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Behind the Bastards
It was a great book that the host referenced several times during the episode to support the claims he made about dictators' children. He quoted from the book about the relationship between Fidel Castro and his son, the life of Saddam Hussein's sons, and the life of Nikolai Chaushescu's children.
I'll be referencing it regularly here.
— Episode: Children of Dictators
Episode: Children of Dictators
It was a great book that the host referenced several times during the episode to support the claims he made about dictators' children. He quoted from the book about the relationship between Fidel Castro and his son, the life of Saddam Hussein's sons, and the life of Nikolai Chaushescu's children.
I'll be referencing it regularly here.
The Children of Monsters book quotes a biography of Castro called Guerrilla Prince, which is both a solid name for a rap album and which I'll also quote because it's great.
From his mid teens, Niku was an out of control drunk and a rapist. He raped at will and his will was ferocious and unopposable. He had complete license. He was the kind who could run red lights and kill people in the process with total impunity.
Children of Dictators quotes writer John Byrne as saying he was this tutor who visited him was met by chauffeured cars, put up in a five-star hotel and summoned for private sessions to Hannibal's home where gazelles and antelopes strolled around a garden.
the officers had been guarding Hannibal's own room. He struck them with bottles and emptied a fire extinguisher on them for good measure. He then pleaded diplomatic community as he would habitually do.