तानाशाह (en. Despot)

It is important that the despot appropriates all victories to himself, and hangs up all the defeats on the partner, while others can be blamed even for their own troubles at work, a spoiled mood and stuck in a traffic jam. Attempts to appeal to an adequate perception of reality are useless.

When was the last time a State, despot or dictator carried out a population transfer of millions of people?

Weapons of mass destruction, we are told, are being used by a cruel Middle Eastern despot against his own people.

Three main periods - the Oriental, the Classical and the Germanic - in which, respectively the single despot, the dominant order, and the man as man possess freedom -constitute the history of the world.