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We’ve covered the young presidents of USA already, but let’s broaden the scope now and take a rare glimpse at the leaders from around the world before they became the almighty God-like figures.
It’s utterly strange to see these people, who shaped the world we live in now, as simple teenagers with all the innocence in the world and, in most cases, cluelessness about what the future is holding for them.
(h/t: vintage.es, demilked)
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#1
Joseph Stalin As A Young Man, 1902
Gianluca Cafagna 8 years ago
No no...he was HOT...unfortunately he became sadly famous and not for his beauty...
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Joy Patterson 8 years ago
F*****g hot. Can't beleive I'm saying that.. Just think that this psycho killed millions of people ...
Julia Śliwińska 8 years ago
he was such a handsome man and he grew up to be one of the greatest killer of all times who murdered millions of innocent people.. don't judge book by its cover..?
Beverly Luria 8 years ago
Very handsome! On the outside that is. Wonder when he turned ugly inside?
Apollo 8 years ago
If his father had not cruelly abused him as a child, maybe he would have become the poet he was trying to be, instead of a mass murderer. And Hitler could have become a painter. Raising kids the wrong way boomerangs back a million times.
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#2
Young Bill Clinton Shaking Hands With President John F. Kennedy In The Rose Garden Of The White House. July 24, 1963
James Keen 8 years ago
Awww bless. From one adulterer to the next. JFK must have been a role model for BC
Alex Brouwer 8 years ago
If they ever make a movie about him. The only choice would be leonardo dicaprio
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 8 years ago
Why is the man in the background staring at his... hand? Crotch? Knees? SO many questions...
#3
Eighteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth Of England During Her Time In The Auxiliary Territorial Service During WWII Where She Drove And Repaired Heavy Vehicles, 1945
Ginger Snap 8 years ago
This is my favorite picture of her and her husband. It's just not how I picture royal families so it makes them more lovable! 2cb3966deb...6cd7f2.jpg 
Violaine LB 8 years ago
That's a badass job, especially at a time when women were not perceived as able to deal with cars and engines!!
Bobby Beebe 8 years ago
Just finished, "The Crown" on Netflix and they really nailed it, it seems.
#4
Vladimir Putin As A Young Teenager, 1966
Anna Brandigi 8 years ago
Not terribly surprising, although it is a bit of a shock that he kept his shirt on
Ironcat_xox 8 years ago
His face literally looks like he's thinking of all the people he's gonna rule over... in a creepy way
Uno. playero 8 years ago
thinking out loud: : - "after twenty years, you would be all mine" :-)
Load More Replies... Apollo 8 years ago
Everybody thinks he looks mean or cold but I think he looks like a really cute, vulnerable kid. I wonder how he became the monster he is now.
#5
Young Barack Obama Smoking A Joint
Catherine Hughes 8 years ago
You could have used many other more appropriate pictures of a young President Obama. I think this was most disrespectful. Especially when none of the other pictures were anything like this one. I think it shows extreme bias and I am very disappointed in this site.
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Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
It was a cigarette! Some girl took a roll of Obama pictures for a photography class at Occidental (his 1st college). She found them after he was inaugurated and had a show. It is definitely a cigarette, as it is in the other pictures.
Catherine Marcelo 8 years ago
Why imply he's smoking a joint? It looks like a cigarette to me.
#6
John F. Kennedy At Age 10, Hair Slicked Back, 1927
Ironcat_xox 8 years ago
WTF?!?!?? It's like they copy - pasted his face when he was older onto a ten year old!
#7
Richard Nixon Is Shown As A Member Of The Whittier College Football Squad In Whittier, CA, 1930s
Bobby Beebe 8 years ago
Nixon is kinda serving Leonard from Big Bang Theory here. That stare tho...
Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
Why did he slick back a nice curly head o' hair like that? He's much less smarmy looking with curly hair!
Robyn Scott 8 years ago
The curly hair balances and softens his face - he kind of looks not too bad. Slide the photo up so the hair is just hidden and "oh - it's Nixon".
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Lilli Roberson 8 years ago
someBODY ONE TOLD ME THE WORLD WAS GONNA ROLL ME
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Young Donald Trump In New York’s Military Academy
Mieke Sorée 8 years ago
Still scrares me that this guy appears on a list about 'world leaders'.
Jocelyn Malone 8 years ago
Smiling because he knows he will never have to actually prove himself in the military.
