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No. 1496728
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Really doesn't need its own thread and would fit better in the "Old Famous Dead People as Lolcows" thread but I'll talk about the subject anyway
>First Dictator of my country Ayub Khan's wife was a conservative rural pashtun woman and she was never seen in public other then a handful of times, picrel is her at the farback
>second dictator Yahya Khan(no familial relation to Auyb Khan) remained a bachelor his entire life and had no legally recognized children, but he did have many affairs and possibly many bastard children
>third dictator Zia-ul-Haq's wife was the first one to play some part in politics, mostly giving lectures for morality organizations and was friends with the Queen of Jordan which helped in foster relations between Pakistan and Jordan
>Pervez Musharraf(most hated of all the dictators cause of how passive he was and being a muhajir) also was a rural conservative woman and rarely appeared in public
No. 1496851
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Peng Liyuan got nothing on Jiang Qing, she was a baaad bitch!
No. 1868442
>>1868301also the one before him was referred to as "The Administrator"
>>1868347what country are you from?
No. 1868951
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I've always wondered what the cash value of Imelda Marcos' shoes really was. Because if you look at the photos of the surviving collection, it's obvious that there are a lot of both cheap meemaw shoes and duplicates in there. 3000 shoes doesn't sound quite that decadent if 90% of it was just cheapo dollar store shoes in every color they came in, and she had been hoarding them her whole adult life. I don't think insanely priced women's shoes and handbags were even a thing until the 1990's.
No. 1869247
>>1868437Iran. The previous dictator was called the (reverend) Imam. This one tries to make everyone call him Imam too but hasn't succeeded kek.
>>1868442What country are you from?
No. 1897971
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I was always fascinated by the Soong sisters. The oldest one, Ai-ling, married the richest man in China, Ching-ling married Sun Yat Sen, and Meiling was the wife of Chiang Kai-shek. I wonder what kind of home life they had to become so sought after by most powerful men in China. I know their family was rich, but it still doesn't explain everything. They're like an Eastern, more successful version of the Mitford sisters.
No. 1898613
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Ri Sol-ju gives Imelda Marcos and Asma Al-Assad a run for their money when it comes to being a bougie ‘ride or die’ bitch
No. 1898631
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>>1898621>we don’t know nothing about herOn English/western media you don’t, use the Korean site NAVER, it has more info on her than Google (I recommend using the translate option on your phone though).
https://m.search.naver.com/search.naver?sm=mtp_hty.top&where=m&query=%EB%A6%AC%EC%84%A4%EC%A3%BCKorean wiki page:
https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%A6%AC%EC%84%A4%EC%A3%BCWhy you rarely or ever see her wear the mandatory badge (again, use translate option):
https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/081/0002388946I’d also recommend watching any propaganda films featuring her and clips from the last inter-Korean summits to get a better feel of her character.
No. 1898647
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I recommend reading "Dictadoras" / "Madam Dictators" by Rosa Montero. I don't know if it's properly translated to English, original is in Spanish. Talks mostly about the wives of European and Russian Dictators. I enjoyed it a lot. Not all of the wives were lolcows tho, some were downright misserable, like Stalin's wife/wives? (I don't remember much about the book so cmiiw).
My favourite was Carmen Polo, wife of Franco. She would visit a city near the town where his husband was born, and when that happened, someone would alert the jewelry stores beforehand. Then, the owners would close them down for that day, because if they didn't she would go to their establishments and take all of the pearls they had: necklaces, earrings, etc. The woman would then tell the owners to send her… an invoice (?) and she would pay it later, but no one would send her anything because she was the wife of the fucking dictator, you don't ask el Caudillo for money lol. So they would lose shitloads of money because of Carmen Polo.
Apparently, if any of the jewel stores wasn't able to close on time and was raided by Carmen Polo (kek), the other jewel stores would come together and give the owner money or jewels back, to share the losses. When I heard about this, I thought that was beautiful. Shows how, in the midst of dark times, people come together.
No. 1898679
>>1496774Never understood why they made a musical glorifying her when they treated the country so badly.
Only tangentially related but the mystery of Peron's missing hands is fascinating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_of_Per%C3%B3n No. 1898832
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>>1898804>>1898804Reminds me of Cromwell's wife, she persuaded him to become to become MP(which is just a minor state representative) eventually he'd take part in a rebellion against the crown, find he had a knack for war and become a dictator of a puritan theocracy, unsurprisingly, without him personally commanding the loyalty of the military it was unsustainable and fell apart.
No. 1899250
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Can’t forget about Asma
No. 1900280
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Needs more Latin flavor in this thread: Cilia Flores, Nicolas Maduro’s wife
No. 1900285
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Lis Cuesta and Miguel Diaz-Canal, rockin’ commie chic
No. 1901382
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Mr. and Mrs. Pooh Bear
No. 2175152
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Has anyone read this?
>From the author of the international bestseller, Red Azalea, comes the stirring, croucally charged story of the woman known as 'the white-boned demon' - the ambitious wife of Chairman Mao whose actions led to the death of millions in the Cultural Revolution. From the young, unwanted daughter of a concubine, defiant in her refusal to have her feet bound, to the wayward, beautiful actress on the stages of Shanghai, to the ruthless, charismatic partner of the great revolutionary leader, Mao Zedong, Anchee Min moves seamlessly from the intimately personal to the broad sweep of world history in this fascinating portrait of an extraordinary woman driven by ambition, betrayal and a desperate need to be loved. Finely nuanced and always ambiguous, Min penetrates the myth surrounding Madame Mao with passion and sensitivity to paint a surprising picture of one of history's most vilified women. Rich with compressed drama and all the lyrical poetry of great opera, Becoming Madame Mao is a startling and moving achievement.
No. 2235098
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One of my favourite and by far the most played games is Jagged Alliance 2
It is a tactical game set in some imaginary South American country where you and your team of mercenaries get to dispose of a dictator.
The dictator in the game beared such striking resemblance to Mira Marković, the wife and right-hand of Slobodan Milošević.
I took great pleasure in fighting against her, and this has surely contributed to it being one of my favourite games ever
Mirjana was to Slobodan much as Elena was to Nikolai Ceausescu. She had her own political party that was focused on getting the youth vote, JUL
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Left No. 2306939
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp31yj8wqqno.ampBad bitches, bad bitches,
What’cha gonna do?
What’cha gonna do when they come for you?
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