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* On the other end of the political spectrum, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin and UsefulNotes/MaoZedong, while both viewed in America and Europe (''especially'' Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics) as on par with Hitler, if not worse, for the title of "worst mass murdering dictator of all time", are viewed much more positively in many parts of Africa, Latin America, and Asia. This is because of atrocities associated with European colonialism having much more impact in these parts of the world than the atrocities carried out by Communist regimes, combined with the role that both the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, along with more local Communist parties, had in supporting decolonization in the Global South during the Cold War.

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* Tsars Alexander I and Alexander II are fondly remembered in Finland. The first created the Autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, and the second gave Finland her Constitution.
* Creator/MikhailBakunin had his greatest and longest-lasting following in Spain, probably the major European country he spent the least time in life.
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* Believe it or not, the Polish race as a whole is this for the Carribean country of UsefulNotes/{{Haiti}}. Back in the 1800s, Napoleon of France was witnessing a slave uprising and dispatched Polish troops to quell it. The Poles, however, defected from the French side and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Haitians joined the Haitians]]. Even though Haiti was run by a black nationalist at the time, he deemed the Polish "the white (n-word)s of Europe". The Polish Legionnaires were even excluded from the other groups he genocided.
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* Believe it or not, the Polish race as a whole is this for the Carribean country of UsefulNotes/{{Haiti}}. Back in the 1800s, Napoleon of France was witnessing a slave uprising and dispatched Polish troops to quell it. The Poles, however, defected from the French side and joined the Haitians. Even though Haiti was run by a black nationalist at the time, he deemed the Polish "the white (n-word)s of Europe". The Polish Legionnaires were even excluded from the other groups he genocided.

* Although he failed to get re-elected for a second term as U.S. President, UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush is so beloved in Kuwait (the country that the United States and its allies liberated from Iraq during the 1991 Persian Gulf War) that many people have even named their children after him.

* UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte is viewed in much of Europe as a warmonger and aggressor. He is disliked in parts of Germany,[[note]]Napoleon's policies on the several German states varied widely and while you won't hear many people in Franconia defending him, since he is the main reason Bavaria rules over Franconia today, there are many regions where he is either seen WartsAndAll or outright positively[[/note]] Spain, Portugal, and Russia. Even is his native France, admiration for his abilities and victories is balanced by the recognition that he ultimately lost and that he played a large part in ensuring the French Revolution did not put France on a democratic path, not to mention the one million plus casualties the country suffered in his wars. Yet he is very popular among Jews and in Israel, mainly because of his Jewish emancipation policies.