
Children of Dictators
Behind the Bastards
Yakov Stalin
Nikolai Chichezku was the dictator of Romania from 1965 to 1989. As an authoritarian ruler he ordered troops to fire on protesters. He acquired a giant art collection and had a side job helping to run the nation's best soccer team. His first son Valentin was initially meant to be the heir apparent but instead became a nuclear physicist which he still does today.
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