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The Dictator's Playbook
Saddam Hussein
Season 1
Episode 2
Learn how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for almost 30 years. To maintain power, he used fear, intimidation and violence like few other dictators in history, but he made the fatal mistake of believing his regime could take on the world.
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Learn how Francisco Franco won the Spanish Civil War and became the dictator of Spain.
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Meet the man who created fascism, an ideology that plunged most of Europe into darkness.
