Thanks everybody. I'm thinking of going with "small-scale despots."
The context here is that the author is talking about the overuse of the term "fascism": Batista and Somosa were not fascists, they were tsarki.
--- Joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> tin pot dictator?
>
> j.
>
Mataiotes mataioteton, eipen ho Ekklasiastes, mataiotes mataioteton, ta panta mataiotes.
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