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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I have a stamp with Hitler too - though I have zero interest in them.
As far as I know Hitler nerver appeared on any official coin or note. There are unofficial things floating around though - no doubt made after 1945.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Quick info on Romanian dictators:
None of the 2 communist ones (Gheorghe-Gheorghiu Dej and Nicolae CeauÅŸescu) ever appeared on banknotes.
The right-wing dictator during World War Two, marshal Ion Antonescu, never has either.
However, King Carol II, after a coup d'état in 1937 became an authoritarian ruler (somewhat similar to a dictator). And he did issue banknotes of himself (500 lei 1936-1937 and 1000 lei 1934). They are though quite rare and relatively expensive.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Guinea Franc before 1971, had Ahmed Sékou Touré, Central African Empire with Jean-Bédel Bokassa and other CFA Franc issue like Gabon, Vietnam with Ho Chi Min, The Gambia, Ghana, Katanga, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia. All these countries ahad a dictator on their banknotes at some point in time. But none have dictators on current banknotes.
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United States
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Are you interested in only banknotes or coins as well? I have a "despot collection." Some of the "dictators" never appeared on notes but did appear on coins. Franco, "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Marcos, Syngman Rhee, Stalin, and some of South Africa's Apartheid rules all appeared on coins but not notes.
Other leaders you can find on notes are:
Mao Zedong - China
Sun Yat Sen - China
Chiang Kai Chek - Taiwan
Ho Chi Minh - Vietnam
Kemal Ataturk - Turkey
Joseph Tito - Yugoslavia
Vladimir Elich Lenin - U.S.S.R
Idi Amin - Uganda
Saparmurat Nyazov "Turkmenbashi" - Turkmenistan
Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier - Haiti
Kamuzu Hastings Banda - Malawai
Kenneth Kaunda - Zambia
Mabotu Sese Seku - Zaire (Congo)
Siaka Stevens - Sierra Leone
Joseph Saidu Momoh - Sierra Leone
Moammar Al-Gaddafi - Libya (1 and 50 dinar)
Getulio Vargas - Brazil
Georgi Dimitrov - Bulgaria
Khorloogiin Choibalsan - Mongolia
Aung San - Burma/Myanmar
Kim Il Sung - North Korea
Jean Bedel Bokassa - Central African Republic (CFA XAF notes)
Hafez Al Assad - Syria (largest denom.)
Ayatollah Khomeini - Iran
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Iran
Omar Bongo - Gabon (CFA XAF notes)
Gaafar Nimeiry - Sudan
King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud - Saudi Arabia
Suharto - Indonesia
Sukarno - Indonesia
And theres more out there of course, these are the ones I have.
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Pillar of the Community
Thailand
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As almingbg pointed out in an earlier post "your dictator might be my hero" - out of all the people mentioned (and I really don't know enough about the more obscure ones) the one I would defend as not being a dictator or despot would be Ho Chi Minh.
He was a 'popular' leader who did not not rule autocratically. A freedom fighter who wanted to unify his country and release the land from colonial rule. Okay so this meant, in effect, a 'civil war' but that does not make a particular leader a despot/dictator.
How many other modern leaders did the same but did not progress to rule their own people through repression, fear and ruthlessness? That kind of rule is the definition of a despot/dictator to me.
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 United States
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Everything I have watched or read on Fidel Castro has different view points on how he is perceived as a leader. Is he just one of the popular leaders of his country or is he simply a dictator? Also thanks for all the information guys!
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Israel
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Syria - former dictator , hafez al assad
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Turkey
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@riverbreak What makes you think Kemal Ataturk is a dictator!? With his reforms he ended Ottoman Empire and founded Turkish Republic. People offered him to be the new sultan but he was the one who organized the creation of the first congress despite the continuing occupation of colonial powers. He have started the war of independence with this sentence "Determination and decisions of our nation will bring the independence!" He called nation for the first time to the servants of sultans for 700 years ottoman period. And he insisted not the sultan not the army you crowds you ll decide your destiny! And in peacetime he supported multi party democracy. But who could be against his movement of Turkish modernism?! Of course supporters of sultanate! the parties closed because they tried to use democracy as an instrument to bring sultanate back. How can some people call him dictator I can't get it! He is one of the first politicians lobbied for women's suffrage. And he succeeded! After setting up a fully independent country he worked for peace in the world. He never bombed innocent people on the other side of the world to bring them democracy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustaf...Atat%C3%BCrkEdited by apeka
03/26/2012 04:03 am
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Pillar of the Community
Thailand
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Well said, apeka, and I totally agree.
I think there is a problem among a few western peoples (who don't know enough about the history of other countries) who tend to just lump together a lot of foreign leaders as dictators/despots.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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whereas I agree that I would not put Ataturk in the catagory of a dictator, he did fight on the losing side of WWI and thus may have some undue baggage because of that.
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United Kingdom
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I have a few with some people on, Iraq saddam, Libya ghaddafi, Uganda Idiamin, Zaire (forgot the persons name), Cuba Fidel castro and che guevara(not a dictator but someone famous I guess), a USSR note with a bust of Lenin I think lenin? Its not an actual picture of lenin though. China chairman Mao maybe?
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Pillar of the Community
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China chairman Mao maybe? Oh yes, definitely. Beleive it or not but he is reckoned to be the biggest mass murderer in history ever. More people (his own) died under his autocratic regime than even Hitler and Stalin combined managed to murder. |
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