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Cuban revolutionary and Prime Minister/President (1959–2008) — who led the Cuban Revolution, allied with the Soviet Union, survived 638 CIA assassination attempts (according to Cuban intelligence), nationalized US companies, and maintained a communist dictatorship 90 miles from Florida for 60 years.
Founding chairman of the People's Republic of China — who led the Communist Party to victory in the civil war (1949), launched the Great Leap Forward (1958–62, 45 million deaths) and the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) — the most lethal political figure in history by direct policy consequences.
Russian revolutionary and founding leader of the Soviet Union — whose Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 nationalized all private industry including the Nobel oil operations — representing in the Founders context the existential political risk that can destroy even the most successful business empires.