Reign Through Terror • 2021 • episode "S1E3" • How to Become a Tyrant

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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.

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How to Become a Tyrant • 2021 • 5 episodes •

Seize Power

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.

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Crush Your Rivals

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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.

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Control the Truth

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

2021 • History

Create a new Society

Create a new Society

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

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