Analysis: Putin is now more unpopular in the United States than former Cuban president Fidel Castor generally was. He also outpaces some lesser-known figures like Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Those numbers put Putin in some rarefied company when it comes to the most hated world leaders in recent American history.to see how Putin’s new numbers compared to some of the most nefarious leaders in the recent past. The upshot: Putin is now in the territory of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Un, Fidel Castro and Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He’s not quite as hated as the first two at their most-hated, but he’s awfully close.
There is, admittedly, relatively little polling on some of these leaders — though when there was, it was generally when they were at their most notorious, for obvious reasons. Our data also unfortunately exclude some figures we’d love to include, such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini and Pol Pot. Alas, the fewer pollsters we had in their times didn’t ask this question about them.
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