re: #78 erik_t

Quoting eight pictures. Of this list, by my count, at least five of the eight overthrew a vaguely stable and non-evil government with an armed popular uprising and installed a horrific murderous dictatorship with their, oh I dunno, vaguely organized militia.

The irony is legitimately staggering.

Stalin succeeded Lenin to power, and Kim Jong-Il succeeded his father. Chiang Kai-Shek’s Kumintang government had been badly destabilized by the Japanese invasion of China (and the KMT had no small amount of evil in it), Castro overthrew Bastista (who was fairly evil, just not horrifically so) and Hitler’s becoming chancellor in Germany was the result of political maneuvering, not a popular uprising. Only in the cases of Idi Amin, Qaddafi, and Pol Pot was a really non-evil regime overthrown and only in the first two cases was it stable (the Lon Nol government was under intense Communist pressure right from the start).