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Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and dictator who led Italy as Il Duce from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. He founded the fascist movement in 1919, with the creation of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, which became the National Fascist Party (PNF) in 1921. Mussolini was appointed Prime Minister of Italy after the March on Rome in 1922, establishing a totalitarian dictatorship. He oversaw Italy's participation in World War II as a prominent member of the Axis Powers, and was summarily executed near the end of the war in 1945.
Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Émery Lumumba was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the First Congolese Republic from June until September 1960, following the May 1960 election. Lumumba was the leader of the Congolese National Movement (MNC) from 1958 until his assassination in 1961. Ideologically an African nationalist and pan-Africanist, he played a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a colony of Belgium into an independent republic.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1928–1979)
Hideki Tojo
Japanese general and politician (1884–1948)
Imre Nagy
Hungarian politician (1896-1958)
Ion Antonescu
prime minister of Romania during World War II, executed for war crimes (1882–1946)
Adnan Menderes
Turkish statesperson (1899–1961)
Pierre Laval
French politician (1883–1945)
Béla Kun
Hungarian Communist revolutionary and politician, the de facto leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs
Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
Persian physician and historian (1247-1318)
Alexei Rykov
Premier of Russia and the Soviet Union (1881-1938)
Jozef Tiso
Slovak politician, priest and president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945
Abd al-Karim Qasim
Iraqi Army brigadier, nationalist and first prime minister of Iraq after the fall of the monarchy
Ferenc Szálasi
Hungarian fascist politician, executed for war crimes (1897-1946)
Lajos Batthyány
Hungarian politician (1807–1849)
Kōki Hirota
Japanese prime minister, diplomat, and war criminal (1878-1948)
Amir-Abbas Hoveyda
Iranian politician (1919-1979)
Döme Sztójay
Hungarian-Serb politician executed for war crimes (1883-1946)
Maurice Bishop
Revolutionary and Grenada 's second Prime Minister (1979-1983)
Nuri as-Said
Iraqi politician (1888–1958)
Vojtech Tuka
Slovak minister of foreign affairs of the Slovakia, prime minister of the Slovakia and war criminal (1880-1946)
Bogdan Filov
Bulgarian politician and archaeologist (1883-1945)
László Bárdossy
Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary from April 1941 to March 1942.
Nicholas Golitsyn
Russian noble (1850-1925)
Husni al-Za'im
Syrian military officer and politician (1897–1949)
Béla Imrédy
Hungarian Prime Minister (1891-1946)
Kazimierz Bartel
Polish mathematician and politician (1882-1941)
Peljidiin Genden
Mongolian politician (1892-1937)
Dimitrios Gounaris
Greek politician
Pranas Dovydaitis
Lithuanian politician (1886-1942)
Alois Eliáš
Czechoslovak general and politician (1890-1942)
Petros Protopapadakis
Greek politician (1854–1922)
Agdanbuugyn Amar
former president of Mongolia (1886-1941)
Jüri Jaakson
Estonian politician (1870–1942)
Amir Sjarifuddin
Prime Minister of Indonesia (1907-1948)
Hugo Celmiņš
Latvian politician (1877-1941)
Dobry Bozhilov
Bulgarian politician (1884-1945)
Peter Gabrovski
Bulgarian politician (1898-1945)
Ivan Bagryanov
Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1891-1945)
Nikolaos Stratos
Greek politician (1872-1922)
Long Boret
Cambodian politician (1933–1975)
Maliq Bushati
Albanian politician (1880-1946)
Mahmud Gawan
Iranian poet
Marģers Skujenieks
Prime Minister of Latvia (1886–1941)
Aklilu Habte-Wold
Ethiopian Prime Minister (1912-1974)
Mohammad Musa Shafiq
Afghan prime minister (1932-1978)
Évariste Kimba
Congolese politician (1926-1966)
Dogsomyn Bodoo
Prime Minister of Mongolia
Diarra Traoré
Guinean soldier and politician (1935-1985)
Muhsin al-Barazi
Syrian politician
Vytautas Petrulis
Lithuanian politician (1890-1942)
Mekonnen Endalkachew
politician (1928-1974)
Dambyn Chagdarjav
Mongolian revolutionary figure
Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi
Afghan politician (1921-1979)
Ruzzik ibn Tala'i
Fatimid vizier from 1161 to 1163
Manzushir Khutagt Sambadondogiin Tserendorj
former prime minister of Mongolia (1872–1937)
Ahmad Salim uld Sidi
Mauritanian politician