My Dictator
My Dictator explores the afterlives of political leaders who overstayed their welcome, lingering in our minds and identities long after their terms are expired.
My Dictator: Growing up in Ceausescu’s Romania
We believed—at least a little—the things we had been repeating all our lives.
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My Dad’s Dictator
I can’t detect enough of a person in all the swirl of stories to hate.
My Dictator: Slobodan Milosevic
He cast fellow Serbian nationalists as victims and heroes, and himself a great patriot defending the kingdom.
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My Dictator: Jean Chrétien
Whenever I told people that my great-grandmother taught him English, they would joke that she hadn’t done a very good job.
My Dictator, Hastings Banda
Naively, they thought with Banda and about 500 of his supporters in jail, everything would just go back to “normal.”
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Loving Moi
Propaganda works on the young.
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War Has Broken
Remembering the Father of the Nation, in Silence
