Dictators.
The handful of ruthless people who changed our history by torturing people at their will and those who had no value for a human life whatsoever. Only their power or their ideals was what mattered to them. But what inspired them to be how they are? What inspired their actions?
Here are a few of them and the things that made them who they were.
1. Adolf Hitler – The Native American Holocaust
It is said that the system the neo-Americans had executed to fairly successfully wiping out the natives by putting them reservations (those areas are still called that) influenced Hitler’s ghettos and concentration camps which were very similar in the architecture of the concept and the conditions.
2. Joseph Stalin – The writings of Marx and Lenin
Joseph Stalin was one of the lucky ones who came from meager means and went to become the worst dictators in the history of the world. His ideas were entirely Marxist and in the favor of development of the country in the beginning but under the tutelage of Lenin, they slowly began to fade away and power took the place of the ideas.
3. Kim Il Sung – The Russian Way
He was moved from Korea as a child with his family to China from where he went to fight with the Soviet Union for the World War II from where his return to Korea was facilitated.
His Russian counterparts helped him become a political icon in Korea which led to the personal ideology which resulted in a civil war and the subsequent breaking of the country into North and South Korea.
4. Mao Zedong – The strong emperors of Chinese past and US Statesman George Washington
It’s said that this revolutionary leader and one the most feared dictators around the world, as a child, was a voracious reader and was very interested in the writings of revolutionary, nationalist writers like Kang Yuwei and as he grew up the words and works of Washington and other Chinese leaders in the past, as he watched China crumble, made him the man he was.
5. Pol Pot – Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution
Saloth Sar (real name of Pol Pot), was already a part of the Cambodia Communist Party which was hiding in the jungles from then ruling Prince of Cambodia.
Mao’s Cultural redesigning idea invited Pol Pot’s interest when in power which led to the Khmer Rouge Genocide which took at least a million lives.
6. Robert Mugabe -The ruling style of Ghana’s then PMÂ Kwame Nkrumah
The first leader of Ghana after their independence was extremely communist and a devout Marxist, which inspired the sharp mind of Mugabe which only brought unrest in his home country, Zimbabwe which he held as a PM from 1980-87 and then the President of the small debt-ridden country from 1987 through 2008.
8. Benito Mussolini – His father’s dictions and nonchalance
His father taught him to not pay heed to any authority but he never gave him any affection either. Before fascism took over Germany’s darkest hour, it was Mussolini who sided with the concept for the first time in Italy and advocated it with his policies and strict dictatorship.