MANILA, Philippine—In the Netflix documentary series “How To Become A Tyrant,” one of the rules in the playbook of would-be dictators was to surround themselves with trusted allies who would do all their bidding, blindly, and sing nothing but praises to their masters.
This was what Adolf Hitler (record: killed 6 million Jews), Saddam Hussein (record: killed 250,000 people), Idi Amin (record: killed 300,000 people), Kim dynasty of North Korea (estimates: killed 1.6 million), Josef Stalin (record: killed 15 million), Mao Zedong (record: killed 45 million) had in common, according to the documentary narrated by “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage.
Tyrants, dictators, strongmen…
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