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Dictator of Iraq for over two decades, Saddam Hussein led the Baath Party, fought the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War after invading Kuwait, violently repressed Kurds and Shiites, and was overthrown by the US-led invasion in 2003 and executed in 2006.
Political axes
Saddam Hussein leans further toward militarist than 97% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Diplomacy is where Saddam Hussein stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Saddam Hussein sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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Spanish authoritarian nationalism of Catholic and syndicalist inspiration, advocating a corporatist state, national unity, and social hierarchy, becoming the ideological pillar of Franco's regime in Spain.
Nationalist and syndicalist current that rejects liberalism and Marxism, advocating national unity, corporatist organization of labor, authoritarian social justice, and popular mobilization around the state.
An ultranationalist doctrine of national rebirth that rejects liberalism and Marxism, exalts the totalitarian state, regenerative violence and the leader cult, and treats the nation as a secular religion, with variants beyond the Italian regime that named it.
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Progressive LibertarianismLibertarian24%
King of Qin who unified China in 221 BC and proclaimed himself first emperor, he ruled through Legalism with harsh laws, replaced feudalism with centralized commanderies, standardized script and coinage, burned books and began the Great Wall.
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A Eurasian presidential republic, Russia concentrates power in an authoritarian, nationalist regime, with an economy dependent on natural resources, a strong military apparatus, and a foreign policy of confrontation with the West.
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Ruled by the Ba'ath Party from 1968 to 2003, Iraq combined Arab nationalism, state oil and one-party rule. Under Saddam Hussein, the regime intensified repression, fought wars against Iran and Kuwait, and faced international sanctions.
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