Dictator

Dictator · 1878 – 1953

Joseph Stalin was the Soviet dictator who industrialized the USSR, led it to victory in World War II, and built a vast empire in Eastern Europe — but also presided over a totalitarian state that killed millions through purges, gulags, and engineered famine.

• Soviet dictator
• World War II Eastern Front

Dictator · 1889 – 1945

Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, whose ideology of racial supremacy and aggressive expansionism plunged the world into World War II and caused the Holocaust — the genocide of six million Jews and millions of others.

• Nazi Germany
• World War II

Dictator · 1883 – 1945

Benito Mussolini was the Italian fascist dictator who founded fascism as a political movement, ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943, allied with Adolf Hitler in the Axis, and was killed by partisans in 1945 — the inventor of a totalitarian ideology that inspired and shaped the 20th century's darkest political movements.

• Founding fascism
• March on Rome