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1-5 Facts About Cruel Dictators 1. The Dominican Republic, led by dictator Rafael Trujillo, offered to accept between 50,000 and 100,000 Jewish refugees in 1938. Only 645 made it and upon arrival, every new Jewish settler was given 80 acres of land, 10 cows, a mule and a horse. – Source 2. Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe tried to stop a critic of Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation by levying ridiculous taxes on his newspaper. The writer retaliated with advertisements printed on trillion-dollar-bills, which was cheaper than actual paper. – Source 3. Peter Tatchell, a British gay rights activist...

31-35 Facts About Cruel Dictators 31. When the KGB tried to blackmail Indonesian President Achmed Sukarno with videotapes of the president having sex with Russian women disguised as flight attendants, Sukarno wasn’t upset. He was pleased. He even asked for more copies of the video to show back in his country. – Source 32. In 1958, Chinese dictator Mao Zedong ordered the people of China to kill sparrows because they steal grain. Since sparrows also eat insects, their absence caused a locust epidemic that ravaged crops and killed millions of people. – Source 33. In 1973, Mao Zedong told H...