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Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia were two very imposing dictators who ruled their nations cruelly and powerfully. Their tactics worked in the short run to superficially hold together ethnic tensions. However, both countries violently imploded from decades of internal repression after Tito died in 1980 and Saddam was captured in 2003.
Saddam Hussein was born in 1937 into a very troubled household. His brother and father died shortly before his birth, and his mother refused to see him after birth. Saddam grew up as a poor street kid and was raised mostly by his uncle. His uncle’s bitterness against imperialism and Western society and culture was passed down to him. Saddam failed to finish high school, but instead got involved in the Ba’ath Socialist Party. Marshal Tito, meanwhile, was born Josip Broz in 1892 to peasants in Austria-Hungary, and was the seventh child. He only had a few years of education and attended school from only age seven to twelve. At age......

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