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Islam Karimov, Uzbek dictator. Getty Images Like Nursultan Nazarbayev in neighboring Kazakhstan, Islam Karimov has been ruling Uzbekistan since before its independence from the Soviet Union - and he seems to share Joseph Stalin's style of rule.
Mikhail Gorbachev. Soviet dictator from 1985 to 1991 whose policies caused the end of the Soviet Union; revisionist historians identify him as the true Cold War Hero, not Reagan. Sputnik. In October 1957, the Soviet Union surprised the world by launching Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.