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Muammar Gaddafi's Gold Fist And Other Dictators' Arrogant Art

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First Posted: 03/25/11 07:28 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:40 PM ET

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Gaddafi has posed beneath a giant gold fist in Tripoli, but he's hardly the first dictator to use art to create the illusion of victory. From Ramses II's colossal statue to a naked Napoleon, see some of history's most infamous leaders as you never imagined.

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Gaddafi has posed beneath a giant gold fist in Tripoli, but he's hardly the first dictator to use art to create the illusion of victory. From Ramses II's colossal statue to a naked Napoleon, see some ...
Gaddafi has posed beneath a giant gold fist in Tripoli, but he's hardly the first dictator to use art to create the illusion of victory. From Ramses II's colossal statue to a naked Napoleon, see some ...
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09:17 AM on 03/28/2011
I remember well the large picture that two US soldiers were carring of the world trade center that belonged to Saddam Hussein , they were carring it out of his palace .. it pictured one of the planes hitting the tower .. I remember the plane had his country's flag on it .... I wonder what they did with that picture .. something I don't think I will ever forget seeing ...
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12:43 PM on 03/27/2011
Where's Bush Jr., impersonating a member of the Armed Forces in front of a banner declaring "Mission Accomplished"? Or Dukakis driving his tank?
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09:20 PM on 03/26/2011
Kim Jong Il's painting looks like something taken from Michael Jackson's home....
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02:01 PM on 03/26/2011
That statue of Stalin is actually Lenin...
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08:26 AM on 03/26/2011
Mr. Kim Jon Il, Put Down That Girl.
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qirin
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05:18 AM on 03/26/2011
Hmm...That painting of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong Il looks amazingly like the artwork in the children's Bible my Grandmother gave me many years ago.
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