Sally Hintz 8 years ago
How did that sweet face turn into such a selfish, greedy, uncaring, commie dupe
Joe Dad 8 years ago
Greed turns an innocent soul sour. We all were born innocent. It's our choices in our life that mold us. He made bad choices. Now he's bad.
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KawaiiMira 8 years ago
Alright, I've been told that this is his school uniform. I still think he's a fraud and con artist.
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Angela Merkel Prepares A Meal On A Campfire While Camping With Friends In Himmelpfort, German Democratic Republic In July 1973
Lukacs Peter Varga 8 years ago
The sole remaining image of her hands not forming a romboid shape.
Jay Kay 8 years ago
Why?! Do you know what is she doing to Europe right now??!!
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#10
Young Nelson Mandela In 1961
James Keen 8 years ago
Even then looked like a born leader. Much respect to one of the greatest leaders of all time
Bobby Beebe 8 years ago
Wow, a beautiful striking pose. There is sort of a regal presence in this photo.
#11
Young Adolf Hitler
Bobby Beebe 8 years ago
The mustache makes me sick, well actually this whole photo makes me sick.
Pia Clarke 8 years ago
If you think about it, what he accomplished is actually quite fascinating. How more or less one man could brainwash an entire nation. Not condoning it or anything. But this part of German history is interesting.
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Joe Holliday 8 years ago
No, he had a longer mustache when he was younger. In his mid twenties, he shaves it down to the Chaplin style mustache because he couldn't form a proper seal on a gas mask (military requirement) with his longer mustache.
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Sabina Diesel 8 years ago
I think people should read and get all facts about mr. Hitler, they shuld know whay he did kill and hate jews .....for me he is fascinating because he did like it was already said controled a whole nation... People's are just ....never mind
Andy Cee 8 years ago
Very well said. People just jump on the bandwagon and say how bad he was because theyve heard other people say it.
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#12
George W. Bush In Baseball Garb At Yale University, Ca, 1964-68
Tatiana Jacobsohn 8 years ago
Jason Hervey playing Wayne Arnold in The Wonder Years. Is that you!?
Kaisa Haatanen 8 years ago
Used to hate the guy (before AD 2017) but I`ve always liked this pic.
Bridget Smith 8 years ago
Haha isn't it crazy how 2017 had put things into perspective? Suddenly candidates from previous elections didn't seem so bad after all...
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#13
Kim Jong-il With His Father, Kim Il-sung, And His Mother, Kim Jong-suk In 1945
Daria B 8 years ago
I agree, actually. The Kim dinasty of N. Korea is a notorious one for sure, but aesthetically they're a good looking family, whose leaders sadly choose to be fat and looking like caricatures... Too bad.
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#14
Young 14th Dalai Lama
Kevin Donegan 8 years ago
This is a tough one ... He knew as a child he was the Dalai Lama. When this photo was taken he knew he was the reincarnated leader of his people.
malika lehbib 3 years ago
il est aussi complice du genocide des Rohingyas
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#15
Pope John Paul II Shaving
Jerry Mathers 8 years ago
Dear Lord, smite these whiskers from my face that they may trouble me no more nor act as an impediment to thy will, Amen. :-)
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Emil Woźniak 8 years ago
A celebrity who did nothing to protect children from rape. He knew but he did not do anything about it.
#16
Pope Francis As A Young Boy
Josta Loos 8 years ago
Het looks so nice and friendly...not a catholic but I kind of like this guy
#17
Young Margaret Thatcher Aka ‘The Iron Lady’, The Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Aleksandra Stanisławska 8 years ago
She must have, a little, when she died...
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Marioara Popescu 8 years ago
I always wondered if she would have allowed this brexit s**t to happen to England.
Kaisa Haatanen 8 years ago
She would have brexeted earlier being the cow she was.
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#18
Portrait Of Fidel Castro In New York In 1955, During An Interview
Bobby Beebe 8 years ago
My 87 year-old mother-in-law worked for the Batista gov't back in Cuba in the '50's. She and husband had to flee for their lives coming through Canada first before becoming a citizen of the USA. She has avowed never to return to her homeland b/c of Castro and his policies and my heart hurts for her when she speaks of the old days. Gave me tons of perspective.
Guillaume O'Perucha 8 years ago
Batista... The Fulgencio Batista who murdered 20,000 Cubans in seven years, turned Democratic Cuba into a complete police state and destroyed every individual liberty?
