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Ponietz

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3. And Google says...

Reply to multigraincracker (Original post)

Sun Feb 2, 2025, 01:34 PM

Feb 2

The article lists Stalin, Mao, Franco, Baby Doc, Pinochet, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and Idi Amin all dying in comfort of natural causes

https://www.realclearhistory.com/2019/12/20/how_dictators_die_211577.html

Live by the sword, die by the sword? For brutal dictators, the adage is more often than not completely false.

In fact, dictators and warlords are more likely to die of old age or disease than at the hands of an enraged populace or sneaky assassin, according to an analysis by Matthew White, author of "The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities" (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011). White's look back at history found that 60 percent of oppressive warmongering types l

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Did any ruthless dictator have a peaceful ending? [View all] multigraincracker Feb 2 OP

Franco of Spain? nt delisen Feb 2 #1

Thank you. multigraincracker Feb 2 #2

And Google says... Ponietz Feb 2 #3

Depends on your definition of peaceful DetroitLegalBeagle Feb 2 #4

I can think of many whose lives ended living in luxury in other countries rurallib Feb 2 #5

If not dweller Feb 2 #6

Stalin died of natural causes. /nt bucolic_frolic Feb 2 #7

Monarchies have lasted for ages. unblock Feb 2 #8

General Augusto Pinochet - Chile OutNow Feb 2 #9

Look back far enough and we've had our hand multigraincracker Feb 2 #10