User blog:Scrawland Scribblescratch/Robespierre to Hitler: Really Forceful Dictatorships

Previous blog on absolutism.

Next blog on elective monarchism.

Right then: to this week's blog. Today I'll talk about dictators who killed a lot of people. I'll use three examples this time: Robespierre, Hitler, and Stalin.

Let's get one thing straight: Stalin was NOT a kind and benevolent ruler as the Soviet propaganda would have it.

So then, as we all know, dictators dictate. (Didn't see that one coming, did you?) They normally gain their power through force. To keep that power, you have to be very intimidating because I doubt dictators are popular. More common ways of keeping this intimidating feeling in the air is through threats. You could also frame your enemies for nonexistent crimes and jail them or send them off to Siberian labor camps.

Ah, Siberia. Now we'll start our examplingism.

Let's go chronologically.

Robespierre came to power in the French Revolution. A charming and appealing leader at first. Then he started the Terror and guillotined everyone from Royalists to Revolutionaries to personal friends. Thank god he was overthrown. Regardless, he had a simple law for keeping people in place. "Agree or die."

I have created the Lawbook of Robespierre. It has three laws.


 * 1) I am the one and only ruler.
 * 2) Join or die. Joining also requires no unjoining or disputing.
 * 3) Off with your heads.

Hitler more or less adapted that book, but changed it a bit.


 * 1) I am the one and only Supreme Ruler and Fuhrer of all Germans. (If he was Egyptian, I would add I am descended from the God, and I am God and the Son of God himself. Pharoahs said something like that, replacing God with Horus.)
 * 2) Same as Robespierre.
 * 3) Hit the showers.

Stalin had his own version of that book.

He also had a bonus law.
 * 1) I am the Boss.
 * 2) Same as Robespierre and Hitler. (Que surprise.)
 * 3) To Siberia! (Where you can die. Dying is optional. Other options are dying or dying.)
 * 1) When you're Russian for food, there's no time for Stalin.

What say ye chaps?

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Quote of the week:

"Off with their heads!" Unknown general, possibly Hannibal or Genghis Khan.

"Let them lose their heads." Another unknown general, possibly Richard III or Genghis Khan.

Both sentences basically mean let them lose their heads for being our enemies.

Joke of the week: (Sorry if this is offensive to anyone)

Empty this week. Please suggest a joke in the comments and suggest future jokes for the future blogs before I eleiminate this section.

Random fact of the week:

Steve Jobs apparently still has a monetary value. (To a fossil collector five thousand years from now, maybe.)

Poll of the week:

Should I add Manchuria to Japan in my TL? I feel that Japan is kind of dperived of territory, having only th OTL home isles without the Chissimia or Kuril Island and only the Southern half of Sakhalin to compensate. Anywhere else I can expand Japan? TAIWAN IS NOT AN OPTION FOR POSSIBLE REAL ESTATE HERE.

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Au revoir, my colleagues! See you folk i the comments!