Only God knows how many of these dictators, I have seen and experienced in my life. I guess the first one was Stalin, I was too young to know him, but I read everything I could get my hands on about him. I have seen the documentary about his private life of last years. He had ordered that they built a section in his residence with three identical apartments in a circle. So, nobody knew where he was sleeping at. He died a miserable death, because he had a stroke dying on the ground, trying to get to the door, but he could not. The next nobody dared to knock on the door to check him out. Finally, they called his henchman Beria to come and knock on the door, when they finally got inside, he was dead on the ground.
People who are familiar with history of WW2 know that when American forces got to the first concentration camps. Ike ordered the soldiers to be rotated, so that when they get back to the U.S they can tell ordinary people about Hitler's atrocities. The interesting difference between Ike and Stalin in dealing with Germany was that. Three hundred thousand Russian Soldiers were killed to conquer Berlin. Russian troops were surprised at the nice quality of life that German people had. So, Stalin ordered all those remaining Russian soldiers to be transferred to those parts of Russia that they did not have any contact with Russian people and could not talk about German lifestyle to Russians.
The next one of these creatures that I got to know was Abdul Karim Ghasem of Iraq. He got to power with a military coup. He killed the entire royal family of Iraq including the kings two months old son in his crib. A few years later there was another coup in Iraq. Ghasem was put through a half hour trial, was tied to his chair and machine gunned when reporters were taking pictures.
When the Soviet Union fell apart Mr. and Mrs. Ceausescu of Romania were put on trial and shot on live T.V.
The most miserable of these dictators was the Shah of Iran. He runaway from Iran to avoid facing a court. He was hoping Americans would give him a refuge, but they didn't. He went from country to country until he died a miserable death in Egypt.
The most brutal of these creatures was Saddam Husain, he was tried for genocide by Shiites that he hated, he was hanged by them too, while he was ranting and raving before being hanged one of the wardens pinched him on his butt the ultimate insult to a man in that part of the world.
My favorite was when W Bush was at the end of his second term, an Iraqi young man throws his shoe at him, a nasty insult of people in that country, later on an Arab sheikh bought that shoe for one million dollars.
Colonel Vladimir Putin's last days will come too. I probably will be gone by then, but these words will be there for people to see and hopefully learn from it.
(Article changed on Feb 27, 2022 at 8:50 PM EST)
(Article changed on Feb 28, 2022 at 8:24 AM EST)
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