I think you might just have a bias for the time period you know most. There was maybe a bit of a drop off around the end of the Cold War, these things go in cy

I think you might just have a bias for the time period you know most. There was maybe a bit of a drop off around the end of the Cold War, these things go in cycles. Many of them just died in the 70s, so it seems almost generational. The circumstances around the deaths and rise to power were shaped by the ages of these strongmen and the geopolitical events that led to their beginnings and ends.