerhouses. I quite like Deng Xiaoping too. The way he modernised China from an old Stalinist state into the China of today is a pretty amazing.
Also, speaking of personality cults, Kim-Il-Sung and his still ongoing glorification in North Korea is something I find to be incredibly odd, yet still intriguing.
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As do I. Though I prefer Lenin over Stalin in terms of historical interest