What is traditional from of authoritarian regime?
Pol Pot governed Cambodia from 1975 – 1979. In his short reign, 2 millions (out of 7.5 millions) were dead from purges, starvation, and persecution.
Kim Jong Il rules North Korea (the so-called hermit kingdom) which is the last Soviet-style totalitarian state still in existence.
Iran’s fundamentalist Islamic leader Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini (1900-1989) transformed Iran into a theocracy, a government based on religion and dominated by clergy. The regime waged war against Western ways and culture.