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How to Become a Tyrant

Documentary, War & Politics • 2021 • 30m

01

Seize Power

2

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.

02

Crush Your Rivals

2

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.

03

Reign Through Terror

2

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.

04

Control the Truth

2

Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.

05

Create a New Society

2

Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.

06

Rule Forever

2

Seizing power is hard, but keeping it is harder. In North Korea, the Kim dynasty unlocked the secret to ruling forever: They declared themselves gods.

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Reviews

Folio Swami
Folio SwamiJul 2021

Love Big Brother. Know that your beloved Leaders love you and can't sleep at night scheming to murder the Tyrant next door. Or shorter: North Korean propaganda, told from a Western perspective.

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