The Worst Episodes of How to Become a Tyrant

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7.3/10(619 votes)
#1 - Seize Power
S1:E17/9/2021
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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7.3/10(514 votes)
#2 - Reign Through Terror
S1:E37/9/2021
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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#3 - Control the Truth
S1:E47/9/2021
Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.
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7.3/10(484 votes)
#4 - Create a New Society
S1:E57/9/2021
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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7.4/10(471 votes)
#5 - Rule Forever
S1:E67/9/2021
Seizing power is hard, but keeping it is harder. In North Korea, the Kim dynasty unlocked the secret to ruling forever: They declared themselves gods.
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7.5/10(582 votes)
#6 - Crush Your Rivals
S1:E27/9/2021
You've secured your place at the top, but maintaining power means watching your back. Nobody did that better or more ruthlessly than Saddam Hussein.
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