# Toughest leaders in history

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toughest-leaders-in-history/666595
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 18, 2013, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toughest-leaders-in-history/666595 "2013-08-18T22:57:38Z")
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### Author: ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toughest-leaders-in-history/666595/61 "2013-08-22T23:51:28Z")

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Read at least two other accounts of it. Even if it’s not true, just look at his pictures. Look at the eyes. Doesn’t look look like someone you’d want to mess with, even if he wasn’t a tsar.

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