Authoritarians would be more correct.

Pol Pot comes to mind

Thank you for the context! While they don't ring a bell, I am miserable American. Perhaps the ensuing esearch I do will help. Ty. Edited to add that of course they ring a bell. Just not in th3 context of these posts.

You can't not call Stalin conservative given he worked on destroying everything Lenin built, he was the worse kind of conservative, the kind that actually wants to go back and remove recent advancements