Parade Magazine's Worst Leaders [January 1983]

Historical Dictators

Missing: * Babrak Karmal (23) * Jose Lopez Portillo (28) * Sandinista directorate (33) * Hua Kuo-feng (35) * Bolivian Junta (41) * Mathieu Kerekou (45) * Jerry Rawlings (46)

This Category is Ranked. Sort by Ranking Based on Votes by clicking on Vote Ranking. Sort by the Collection's Ranking by clicking on List Ranking.

Vote RankingList Ranking  

28

1

Iran

Location

70.45% (236 of 335 votes)

39

1

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

World Leader

52.65% (149 of 283 votes)

38

2

Muammar Gaddafi

World Leader

55.32% (130 of 235 votes)

58

2

Libya

Location

5.71% (2 of 35 votes)

14

3

Mobutu Sese Seko

World Leader

100% (5 of 5 votes)

55

3

Congo, Democratic Republic of (Zaire)

Location

14.29% (1 of 7 votes)

10

4

Haiti

Location

100% (1 of 1 votes)

15

4

Jean-Claude Duvalier

World Leader

100% (2 of 2 votes)

26

5

Menachem Begin

World Leader

77.78% (28 of 36 votes)

29

5

Israel

Location

61.75% (1708 of 2766 votes)

22

6

Alfredo Stroessner

World Leader

100% (1 of 1 votes)

62

6

Paraguay

Location

0% (0 of 1 votes)

21

7

Augusto Pinochet

World Leader

100% (9 of 9 votes)

61

7

Chile

Location

0% (0 of 1 votes)

31

8

Ferdinand Marcos

World Leader

59.72% (86 of 144 votes)

36

8

Philippines

Location

59.12% (94 of 159 votes)

12

9

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Location

100% (11 of 11 votes)

54

9

Leonid Brezhnev

World Leader

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

56

10

Argentina

Location

13.04% (3 of 23 votes)

72

10

Reynaldo Bignone

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

4

11

P.W. Botha

World Leader

100% (1 of 1 votes)

49

11

South Africa

Location

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

33

12

United States

Location

59.55% (374 of 628 votes)

43

12

Ronald Reagan

U.S. President

49.31% (250 of 507 votes)

44

13

Pol Pot

World Leader

46.84% (37 of 79 votes)

75

13

Cambodia

Location

0% (0 of 0 votes)

7

14

North Korea

Location

100% (8 of 8 votes)

42

14

Kim Il Sung

World Leader

50.0% (2 of 4 votes)

1

15

Roberto D'Aubuisson

Politician

100% (4 of 4 votes)

74

15

El Salvador

Location

0% (0 of 1 votes)

47

16

Fidel Castro

World Leader

37.93% (88 of 232 votes)

50

16

Cuba

Location

32.41% (35 of 108 votes)

24

17

India

Location

95.65% (22 of 23 votes)

27

17

Indira Gandhi

World Leader

70.59% (12 of 17 votes)

11

18

Guatemala

Location

100% (1 of 1 votes)

89

18

Efrain Rios Montt

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

18

19

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

World Leader

100% (1 of 1 votes)

48

19

Pakistan

Location

34.41% (107 of 311 votes)

76

20

Albania

Location

0% (0 of 1 votes)

85

20

Enver Hoxha

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

30

21

Saddam Hussein

World Leader

60.06% (194 of 323 votes)

35

21

Iraq

Location

59.31% (669 of 1128 votes)

45

22

Margaret Thatcher

World Leader

46.81% (44 of 94 votes)

51

22

United Kingdom

Location

32.26% (20 of 62 votes)

9

23

Afghanistan

Location

100% (1 of 1 votes)

3

24

Forbes Burnham

World Leader

100% (2 of 2 votes)

80

24

Guyana

Location

0% (0 of 1 votes)

69

25

Ahmed Sekou Toure

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

82

25

Guinea

Location

0% (0 of 1 votes)

41

26

Syria

Location

50.72% (35 of 69 votes)

84

26

Hafez Al-Assad

World Leader

0% (0 of 1 votes)

59

27

Poland

Location

0% (0 of 0 votes)

67

27

Wojciech Jaruzelski

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

32

28

Mexico

Location

59.60% (180 of 302 votes)

63

29

Tanzania

Location

0% (0 of 1 votes)

71

29

Julius Kambarage Nyerere

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

13

30

Suharto

World Leader

100% (1 of 1 votes)

46

30

Indonesia

Location

40.0% (2 of 5 votes)

20

31

Robert Mugabe

World Leader

100% (3 of 3 votes)

78

31

Zimbabwe

Location

0% (0 of 0 votes)

52

32

Germany

Location

32.10% (26 of 81 votes)

83

32

Helmut Schmidt

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

23

33

Sandinista National Liberation Front

Organization

100% (1 of 1 votes)

81

33

Nicaragua

Location

0% (0 of 0 votes)

8

34

Vietnam

Location

100% (5 of 5 votes)

70

34

Le Duan

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

37

35

China

Location

57.93% (263 of 454 votes)

64

36

Uganda

Location

0% (0 of 0 votes)

86

36

Milton Obote

World Leader

0% (0 of 1 votes)

34

37

Vatican City (Holy See)

Location

59.32% (70 of 118 votes)

53

37

Pope John Paul II

Religious Figure

26.32% (10 of 38 votes)

65

38

Zambia

Location

0% (0 of 0 votes)

66

38

Kenneth Kaunda

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

17

39

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

World Leader

100% (1 of 1 votes)

73

39

Angola

Location

0% (0 of 0 votes)

19

40

King Fahd

Monarch

100% (1 of 1 votes)

40

40

Saudi Arabia

Location

50.77% (33 of 65 votes)

60

41

Bolivia

Location

0% (0 of 0 votes)

57

42

Spain

Location

7.69% (3 of 39 votes)

88

42

King Juan Carlos of Spain

Monarch

0% (0 of 0 votes)

16

43

Mengistu Haile Mariam

World Leader

100% (3 of 3 votes)

25

43

Ethiopia

Location

83.33% (5 of 6 votes)

5

44

Chad

Location

100% (1 of 1 votes)

68

44

Hissene Habre

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

79

45

Benin

Location

0% (0 of 1 votes)

2

46

Jerry Rawlings

World Leader

100% (1 of 1 votes)

77

46

Ghana

Location

0% (0 of 0 votes)

6

47

Liberia

Location

100% (2 of 2 votes)

87

47

Samuel Kanyon Doe

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)