Throughout history, the rise and fall of tyrannical leaders has brought forth many mixed emotions upon their people . It becomes apparent that people will hate tyrants, but what about those who never knew any other way of governance? In Nothing to Envy, The Cold War reader, Persepolis, The Life and Times of Fidel Castro, and The Little Fidel in All of Us we got to read the examples of various reactions to tyrant leaders. Tyrants shaped people into who they were, tyrants became a normality in their lives, and sometimes people even regretted moving away from their tyrant led countries. With Fidel Castro’s recent death these characteristics are seen upon Cubans, and Cuban Americans. Leaders of countries have a high influence on its citizens, therefore many people thought of Castro, Cuba’s tyrant, as highly influential to their lives. The New York Times published a story about a Cuban-American’s reaction to Castro’s death, stating how relevant their leader was to her family. Achy Obeja cited Nestor Diaz stating how “[He] doesn’t know if there’s any …show more content…
Normal to them was worshipping leaders like Fidel Castro or Kim Il-sung. In Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick mentioned how citizens in North Korea faced hardships because they were poor but “they assumed that nowhere else in the world were people better off… and that they were quite lucky to have been born in North Korea under the loving care of the fatherly leader (Kim Il-sung).” In reality Kim Il-sung didn 't do anything for the poor but since they knew nothing else about the world they thought he was doing more than other country’s leaders. That’s where brainwashing becomes a dictator’s main source of power. If someone is born into a dictator’s reign, they know no other way of living so they have no other life to compare it to. That’s why in the lack of that normality people become