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Warpy

(110,913 posts)
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 10:13 PM Sep 2017

Dictators and Despots: A Timewatch Guide

Still another brilliant not quite an hour from the BBC's Timewatch series, tracing dictators from Julius Caesar forward, what they all have in common, how they came to power, and what they did once they got there. It is sobering.



(apologies to anyone who has posted this before. I didn't see it and besides, it does bear another airing.)

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