How Communication Creates Dictators?

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How Communication Creates Dictators?

When the Nazi concentration camps were liberated at the end of World War II from the years 1939 to 1945, the whole world discovered the true horrors of Adolf Hitler's regime. At that moment many Germans discovered what Nazism was truly about.

Dictatorships such as Nazism by Hitler, and Fascism by Mussolini and Franco, would've never made it if it wasn't thanks to propaganda. 

Even today, modern dictators always try to get the power of all the mass media so that they can influence the minds of their citizens or they can't distinguish the actual truth from their situation. The most common examples nowadays can be Kim Jong-Un and Sadam Hussein. And all these dictators have something in common; their regimes killed too many people.

The difference between the past century to the one in which we currently live is not that big. Mass media technology just changes and the ways of manipulating it change as well. 


Adolf Hitler, Sadam Hussein and Idi Amin
Adolf Hitler, Sadam Hussein, and Idi Amin being compared in the same picture
 



Some of the modern world's most known Dictators. 

    
There's a video link so you can be more familiarized with how the USA took measures with cartoons at the time to mock all of these dictatorships in the Western World, and it actually worked with Americans as well: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVtB6afVg9A  


References: 

ADOLF HITLER IN EARLY 1940’S FUHRER OF GERMANY 01 May 1941 OBERSALZBERG GERMANY. (1941, April 30th). Allstar Picture Library Ltd. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wolfenstein/images/3/3d/HitlerPhoto.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20210926232733

Burying a dictator: How other countries did it. (2022). Rappler. https://www.rappler.com/tachyon/r3-assets/612F469A6EA84F6BAE882D2B94A4B421/img/4A5D8737D5DE4003841E0258AF3A62F5/dictators-carousel-20160901.jpg

Dictator Saddam Hussein during the Interview in Bagdad. (1982). Gettyimages. https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTgwMzIxNzI5OTAwNDU1MDYy/gettyimages-113975611.jpg

His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular, in the early 1970s. Photographer unknown. [865 x 1294]. (1970). Pholder. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/history/images/3/33/Idi_Amin.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200516181205




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