Category: Crazy Stories

Aviator sunglasses… check! Plenty of medals never won in battle…check! Female bodyguards… Meet former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, known to his people as the “Brotherly Leader and Guide of …

When we think of a prototypical Latin American dictator, leftwing or rightwing, images of a man with carefully coifed facial hair wearing a uniform with plenty of medals and …

The 1990s may have seemed like a boring time for many people in the world, especially historians. When the Cold War ended in 1991 with the dissolution of the …

When you think of dictators, Napoleon Bonaparte usually isn’t the first person to come to mind. He never subjected any people to mass starvation, he never devised a large …

When Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu was overthrown on December 21, 1989, and executed the next day, it happened so quickly that many people around the world almost missed it. …

Dictators for the most part are very manipulative people. They know how to give the people what they want, when to take it from them, and what their weaknesses …

As we continue our journey through the crazy things that dictators have done, it may sometimes seem like a descent into madness. Although there’s really no way of knowing …

As much as all dictators are infused with a healthy dose of paranoia, many of them—rightwing and leftwing—are actually pretty innovative with their methods of torture and repression. The …

If there’s one thing that all of the dictators in this book have in common; it is grandiosity and hubris that can’t be contained. They just don’t look at …