He usually ran about number eight on Parade Magazine's annual list of worst dictators.

Saddam Hussein, he is the worst dictator ever in the history of man.

Moreover, he is considered one the worst dictators in the world.

But in Ukraine, neither bad old dictators nor promising new democrats ever really backed the Iraq war.

"It's hard to imagine that these people had to live for so many years under one of the planet's worst dictators."

A weakling makes as bad a dictator as anybody else.

In 2007, Parade magazine ranked Mugabe the 7th worst dictator in the world.

The same magazine ranked him worst dictator of the year 2009 two years later.

Trujillo has been described as one of the worst dictators in the Americas.

Russia has liquidated the memory of its worst dictators.