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      94 days ago

      In the “Last Lion”, it’s clear that he was pampered very much as a child by his mother, he was sickly often, and so she doted on him. At this stage in his life, he was very much a mother’s boy.

      It’s amazing he turned out the way he did really. He still had some of those tendencies at the end, but a lot of his characteristics were exaggerated. For example his drinking. He didn’t actually drink more than 1 mixed drink a day usually, which he pulled on from his flask throughout. Any of the brandy or sipping beverages he was famous for consuming were typically non-alcoholic so he could retain his wits and make others think he was less together than he was. It was an intentional strategy, also, he still had health issues that prevented him from consuming too much alcohol. But he turned that into an advantage.

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        It’s honestly pretty incredible how much English propaganda survived the war. I still hear people claim English fighter pilots were orange because of all the carrots they ate to improve their night vision, which was a myth created by the English to keep the Germans from realizing they’d figured out radar.

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    Mussolini looks like he’d be a sweet, if quiet, kid but will occasionally squeeze to death a small animal because someone didn’t bring him his tendies

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        Yeah he does have the pouty eyebrows going. Kind of also looks like the godfather if he had a little rascals character.

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    I had to look up Getulio, which appears to be Brazil’s Getulio Vargas, of whom I had vaguely heard, but knew very little about. Which made for an informative read.

    It’s up for debate of he belongs in this life-up, instead of Mao, Pinochet, Franco or even Guevara or the north Koreans, but I’m not sure how available the childhood pictures of those are.

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    Hitler looks like an incel and Mussolini looks like he pooped his pants. (Edit: politeness)

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    As someone who used to work with kids a lot, every last one of them look like a little shit who is about to make my day at work measurably worse.

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    It’s odd that they all have pictures as kids. It like their parent brought them up into their future roles… hmmm…

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    515 days ago

    Funny how they all have different vibes.

    Stalin looks like a bully. Hitler looks like he’s been bullied and is going to be a school shooter.

    Many of the others look like pompous twats and/or spoilt rich kids.

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        234 days ago

        Hirohito was a prince and Roosevelt was old money. Idk about Eisenhower but American generals historically come from well to do backgrounds.

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          54 days ago

          After a cursory glance it seems like Eisenhower’s family would’ve been firmly middle class, not great but not bad either. So pretty standard merchants.

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    195 days ago

    so Hitler never changed his haircut since he was a child