We’ve covered the young presidents of USA already, but let’s broaden the scope now and take a rare glimpse at the leaders from around the world before they became the almighty God-like figures.
It’s utterly strange to see these people, who shaped the world we live in now, as simple teenagers with all the innocence in the world and, in most cases, cluelessness about what the future is holding for them.
(h/t: vintage.es, demilked)
#1 Joseph Stalin As A Young Man, 1902

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#2 Eighteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth Of England During Her Time In The Auxiliary Territorial Service During WWII Where She Drove And Repaired Heavy Vehicles, 1945

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#3 Young Barack Obama Smoking A Joint

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#4 Young Nelson Mandela In 1961

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#5 Young 14th Dalai Lama

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#6 Pope Francis As A Young Boy

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#7 Mugshot Of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff In 1970 When She Was Part Of The Guerrilla Movement That Fought Against The Country’s Military Dictatorship

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#8 Mahatma Gandhi In 1887 As A Law Student

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#9 Young Nicolae Ceaușescu, The General Secretary Of The Romanian Communist Party

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#11 Young Bill Clinton Shaking Hands With President John F. Kennedy In The Rose Garden Of The White House. July 24, 1963

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#12 John F. Kennedy At Age 10, Hair Slicked Back, 1927

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#13 Kim Jong-il With His Father, Kim Il-sung, And His Mother, Kim Jong-suk In 1945

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#14 Pope John Paul II Shaving

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#15 Young Margaret Thatcher Aka ‘The Iron Lady’, The Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom

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#16 Portrait Of Fidel Castro In New York In 1955, During An Interview

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#17 Thin Hugo Chavez In Military Academy

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#18 Bashar al-Assad As A Kid, Now The President Of Syria

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#19 King Salman Of Saudi Arabia At 19, In 1954

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#20 A Young Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister (bottom Left) Pictured With His Family In 1956

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