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Children of Dictators

Behind the Bastards

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Nikolai Is a Six Year Old Dictator in Training. And He's Taking Pictures With Barack Obama

Alexander Lukashenko has chosen his 13-year-old son Nikolai to represent Belarus at the United Nations General Assembly. I like that he's slapping Hugo Chavez a five instead of like shaking his hand or cowering in fear. And apparently gets to carry a gun everywhere. So what why does his dad bring him everywhere? Because he thinks it's like funny to make heads of state pose with him. It feels like some of it's that because Belarus has been condemned by a bunch of different countries including us through you know nightmarish human rights violations. Jailing political opponents. But I think some of it is training. Like he wants to establish like a Kim style dynasty.

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