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31 Surprising Photos Of Young World Leaders Before They Became Big
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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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Joseph Stalin As A Young Man, 1902
Young Bill Clinton Shaking Hands With President John F. Kennedy In The Rose Garden Of The White House. July 24, 1963
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
Just finished, "The Crown" on Netflix and they really nailed it, it seems.
Vladimir Putin As A Young Teenager, 1966
Not terribly surprising, although it is a bit of a shock that he kept his shirt on
Young Barack Obama Smoking A Joint
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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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.
Why imply he's smoking a joint? It looks like a cigarette to me.
We don't care what he is doing, just show us picture, show respect.
Looks like someone I definitely would want to hang out with. But I already knew that.
All of you idiots fail to understand that Odumbo himself admitted to smoking marijuana. Stuff it libtards.
Yes, in the past he smoked weed. I appreciate a president who doesn't lie his ass off.
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Why would he enter as a foreign student if he is a US citizen?
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John F. Kennedy At Age 10, Hair Slicked Back, 1927
WTF?!?!?? It's like they copy - pasted his face when he was older onto a ten year old!
Richard Nixon Is Shown As A Member Of The Whittier College Football Squad In Whittier, CA, 1930s
Nixon is kinda serving Leonard from Big Bang Theory here. That stare tho...
Angela Merkel Prepares A Meal On A Campfire While Camping With Friends In Himmelpfort, German Democratic Republic In July 1973
Young Nelson Mandela In 1961
Wow, a beautiful striking pose. There is sort of a regal presence in this photo.
George W. Bush In Baseball Garb At Yale University, Ca, 1964-68
Kim Jong-il With His Father, Kim Il-sung, And His Mother, Kim Jong-suk In 1945
Young 14th Dalai Lama
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.
Young Margaret Thatcher Aka ‘The Iron Lady’, The Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Portrait Of Fidel Castro In New York In 1955, During An Interview
Bashar al-Assad As A Kid, Now The President Of Syria
Mugshot Of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff In 1970 When She Was Part Of The Guerrilla Movement That Fought Against The Country’s Military Dictatorship
Mahatma Gandhi In 1887 As A Law Student
King Salman Of Saudi Arabia At 19, In 1954
A Young Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister (bottom Left) Pictured With His Family In 1956
Young Saddam Hussein, The Former President Of Iraq
Young Nicolae Ceaușescu, The General Secretary Of The Romanian Communist Party
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu In 1972, Shaking Hands With President Zalman Shazar During His Time In The Israeli Defense Forces
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani In The Early 1970s While Doing Military Service
Superfine. I'm getting crushes on all these guys. Based solely on these pictures.
Ms Park Geun Hye Pictured With Her Parents And Her Two Younger Siblings - Sister Geun Ryong And Brother Ji Man
Her dad was the then dictator, both parents were assassinated. Happy family.
Stalin was pretty hot :-D
Pictures of great people who contributed to humanity in an incredible positive way along side many who advocated for killing and wars...humm
Not all world leaders did good things. There have been bad leaders and good leaders.
I didn't say the title was misleading.True, they were all leaders to their followers. I was merely stating an opinion about what I saw
Nobody said "great people". The title just said "leaders before the became big". Hitler wasn't big?
Looks conniving even back then
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.
I wish this was more of a place of positivity and art rather than political views. :( But the posts where wonderful!
Nicolae Ceausescu was not only a secretary, was the president of Romania
Mohandas K Gandhi, Mahatma is not a name but an epithet meaning Great Soul
Well stalin was hot asf Nd putin is cute lol
Putin was cute
Not so long after he looks like this while still young
Hillary clinton was hot!.. 😁
Starlin, Nixon, Fidel
Stalin, Nixon, Fidel
Ou...they have happy young own life too
Young Hillary Clinton was hot.
Why not one of Adolph Hitler? Oh. I get it. You're a leftist.
Dave Nesbitt no
Moral of the story: don't let good looking people rise into power!
Stalin is fake at least seriously ps. Check on google, there are some young guys photos look like him a lot more than this one
That's Obama with a cigarette, not a joint.
Stalin blows everyone away .
Of all the great photos of Obama...why one of him smoking pot. Your heart wiuldnt allow you to post a nuce reputable photo og a great man. Yet mask murderers are presented respectfully. Shame on you.
Stalin HANDSOME and Hitler looked just like my dad without mustage ofcource 😀😁😃
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.
Mandela looks like Louis Gossett Jr ha
Stalin was a terrible man but oh mylanta what a looker😍
Joseph Stalin was very handsome as was Donald Trump!
