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- Nov 07, 2020
Dictators Quotes
Historical reflections on authoritarian rule.
These quotes reference specific 20th century dictatorships, from Italy in the 1920s and Germany in the 1930s to Latin American regimes decades later. One notes that Saddam Hussein studied and copied Stalin as a model of modern dictatorship.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
- Opportunities
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the 'lunatics with beards' he so often used as bogeymen to guarantee the support of foreign allies.
- History
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History has proved that dictators can't last forever.
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Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
- Paranoid
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Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators.
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Corporations are the new dictators.
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More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
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Britain has supported theocrats and dictators as long as it served British business interests, whether under Tory or Labour rule.
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Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
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