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16 February 2012

The Alex Salmond dictator game

The Scottish First Minister has been compared to Milosevic, Mugabe, Hitler, and Kim Jong-Il. Can you

By Samira Shackle

Last week, Alex Salmond was criticised after he described a senior BBC official as a “political Gauleiter”, the name given to Nazi regional leaders. However, as one commenter, Jock (and this blog from Wings over Scotland), points out, this criticism was quite ironic given the array of dictators that the First Minister himself has been compared to. Here’s a selection.

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