Italian Dictators: Joseph Stalin

Dictators

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician. He was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922-1953. He became leader of the Soviet Union in 1924-1956 and then he introduced many government programs such as “Great Purge” which means killing every person who opposed him and his ideas, and about 700,000 people were killed because of this program. He was a famous russian dictator that led to the starvation of the 10 million people. He also Led the Soviet Union in WWII, because he was ruled by terror therefore millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign. His dictatorship transformed the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial and

He was an Italian dictator who created the Fascist Party in 1919. His goal was to create an Italian empire in North Africa. In 1912 and 1913, Italy had conquered Libya and right after two years Mussolini planed to send 70,000 Italian troops to Spain so that they could help Francisco Franco defeat the republican government in the Spanish Civil War. He also formed a single, national group, Fasci di Combattimento (Fascist Party), in 1919 to reconstruct Italy into a strong European power. In October 1922, he formed a coalition government and became the youngest prime minister of Italy. He had entire power in Italy as the country's prime

He became the fifth president of Iraq in July 16, 1979 and being Iraqi President he was responsible for many torturings, killings and of ordering the 1988 cleansing of Kurds in Northern Iraq. He expels 40,000 Shiite Muslims and orders the execution of Ayatollah Mohammed al-Bakr Sadr, an ally of Ayatollah Khomeini, in response to Khomeini's call for the overthrow of the mostly Sunni Muslim Baathist regime. He also orders to the destruction of Dujail, a village in northern Iraq to kill over 140 people in 1982. In March 16, 1988 he orders a poison gas attack on Kurds in Halabja in northern Iraq and as the result more than 5,000 people were