Who were some of the most benevolent rulers? Like legit nice guys

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He freed worker class first time in the entire history.

I did the best I could with what God gave me, user. I'm just sad I couldn't do better.

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>no one cared who I was before I got """genocided"""

>legit nice guys
Apparently him. Which is weird once you consider how much of a bloodthirsty cunt was his brother, and how ruthless was his father.

Power is inherently corrupt. There are no benevolent rulers as power itself is most benevolent to those who wield it at the expense of all others.

Louis IX

His presidency was mediorce at best, but as a human Grant had one of the biggest hearts.

why does he look like an old british man? where did all the modern italians come from?

Saddam

What are you on? He couldn't look more italian/mediterranean. Look at the fucking nose.

Tito as a good guy? Are you fucking kidding me?

Tito was good guy ,had big heart for Yugoslavs.

Leto II

Secher Nbiw

How many times have you posted this in dictatorship threads, I saw one yesterday or the day before.

To be completely honest.

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True that. Nice guy in a not nice place

lol no. He was a pretty petty asshole at times.

Just the second time ever.

But it's true.

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no, hes not

tito was totaly based

after 1948 he realy just went after stalinists and nationalists

if you survived till 1947 you were just left alone if you werent a idiot

after like 75 even goli otok was just for criminals

granted he did sort of fuck up in 71

and bleighburgh, that wast necesary, not that way.... and the foibe, and esoly, and the wolksdoichers.... but that was all before 48

but realy the biggest mistake he ever did was to die

but i guess that part couldnt be helped

>Freed
By installing a totalitarian regime that killed millions and people fled from.

Bleiburg was only a mistake as far as it's foiled to the Chetniks. Tito should have either pardoned and allowed mass defection of both Ustase and Chetniks, or he should have massacred both.

Thank God, I'm not.
Didn't he mass murder tens of thousands of civilians with his partisan company? I heard about that a lot.

but he did massacre chetniks

most of the chetnik movement got anihilated completely, both in the fighting and after the war, there was defection, more so than with the croats since serbia, as in the region where mostly nedichevci were based under german protectorate, only realy joined the resistance around 44, so logicaly lots of chetniks got trough, but the majority, especialy the mihajlovich side which fought alongside italians and germans in both bosna and croatia, got almost completely slaughtered, but so did most of the others, together with family, it was a total purge

i mean drazha has two comemorative graves, one in illinois one in australia, but no body to be found, its like a serbian urban mith, the body of generala draže

hundreds of thousands of people got killed and expelled betveen 45 and 48

but... you have to understand, a world war just ended, it wasnt like nothing happened

Hitler
Putin
Most of Ottoman rulers

Sejong

Seriously nice guy.

As far as I understand it, more Chetniks were spared/given the choice to defect late in the war because (1) Chetniks were fucking everywhere, in the wilderness all throughout Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia, and half of Croatia, and (2) they were only quasi-monarchists, and not the fascists that were the Partisans' most obdurate enemy and boogeyman, so they could be spared more easily without negative publicity. Reason 1 means that hunting down and killing all Chetniks is a goddamn hard job, while the Ustase were all focused in the northwest, pretty focused in one place.

Of course the Partisans killed both Ustase and Chetniks left and right earlier in the war, but when the end came and the war became a race for territory and axis equipment, speed was of the essence. The reprisals against high ranking and zealous Chetniks could wait until later.

well, it should be noted that it's inevitable than any leader at that echelon of power will inevitably do some pretty evil shit in terms of conventional morality
it simply comes with the territory, if you get that powerful, you will have unnecessary innocent blood on your hands in some capacity, that's just how it is

NO PEDRO
WHY NO PEDRO

Everyone says the same thing about Greeks and Turks, both of whom are known for dishonesty. Why don't you imbeciles understand that life in that region breeds dishonesty? Don't blame the Jews and Armenians just because they're intelligent enough to make their shit work while you shifty eyed little bastards can't move beyond ripping off tourists.

I don't think Ataturk supported that, though. Didn't he speak out against it?

I can never decide whether I favor Grant or Lee.

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>free beer at the pub for all
>more banter
>less EU buggery

Dude was a neurotic glory hound.

He was undoubtedly the single most important and powerful leader in all of modern history, and shaped the world as we know it.

I'd say he had the right to be a megalomaniac

Governor Albrecht von Rechenburg.

Pretty good meritocratic reforms.

Hubris got to him though. Still, more rational than Robespierre or Danton.

Maud'Dib may have unleashed the Arrakean Jihad and killed tens of billions, but he had to do it.

Without him we would have never had the 3,000 year reign of the God Emperor Worm King Leto II. Even the Duncan Idaho clones agree.

t. Fedyakin Warrior

I like this meme, can we keep it and pet it and call it George? Because I'm just starting Children of Dune now.

You should probably leave The internet until finishing at least God-Emperor.

Nah, I just follow /sffg/ on Veeky Forums and the few interesting threads on Veeky Forums. I saw Marcus Aurelius and thought someone might post my hero Sulla. I can definitely see how the tiniest distraction can get you to read twenty pages before saying "what the fuck has been happening".