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Here comes the third and expected final part of the mini-series presenting the life and death of dictators. Fasten your seatbelts, let's begin! Try Rackhost now with a 3,000 HUF discount, but hurry up, because the offer is only available to the first 100 registrants! https://www.rackhost.hu/referral/coup... We are also on Instagram: / tizeslista Tizes lista Facebook: / tizeslista 0:00 Intro 0:41 Saddam Hussein Between 1979 and 2003, Iraq was under the rule of dictator Saddam Hussein, whose reign was punctuated by cruelty, unsuccessful and costly wars, which, let's say, did not make him very popular. Yet many in the Middle East thought he was the only leader capable of standing up to American oppression. But let's not rush ahead so much, let's first look at how Saddam came to be the head of a country in the first place. 6:09 Muammar Gaddafi Muammar Gaddafi's life, as you can probably guess, did not start out easy, just like most of the dictators in our series. Gaddafi was born in a tent in the Libyan desert, the son of a nomadic Bedouin farming family. From there, from this perhaps more surprising starting point than anyone else, the life of the future dictator began, who was in power for more than 40 years. 11:15 Mao Zedong Today, the name of China is intertwined with Xi Jinping, but this could not be so if Mao Zedong had not paved the way back then. The life of the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party did not start very excitingly, because he did not venture beyond his homeland until the age of 25. In fact, he was not a very good student, because up to this point he had only attended school for 6 years. Just for comparison, Gaddafi graduated at the age of 21. Sources: https://pastebin.com/dnTimAaD Music during the video: https://audiojungle.net/item/stylish-... Outro music: Cold Funk - Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Text: Bence Hatvani #dictator #history #top10list