Mid-century Despots from LIFE Magazine

voxsartoria · Feb 16, 2009

What happens when no one can say no to you? Some mid-century examples:

1945: Patrick Hurley, Chiang Kai-Shek, Mao Tse Tung

1949: Francisco Franco

1956: Sukarno with Mamie Eisenhower

1960: Fidel Castro and Gamal Abdul Nassar

1960: Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro

The Shah of Iran

1961: Kennedy and Sukarno

1963: Francois Duvalier carrying gun as he rides through Port Au Prince streets

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embowafa · Feb 16, 2009

they were all drapists!!

AndrewRogers · Feb 16, 2009

The Shah looked much better in informal clothes.

Azure · Feb 16, 2009

I like the collar of the communist of the middle of the 1 picture.

Franco, the man who saved Spain from the commies,what a classy man!

voxsartoria · Feb 16, 2009

Feel free to list the SF-approved details of each despot.

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embowafa · Feb 16, 2009

Originally Posted by Azure

I like the collar of the communist of the middle of the 1 picture. Franco, the man who saved Spain from the commies,what a classy man!
and murdered thousands of people who opposed him in the process. wooo hoooo he was awesome. I'm digging Castro the most....he definitely makes that SW&D workwear look work for him.

adambparker · Feb 16, 2009

I clicked on this thread thinking I'd find pics of 8-year old Chris Despos in breeches.

HRoi · Feb 16, 2009

Franco's cane looks like it has a deadly concealed weapon of some sort. either that or he is so committed to his Socialist Revolution that he goes and picks up loose paper trash in state parks in his spare time...

voxsartoria · Feb 16, 2009

Originally Posted by HRoi

Franco's cane looks like it has a deadly concealed weapon of some sort. either that or he is so committed to his Socialist Revolution that he goes and picks up loose paper trash in state parks in his spare time...

This modern version might make the purpose more obvious:

And please: the formality of this thread precludes any auto-erotic behavior because of the photograph above.

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Azure · Feb 16, 2009

Originally Posted by embowafa

and murdered thousands of people who opposed him in the process. wooo hoooo he was awesome.

I'm digging Castro the most....he definitely makes that SW&D workwear look work for him.

I only wanted to talk about clothes but you shooted before;

He won a war against the leftist who killed and raped 50,000 religious people before the war incluiding some of my family. He was a hero and I got pictures of him in my main room.

Period.

End of conversation

Azure · Feb 16, 2009

Originally Posted by HRoi

Franco's cane looks like it has a deadly concealed weapon of some sort. either that or he is so committed to his Socialist Revolution that he goes and picks up loose paper trash in state parks in his spare time...

Franco was not socialist but the contrary! A great religious conservative guy in the way of Nixon,Reagan or Eisenhower!

Where did you read that man?

Connemara · Feb 16, 2009

Originally Posted by Azure

I only wanted to talk about clothes but you shooted before; He won a war against the leftist who killed and raped 50,000 religious people before the war incluiding some of my family. He was a hero and I got pictures of him in my main room. Period. End of conversation

embowafa · Feb 16, 2009

Originally Posted by Connemara

+1

countdemoney · Feb 16, 2009

A parade of morning suits! That's some serious iGent **** right there.

Or do a group of morning suits have a special name - like a pride of morning suits, or perhaps a brace. And silly hats. You can never go wrong with silly hats.

AndrewRogers · Feb 16, 2009

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

Feel free to list the SF-approved details of each despot.

- B

I think this chap passes the LL and SF test. Rubinacciesque

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