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Steve Hoehlmann 8 years ago
ummm there's been a mistake, this is clearly a photo of Justin Trudeau...
Michelle Bishop 8 years ago
What does a Cuban look like lol? Most Cuban are of European and African descent.
#19
Thin Hugo Chavez In Military Academy
Carlos Alejandro 8 years ago
Este resentido hdp que daño a un pais tan hermoso como Venezuela!
#20
Bashar al-Assad As A Kid, Now The President Of Syria
Iftikhar Hassan 8 years ago
Can't believe that you are so brainwashed that even a two year old baby looks evil to you. How f****d up is this and you.
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Iftikhar Hassan 8 years ago
I don't give a damn about Asad, but know one thing for sure that until USA involvement, Iraq and Syria were at peace, there was no ISIS and at least 5 million people were alive. Please keep your democracy to yourselves. 😀
Nomadus Aureus 8 years ago
His is an interesting story. In the great, Middle Eastern style democracy that Syria used to be, actually, his older brother was the heir. When he unexpectedly died, Bashar was called back (I think from London?). He used to be a medic, and actually started out as a modernising force in the country.
Steno RT Kaluba 8 years ago
The leadership was given from father (Hafiz al-Assad - who was a dictator) to son. I'm sorry but democracy (greek: δημοκρατία, Dēmokratía literally "rule of the commoners") doesn't work this way.
Load More Replies... Kaz Tiknius 8 years ago
You are all bunch of hypocrites you should be ashamed of yourself these comments...should we kill your babies if for example well they look not right for me>? So you get a baby I come over say well your baby looks a bit evil to me you know, we will have to kill it because well just because you know it looks evil and everybody says it looks evil so yea lets just kill it, and you say no its a good baby, but me and my friends are like no no no we don't like your baby.....
Angela Tilyard 8 years ago
Would you all say the same if you saw a photo of Hitler as a baby? My nephew pulls faces like this for gods sake. It doesnt mean he is a monster in waiting. You are all condemning a man who is trying to protect his own country from isis and American backed rebels? Syria is much better off with Assad there. It will turn to utter c**p like the rest of the middle east if he gets kicked out.
Cat Meow 8 years ago
He is not doing a great job in protecting his country when he kills his own people... and I'm not only talking about the chemical attack last week.
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Mugshot Of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff In 1970 When She Was Part Of The Guerrilla Movement That Fought Against The Country’s Military Dictatorship
Stinkypie Ticklebum 8 years ago
Now, that's someone who knew this photo would be famous one day...
Lilya 8 years ago
This is an example of a human being, incapable of grammar. Honestly, people over 18 shouldn't be allowed on the internet, unless they are capable of grammar. Don't go talking about the "smart ones" unless you're one of them. *smh*
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#22
Mahatma Gandhi In 1887 As A Law Student
Ross Copeland 8 years ago
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, not Mahatma, which is an epithet meaning Great Soul, not a name
Ironcat_xox 8 years ago
I can actually see the resemblance. The nose, the lips...
Load More Replies... just a thought 8 years ago
I maybe an Indian.... But I don't like him or Nehru for various reasons ...
BusLady 7 years ago
He was only 13 when he married, and his bride only 14. He was probably not much older than that here
Neeraj Jha (Submission author) 7 years ago
He was born in 1869 and this picture is of 1887, so 18 years. And he completed his education after his marriage which was kind of a norm back then.
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Ashley Robertson 8 years ago
Gandhi was actually a pious fraud, known as a paragon of peace when truly he was a misogynistic racist who proved very difficult to work with even during peaceful interactions. You should not be proud to share a birthday with him, as if it were significant anyway. I encourage you to read The South African Gandhi, or even search for his accurate bio. He believed black south africans were barely human, women were sex objects, absolutely insane ideas about menstruation and rape, and slept with underage girls to test his celibacy vow. He was a man of horrific ideas who does not deserve his reputation.
#23
King Salman Of Saudi Arabia At 19, In 1954
Iftikhar Hassan 8 years ago
And he knew that Americans will be licking his balls no matter whatever human right he violates. 😀 😀 😀
Miklós Nagy 8 years ago
Because he can snetence anyone to death who doesn't like it.
