Even so, he is a Martyr.
"a vicious brutal dictator who deserved to be overthrown As vicious as Lenin and Stalin? I think not...buut I could be wrong. Please cite evidence for this.
Even so, he is a Martyr."
I can't cite such evidence.
But you don't need to be as bad as Stalin to deserve to be overthrown and in any case the people get to choose thier leaders and leaders who won't leave when the people want them out have to be removed. We were lucky in the American revolution that King George didn't live here but with an entrenched Czar unwilling to go into exile they had fewer choices.
That doesn't make the man or his wife a martyr any more than Tookie is a martyr.
The martyrs are the Russian people - the ones who clung to Bolchevism as a way out of tyranny only to find there were far worse dictators yet to come.