
Interested in becoming a tyrant? There are rules, and the playbook for a rise to dictatorship starts with one of history's most brutal: Adolf Hitler.
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Adolf Hitler, Muammar Gaddafi, Kim Jong-il, Kim Il-sung
You've secured your place at the top, but maintaining power means watching your back. Nobody did that better or more ruthlessly than Saddam Hussein.
Guest Stars:
Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin
When keeping your population under control, is it better to be loved or feared? Idi Amin certainly thought he knew the right answer to that question.
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Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Kim Jong-il
Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.
Guest Stars:
Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin
Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.
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Muammar Gaddafi, Madeleine Albright, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin