Fidel Castro vs. Jefferson Davis

[Middle-aged Europe]

The irony is that in a strict sense both Castro and Davis ran unopposed in a single-party system and were almost unanimously elected to their respective offices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_presidential_election,_1861

[Middle-aged Europe]

Unlike Castro, who has directly ordered the deaths of dissidents and opponents, dissent was common in the Confederacy, which was a genuinely free country if you were white.

And male.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Unlike Castro, who has directly ordered the deaths of dissidents and opponents, dissent was common in the Confederacy, which was a genuinely free country if you were white.

And male.

And heterosexual, and right-handed, etc.

Thanks for making fun of women's suffrage.