In all of these pictures of famous (and infamous) world leaders, they were either in military school garb or with their families when they were little or shaking the hand of another older famous world leader...except for Obama. For his picture, they showed him smoking pot. Come on, Bored Panda. You can do better than that. You must do better than that. This kind of racial microaggression will not be tolerated. How about this picture of a young Barack Obama in law school? Young-Bara...e8ce7d.jpg
Interesting to see the pictures but I have to say #3 Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland ... not England
Kim Jong- Suk In lol
Nothing surprising here,only I thought Thatcher was born a man.
Hillary was hot af
🔝
Love these!
They all have something in commun , they look so beautiful and inocent
Why is Trump a part of this list? This is world leaders...
Well he is in charge of America which makes him fall under the category of world leaders.
Why is Hillary?
Its a bit strange how "normal" those people look compared to what most of them have done... mostly a sad story...
Some of these did not grow up to be big people. They may lead nations, but they are so very small on the humanity scale.
Dalai Lama, Merkel and Stalin on a list together.... well....
I know, what is Merkel doing between those assholes.
Well, none of them threw up a nuclear bomb in the middle of a city...
Why the dictators? Remove them? They don't deserve a place next to the good guys
Now I'm wondering, who among us will be the biggest dictator, or some great carporation's leader, etc.? Wondering if after 50 years, we will say "fuck, I had crash on her/him"?
Stalin was pretty hot :-D
Pictures of great people who contributed to humanity in an incredible positive way along side many who advocated for killing and wars...humm
Not all world leaders did good things. There have been bad leaders and good leaders.
I didn't say the title was misleading.True, they were all leaders to their followers. I was merely stating an opinion about what I saw
Nobody said "great people". The title just said "leaders before the became big". Hitler wasn't big?
Looks conniving even back then
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.
I wish this was more of a place of positivity and art rather than political views. :( But the posts where wonderful!
Nicolae Ceausescu was not only a secretary, was the president of Romania
Mohandas K Gandhi, Mahatma is not a name but an epithet meaning Great Soul
Well stalin was hot asf Nd putin is cute lol
Putin was cute
Not so long after he looks like this while still young
Hillary clinton was hot!.. 😁
Starlin, Nixon, Fidel
Stalin, Nixon, Fidel
Ou...they have happy young own life too
Young Hillary Clinton was hot.
Why not one of Adolph Hitler? Oh. I get it. You're a leftist.
Dave Nesbitt no
Moral of the story: don't let good looking people rise into power!
Stalin is fake at least seriously ps. Check on google, there are some young guys photos look like him a lot more than this one
That's Obama with a cigarette, not a joint.
Stalin blows everyone away .
Of all the great photos of Obama...why one of him smoking pot. Your heart wiuldnt allow you to post a nuce reputable photo og a great man. Yet mask murderers are presented respectfully. Shame on you.
Stalin HANDSOME and Hitler looked just like my dad without mustage ofcource 😀😁😃
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.
Mandela looks like Louis Gossett Jr ha
Stalin was a terrible man but oh mylanta what a looker😍
Joseph Stalin was very handsome as was Donald Trump!
In all of these pictures of famous (and infamous) world leaders, they were either in military school garb or with their families when they were little or shaking the hand of another older famous world leader...except for Obama. For his picture, they showed him smoking pot. Come on, Bored Panda. You can do better than that. You must do better than that. This kind of racial microaggression will not be tolerated. How about this picture of a young Barack Obama in law school? Young-Bara...e8ce7d.jpg
Interesting to see the pictures but I have to say #3 Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland ... not England
Kim Jong- Suk In lol
Nothing surprising here,only I thought Thatcher was born a man.
Hillary was hot af
🔝
Love these!
They all have something in commun , they look so beautiful and inocent
Why is Trump a part of this list? This is world leaders...
Well he is in charge of America which makes him fall under the category of world leaders.
Why is Hillary?
Its a bit strange how "normal" those people look compared to what most of them have done... mostly a sad story...
Some of these did not grow up to be big people. They may lead nations, but they are so very small on the humanity scale.
Dalai Lama, Merkel and Stalin on a list together.... well....
I know, what is Merkel doing between those assholes.
Well, none of them threw up a nuclear bomb in the middle of a city...
Why the dictators? Remove them? They don't deserve a place next to the good guys
Now I'm wondering, who among us will be the biggest dictator, or some great carporation's leader, etc.? Wondering if after 50 years, we will say "fuck, I had crash on her/him"?