Cold War Survivor: Soviet &"sister" party leaders: IMRE NAGY is the SURVIVOR !

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Stalin

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Nicaragua was never communist.

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Stalin

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There are only two leaders on this list that could be considered overall positive, and maybe another two or three that could be considered "acceptable" (under the circumstances of the time) making most of it rather uninteresting like this round.

I also don't understand why Lenin wasn't included.

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Ceausescu

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Ceausescu

Strange that it only takes three to be knocked off before all the notably odious leaders are gone.

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Zhivkov

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Zhivkov.

I'm surprised GMantis doesn't seem to have a personal grudge against him.

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Vulko Chervenkov

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Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej

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Gustav Husak. Mostly for how he was installed.

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Brezhnev

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Leonid Brezhnev.

Did a lot worse than some minor figure.

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Brezhnev

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Erich Honecker

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Erich Honecker

I love that in June of 1989 he said the Berlin Wall would stand for at least a hundred more years.

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Krenz was more pathetic than insidious, same with Alia. Malenkov, despite being from Stalin's inner circle, was the second most tolerable Sovet leader. So between Husak and Gomulka I'll go with Husak due to how he took office.

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Gomulka

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Khrushchev

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Wilhelm Pieck

He truly was evil. Krenz may have been as well, but he was more pathetic than evil.

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Gustav Husak

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Kadar wasn't (relatively) bad. He was probably the best leader Hungary could've had during that time. Hungary had the most mild regime of the Eastern Bloc, no large secret police force, and was probably more free than some NATO and Western European countries (Spain, Portugal under the mid-70s and Greece under the military regime.)

I vote Khrushchev again.

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Khrushchev