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DICTATORS’ ARROGANT ART

Gaddafi has posed beneath a giant gold fist in Tripoli, but he's hardly the first dictator to use art to create the illusion of victory. From Ramses II's colossal statue to a naked Napoleon, see some of history's most infamous leaders as you never imagined.

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