"The dictators always fall; you just have to be ready when they do"

[spooky3]

—Prof. Tim Snyder, author of “On Tyranny”, speaking with Alex Wagner just now.

[Tomconroy]

1. Saw that

He's the Man!

[PortTack]

2. They do..the history books are littered with their names and evil deeeds.

[mahina]

3. Check out his YouTube series of Ukrainian history lectures at Yale University.

Wish I could remember which good DUer posted them here recently.

I think it’s up to lecture #4. Seems current. Extremely interesting. I find it curious that he has never introduced as a scholar of Ukrainian history as well as other history. I do worry when we feel like getting rid of Putin our problems are solved. See our notes in Saddam and Iraq.

[Solly Mack]

4. Didn't Franco die in office?

[TreasonousBastard]

5. And Stalin died at home, in bed.

[Solly Mack]

6. Yes. He was felled by a stroke.

While still holding office.

[Wounded Bear]

7. And Pol Pot...nt