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#24
A Young Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister (bottom Left) Pictured With His Family In 1956
#25
Karol Wojtyla, Before He Was Pope John Paul II
#26
Young Saddam Hussein, The Former President Of Iraq
#27
Young Nicolae Ceaușescu, The General Secretary Of The Romanian Communist Party
Esmeralda Esmeralda 8 years ago
Gorgeous face actually! Like a male model. Sorry, I don't pay attention to backgrounds, I just love cute guys hahaha
Ironcat_xox 8 years ago
Same tho. I was gonna say something about how 'Calvin Klein model' he looks, but his background is... well yeah.
Load More Replies... Andrei Pietoni 8 years ago
romanians looks like this generally, I'm a romanian and I can say ...her wife was all his evil
Lavinia Fodorean 8 years ago
He has the face & eyes of one among many from lower class whose sufferings made him raise a Romania, that was impoverished by the bourgeoisie, lots of romanians would have remained as peasant workers without his modernization reforms. You seem a bit of more capitalist propaganda indoctrinated!
#28
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu In 1972, Shaking Hands With President Zalman Shazar During His Time In The Israeli Defense Forces
Francie Traschen 8 years ago
what about the Palestinians and the rest of the surrounding arab countries terrorizing tiny israel from the moment she was founded??
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Good Nothing 8 years ago
Trying the best for his people... Gaza strip is a big problem in our country, but the responsibility over it is not only Israel's to take its both Egypt and Israel. The thing is nobody actually wants to take action of releasement because its freaking scary... The situation as it is now, only time and common people could actually do things... :/
#29
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani In The Early 1970s While Doing Military Service
Lindsay Nicely 8 years ago
Superfine. I'm getting crushes on all these guys. Based solely on these pictures.
MΣMΣ KIПG 5 years ago
Then remembers the moment wwlll was going to happen
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Aisha Kusumasomantri 8 years ago
I can imagine him as a hipster barista in an artisanal coffee shop, somewhere in Manhattan. He can have my number ;)
Michael Wolgroch 7 years ago
Wait a sec. You call Natanyahu (an elected leader of a free and democratic state) a killer and Rohani (a dictator leading an extremist Islamic hate regime) Hot? You are really twisted.
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#30
Ms Park Geun Hye Pictured With Her Parents And Her Two Younger Siblings - Sister Geun Ryong And Brother Ji Man
Dongyoung Shin 8 years ago
Her dad was the then dictator, both parents were assassinated. Happy family.
Daniel Belmiro 8 years ago
Dilma Rousseff was a terrorist, the Brazilian military dictatorship happened to avoid the communism in the country and was intended to be temporary and end as soon as possible, but it lasted 21 years when the military regime wasn't necessary anymore, the military decided by themselves to end the regime, and protests were allowed. At least we have more freedom than the Cubans, maybe we would have more freedom if Dilma and her predecessor weren't elected.
#31
Young Hillary Clinton Around 1969
Laura Phipps 8 years ago
Sometimes evil comes with a pretty face. Like Snow White's step mother.
Laurie McClain 8 years ago
I think she was beautiful looking then, but I've never been able to stomach her at all. Horrible woman.
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Nadine 8 years ago
Pictures of great people who contributed to humanity in an incredible positive way along side many who advocated for killing and wars...humm
Kyla Frates 8 years ago
Not all world leaders did good things. There have been bad leaders and good leaders.
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Jan Feline 8 years ago
Looking at these pictures, especially the kids, I can't help but wonder when some of them made the transition to evil. I wonder if it was all self serving, or if some of them believed they were doing the right thing.
Alina Florentina 8 years ago
Nicolae Ceausescu was not only a secretary, was the president of Romania
Ross Copeland 8 years ago
Mohandas K Gandhi, Mahatma is not a name but an epithet meaning Great Soul
Nadine 8 years ago
Pictures of great people who contributed to humanity in an incredible positive way along side many who advocated for killing and wars...humm
Kyla Frates 8 years ago
Not all world leaders did good things. There have been bad leaders and good leaders.
Load More Replies... Jan Feline 8 years ago
Looking at these pictures, especially the kids, I can't help but wonder when some of them made the transition to evil. I wonder if it was all self serving, or if some of them believed they were doing the right thing.
Alina Florentina 8 years ago
Nicolae Ceausescu was not only a secretary, was the president of Romania
Ross Copeland 8 years ago
Mohandas K Gandhi, Mahatma is not a name but an epithet meaning Great Soul
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