15.3% of matchups won
275 matchups
Elo 1220
tracked 2025/05/17 → 2026/09/18
mission: Establish totalitarian regime · Politics and military · politicians
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing15%
picked as helping wellbeing
164 matchups
16%
picked as hurting wellbeing
111 matchups
People are split on it.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Nikita Khrushchev
→
40.9% wins · Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
02
Vladimir Lenin
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50.1% wins · founding leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924
03
Benito Mussolini
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15.6% wins · dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1945
04
Mikhail Gorbachev
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41.3% wins · leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991
05
Kim Jong-il
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21.6% wins · Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011
Known for
- Led Soviet Union
- Industrialized economy
- Defeated Nazi Germany
- Expanded Soviet influence
- Purged political opponents
Based on 275 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/18. Full rankings ·
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