This thread has an appalling lack of Ian Smith. All of his old enemies who weren't part of Mugabe's club eventually acknowledged that he was the better leader for the country and respected him, and his predictions about the future that would result from Britain's rushed transfer to black majority rule were prophetic.
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Nguyen Ngoc Loan,
as I already said on the historical images thread.
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The only thing Jozef Pilsudski did wrong was die too soon. Then again, he's fairly popular in Poland, so I'm not sure how controversial he really is. He is the kind of guy I could see American lefties shrieking fascist over if any of them actually knew who he was. I can't say he would have kept Poland out of the grip of the Soviets and Nazis, but if anyone could have, it would have been Pilsudski. If he was there after the war he might have managed to prevent the hammer and sickle fucking the allies gave the Poles at the treaty table too.
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Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. The end of the Estado Novo was also instrumental in the fall of Rhodesia, so this ties back into Ian Smith.
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Chiang Kai-Shek was let down by his subordinates, but he refused to quit and is the only reason Taiwan didn't get cultural revolution'd (which would have killed far more people than the white terror did) and is a booming first world country instead of the CPC's backwater bitch today. Something they should consider when protesters there want to tear down his monuments.
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Lon Nol once said with tears in his eyes that he failed the Cambodian people. Like a true leader, he took all responsibility for the fall of the Khmer Republic on himself. But Lon Nol was failed by a prince who cowered before the North Vietnamese, a US ally that used his country as a disposable pawn in the Vietnam war to their detriment, corrupt generals, and his own health (he suffered a stroke after his first year in charge, leaving him without the faculties to properly lead the country during most of the civil war). His initial reasoning for overthrowing Sihanouk was sound. If it weren't for that stroke and Nixon's yanking of troops in favor of carpet bombing the countryside indiscriminately in a truly exceptional combination of voter pandering and
an attempt to convince the North Vietnamese that he was a dangerous lunatic, things might have turned out differently. Phnom Penh was a booming, rapidly modernizing place under the government he helped put in place right up until it fell.
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Chad Vlad the Impaler. Puts Muslim invaders up on pointy sticks and doesn't afraid of anything. It's amazing how vilified he was (outside of Romania, where he's rightly recognized as a hero) for not bullshitting around with a numerically superior group of invaders who intended to force everyone to convert and assimilate or become second class citizens who would have their firstborn sons taken, enslaved, and brainwashed into being shock troopers for the invaders.
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