by Paweł Kuczyński

[tagryn]

via http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1fuudc/the_sad_truth/

Comments

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Interesting! Should the second fellow look like Putin?

[tagryn]

Really, there's so many to chose from: Castro, al-Maliki, Morsi, Nazarbaev, and those are just contemporary examples. Idealism rarely seems to survive a rise to power, at least in the person being promoted to de facto king.