But they died peacefully, or of natural causes. Most tyrants have rightfully been dug up, smashed up and interred somewhere less salubrious.
The point is they couldn't be stopped when they were alive. The brave insurrectionists were piled into mass pits.
The pont also is, it is one thing to talk about challenging an extremeist power, it is another to risk your life and many other innocent lives actually doing it. I applaud the ones who have been brave enough. But in most cases it didn't get them anywhere.