Phibunsongkram was a Thai fascist that had a strict pro-Thai policy.
Thailand had a huge Chinese population and he forced them to shut down Chinese schools and adopt Thai names.
As a result, Chinese Thais are one of the most assimilated Chinese groups. Most just consider themselfs Thai at this point.
A huge contrast to Malaysia where Chinese speak Chinese in Chinese communities.
So now all Chinese are assimilated into a degenerate group of ladyboys and tourist hookers?
Lets not mention that the Chinese ones are still easy to pick out and are better off. It's literally Brazil's shitty strategy.
Lee Kuan Yew
Inheriting a 720 km^2 island (which is a 23% increase compared to before due to land reclamation). The country was also rife with racial and religious tensions before internally and externally (the Konfrontasi was ongoing).
Lee Kuan Yew not only succeeded in guaranteeing the independence of a country that the world was expecting to collapse upon being literally kicked into independence (from Malaysia), but made it a country with the 5th highest human development index, the 3rd highest GDP per capita and one of the most advanced and stable economies in the world.
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The communist general who defeated France and America unironically deserves to be considered among history's greatest military leaders. I wouldn't call him a hero, but you have to respect the sort of commitment and perseverance it must have taken to pull something like that off.
Probably the most controversial AND most successful ruler in human history
>ywn get to play sim city IRL
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>Chinese assimilated unlike in Malaysia
>Chinese Thais still own 90% of the capital like in Malaysia
Augusto Pinochet
Francisco Franco
Fidel Castro
Andrew Jackson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vo Nguyen Giap. Yes, and let's not forget him trouncing the Chinese and then liberating Cambodia from Anarcho-Primitivists, after the long, bloody war with the U.S. That guy was the spawnpoint sniper of Asia.
Thank you based possibly sociopathic chinaman
He also lived to 102, only dying four years ago.
>Fidel Castro
Successfully reached power like many others. Survived being a commie right at America's doorstep I guess that's an achievement. And nothing else really.
>Franklin D. Roosevelt
What? Why?
His kingdom went to shit after his death.
The death toll needed to achieve that is not justified.
There was nothing good about stalinist USSR anyway.
Or any USSR. But Stalinist period is up there with the first Bolshevik one. Maybe even worse.
Indeed. he should have killed more fellow commies
Pinochet was an awful person, but there's no doubt that he's responsible for Chile being by far the best country in South America
>admits list fulfilled criteria of being both successful and controversial
>"but I'd better find a way to try to contradict it, still"
Why do people try to do this?
Went from being a rags wearing orphan, born to a once powerful tribe within a wasteland to being one of the most influential figures in human history.
Nobody can beat this.
Giap was good, but by the end of the Vietnam War he was getting sidelined badly by Le Duan's hardliner clique (same dudes who would tank the economy later on). Most of the late war offensives weren't under Giap's leadership. It was very intentional that he wasn't in command of the 1975 spring offensive and that Le Duan would take the Lion's share of the glory. Giap also didn't take command during the '79 invasion of Cambodia.
I respect the hell out of Giap's command ability and sheer will to win, but he was far from the only commander the PAVN had and there was a fuckton of inter-politicking going on within the VCP during this time.
genghis khan was orphaned at a young age and sold into slavery and did a similar thing
i guess his influence today isn't as widely seen today though
>and did a similar thing
It's creepily very similar. All Muhammad/Genghis did was unite their respective tribes. It's Subutai/Khalid that did the heavy lifting for their respective Khan/Caliph.
All things aside Big Mo seemed like a nicer guy, but compared to Genghis that's pretty easy.
The irony is that Chinese is more economically important than thai, and they no longer have a population of native speakers to call upon.
No, you're totally wrong. Khrushchev used the foundations built by Stalin to create an even more comfortable and influential society.
Things only went to shit because they gazed too far into the abyss of capitalism and became too dependent on the capitalist West to build socialism.
>Lets not mention that the Chinese ones are still easy to pick out and are better off. It's literally Brazil's shitty strategy.
It's not shitty to keep 99% of your culture and boost the IQ of your entrepreneurial class by 5 to 10 points
Kádár János of Hungary.
There is blood on his hands. But when he became party secretary of Hungary, he turned out to be an efficient and benevolent autocrat.
Influential to a backwater. Meet the man who conquered the world in 3 years.
This. Every single person I've met from Malaysia has been an rich ethnic Chinese.
Orphans change history. It's even encoded into muh Joseph Campbell monomyth.
>Chile
>Best Latin a.erican country
Not while Uruguay exists, my friend.
his uncle who adopted him was a rich tradesman
all sudaca countries are shitholes, Pinochet left massive social inequality
He also married a rich mommy gf in his youth, helping him join the local landed elite and have a platform from which he could gain followers
How is he controversial?
>He also married a rich mommy gf in his youth
With his own charisma...
>helping him join the local landed elite and have a platform from which he could gain followers
He barely had any followers. That's why he had to flee to Medina.
>Thailand successfully assimilated Chinese groups.
Lolno?
You could easily spot Thai Chinese by looking at rich Thais holding Chink new year parties.
That doesn't account Thailand's cucked status as the Mainland's fencesitter puppet in SEA and the recent migrations of Chinese citizens in Thailand to do business.
>teleports behind your protectorate
Nothin personal Cromwell
Roosevelt doesn't really have any impressive accomplishments, though
>income inequality being meaningful in any way
>A huge contrast to Malaysia where Chinese speak Chinese in Chinese communities.
Fun fact, the Chinese language schools in Malaysia are considered to be far superior in quality to the Malay language schools, even Malay application to the Chinese schools is rising and rising every year. The Chinese community also support their schools with donations and keep them equipped and clean. Maybe letting the Chinese do their thing isn't all that bad?
Antonio Salazar, the Portuguese dictator
People don't like how he's a dictator.
The Chinese generally are keeping Southeast Asian economies afloat.
Without them it would just be bunches of brown people screaming allahu akbar and shitty murders.
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