AHC: A Female Dictator
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As mentioned already South Asia has the best potential, and you'd be hard-pressed to honestly state that Indira Gandhi wasn't a dictator for a bit. If she went with Sanjay's idea of keeping the Emergency for twenty years, it would've been more obvious.
Her too. There was a Romanian joke about how Ceaușescu furthered the revolution by transitioning from Stalin's socialism in one country to socialism in one family.
Checks the URL bar on the top... confirms it includes "history"... double checks... yep, still says history... considers writing a very short history lesson for the uninformed... just sighs...Bonus points if she is not Eva Peron.
Really, the only possible (plausible) female that I think could get a hold of power on the scale of male dictators is Jiang Qing. Just imagine if she managed to hold onto power with the other members of the Gang of Four before offing them all one-by-one; Mao's China would be far preferable to his wife's I would say.
There were no women in the Soviet Politburo until Yekaterina Furtseva in 1957-61. None of the prominent women Bolsheviks, like Alexandra Kollontai, had any real prospect of gaining power; Kollontai helped lead the "Workers Opposition" but it was easily marginalized by Lenin. If the Left Opposition had been able to come to power (very unlikely) Lenin's widow Krupskaya would have been a valuable symbolic figure for them but there is no way she could have been ruler.
I was thinking that the Kims might provide us with an answer. Oh those wacky Norks... Anyone else have any ideas in this direction?
Not really a dictator as extremely polarized. She'd have to try and keep herself in power illegally or something to qualify.
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