Great Leaders

Colonel Khadaffi's visit to Italy this week has proven that oldskool dictators are still alive and kicking. The Libyan leader was dressed in his finest uniform to impress prime minister Berlusconi. But Khadaffi certainly isn't the only dictator who likes a little pomp every now and then. More examples below.

Spanish president Francisco Franco

Greek prime minister Georgious Papadopoulos

Yugoslavian president Tito with the sniper rifle he used during world war two

Secretary-general Leonid Brezhnev of the USSR

The founder of communist China, Mao Zedong

North-Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh

North-Korean president Kim Jong Il visits the local Madurodam

Kim's father Kim Il Sung with Albanian prime minister Enver Hoxha

Dictators like Cambodia's Pol Pot love children

Paraguayan president Alfredo Stroessner

The Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez

Chavez' BFF Fidèl Castro

Chilean president Augusto Pinochet

Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie

Ugandan president Idi Amin checks if the mattress will hold him

The Iranian ayatollah Khomeini

Saudi king Abdullah locks lips with American president George W. Bush

More Arabian intimacy: Iraqi president Saddam Hussein greets PLO-leader Yasser Arafat

The fearless Dutch leader, prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende