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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sits at a table with a microphone, wearing a dark suit, during the Russia-North Korea Summit in Vladivostok.

Nazi SS troops march in formation carrying banners with swastikas and eagles at the 1933 Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, with trees in the background.

President Robert Mugabe wearing a patterned green suit and cap speaks passionately at a podium with multiple microphones during a ZANU PF rally in Harare, Zimbabwe.

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Fidel Castro stands at a row of microphones, wearing a military jacket and looking at the camera during his 1959 visit to Washington, DC.

Fidel Castro

political leader of Cuba