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It is the determining relationship in life: the band – or the lack thereof – between mother and child.
As was revealed in the post during the weekend, the barbaric worldview of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was influenced by the horrible experience of his mother, who barely escaped the hunger during the siege of Lingrad.
Although little is known about what kind of relationship Putin had with her, we know about the mother-son band in the life of some of the most notorious dictators of history.
Adolf Hitler
Given his murderous cruelty and loosened hatred against Jews, it is shocking to consider Hitler as a defenseless child.
But that is of course what he once was. When he grew up in his native Austria, Hitler was very close to his mother, Klara.
He found comfort in her hug after ordinary abuse was distributed by his brutal father Alois, who even turned his fists on the family dog.
Klara's death with breast cancer when Hitler 18 was in 1907 left the future dictator desperately behind.
Given his murderous cruelty and loosened hatred against Jews, it is shocking to consider Hitler as a defenseless child. Boven: Hitler as a baby with his mother Klara
In his infamous memoirs, Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote that the passing by his mother 'paved' him.
He said: 'I am grateful for that period in my life because it hardened me and enabling me to be as heavy as I am now.
'And I am even more grateful because I appreciate that I was saved from the emptiness of a convenience and that the darling of a mother from tender arms was taken and transferred to adversity about a new mother.
“Although I was then too hard against it, I am grateful that I was thrown into a world of misery and poverty and got to know the people for whom I was afterwards to fight.”
Klara Hitler died of cancer in 1907 and left 18-year-old Adolf Rail
Hitler in Munich in the spring of 1932, shortly before that Chancellor of Germany was elected
Joseph Stalin
Just like Hitler, Joseph Stalin was struck furiously by his father, who was an alcoholic.
His mother Ekaterine – known as Keke – worked as a laundry woman and was also handy with her son.
In the hope that he would become a priest, she sent him to a small Greek Orthodox school and then to the Theological Seminarie in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.
Stalin – who was born Joseph Dzhugashvili – repeatedly collided with the Spartan regime of the institution and was eventually deported because he was 'politically undesirable'.
The dictator would later credit his experience in the seminar, because the reason he took on the cloak of communism.
Ekaterine Geladze, the mother of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. She sent her son to the theological seminar in the hope that he would become a priest
He said, “I became a Marxist because of my social position, but also because of the hard discipline that crushed me at the seminar.”
Stalin, who was known as 'Soso' for his mother, grew far from Keke during his rise in power.
In one letter at home he wrote: 'I know you are disappointed in me, but what can I do? I am busy and can't write often. '
During a visit to his mother in 1935, two years before her death, Stalin reportedly demanded: “Why did you defeat me so hard?”
According to a doctor who treated her and heard the conversation, she replied: “That's why you got so good. Joseph – Who exactly are you? '
Stalin told her that he was 'just like the tsar', so that his mother said to tell him: 'you had done better to become a priest'.
Just like Hitler, Joseph Stalin was struck fiercely by his father, who was an alcoholic
Saddam Hussein
As the brutal ruler of Iraq for more than two decades, Saddam Hussein was responsible for a lot of misery.
Saddam Hussein had a traumatic education. Above: the future dictator of Iraq as a young man
But if his mother Subha Tulfah Al-Mussallat managed to get an abortion when she was pregnant with him, history would have been very different.
She tried and did not succeed in ending her pregnancy after the death of Saddam's father.
Subha also tried to take her own life. When Saddam was born, his mother did not want anything to do with him and sent him so to live with an uncle.
In 2004, the American psychiatrist Jerrold M Post said that Hussein's background 'was certainly the most traumatic' of leaders he had profiled.
When he was three, Hussein was reunited with his mother after she was married.
But the young person was then abused by his new stepfather. He returned to live with his uncle when he was eight or nine.
Dr. Post claimed: “Most people with that kind of background would be very ineffective if adults and falter, uncertain people.”
But Hussein developed instead what he called “malignant narcissism,” the personality disorder that claimed to raise his power solution.
Hussein was eventually overthrown in 2003, when the American and British troops invaded Iraq.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Haiti has been suffering from Duvalier regimes for more than 30 years.
First it was Voodoo-Beschedde Francois-Zogenmamant 'Dad Doc' and Then it was his son, 'Baby Doc' Jean-Claude.
The Matriarch was the wife of Jean-Claude Simone Ovide, the daughter of a merchant.
Haiti has been suffering from Duvalier regimes for more than 30 years. First it was Voodoo-Beschedde Francois-Zogenmamant 'Dad Doc' and Then it was his son, 'Baby Doc' Jean-Claude. The Matriarch was Jean-Claude Simone Ovide's wife, the daughter of a merchant
Just like her husband, Simone was also in Voodoo and he was a great force behind the throne.
When Francois died in 1971, Jean-Claude was still a teenager and so Simone continued to exert a lot of influence.
Baby Doc often left his mother's leadership when he took public roads to race his powerful cars, drunk drinks and cobbles women.
In 1986, when his son was driven out of power, Simone joined her son in exile.
They would live in virtual poverty in her last years.
Slobodan Milosevic
The Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, who provided mass murder in the nineties, had a traumatic early life.
Milosevic's mother, Stanislava, hung himself in the parental home in 1974, a decade after his father had taken his own life.
Stanislava had been a pious communist activist and Milosevic would have been her favorite.
Allegedly the dictator later said that his mother would “never forgive him” for his romance with his future wife, Mira Markovic, with whom she couldn't get along.
Milosevic suddenly died in 2006 when he was tried for war crimes.
Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, who provided mass murder in the nineties, had a traumatic life
Milosevic's mother, Stanislava, was in the parental home in 1974, a decade after his father had taken his own life
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Although he did not have the powers of a dictator, Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, has.
But the son of the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria also had a virulent hatred against Great -Britain, an attitude that contributed to the outbreak and continuation of the First World War.
Wilhelm's life was determined by his relationship with his mother, who was also called Victoria, and her reaction to his disability.
Wilhelm was born with a withered arm after a traumatic birth, was subjected by his mother to cruel treatments to try to cure him of his embarrassing disability.
Kaiser Wilhelm II had a tortured relationship with his mother Victoria
One concerned the Kaiser who had put his damaged arm twice a week in a freshly slaughtered hare in the hope that his blood would have a healing effect.
The young royal also tied his good arm behind his back to try to force him to use the withered.
And for two years he was regularly tied to a device with a metal rod to straighten his back and a screw to keep his head upright.
The young Wilhelm was desperately looking for his mother's attention.
He wrote Strange – almost sexually charged – letters to his mother princess Victoria in which he described dreams to kiss her hands and caress her.
'Promise me to do the way I did in my dream for you. I love you so much, “wrote the future German monarch in one.
But when she answered only about art and politics, the already tortured relationship continued to aggravate.
Victoria died in August 1901, only a few months after her mother the queen.
The Kaiser was forced to close in November 1918 in the midst of the defeat of his country in the war.
