| There is a "1984" feeling, not being able to trust anyone completely, always afraid to be taken away for the slightest comment, if not out of pure bad luck | |
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| It reminds me of Terry Pratchett's "small gods" and what Death says about Vorbis [spoilers? The bus broke down and we had to walk | The movie, starring Dominic Cooper as both Saddam Hussein's son Uday and his body double or 'fiday', Latif Yahia, in the Iraq of the late 1980s, was hands down my favourite of 2011 |
| It was also made in to a movie Guardian article, below | What he had to do to survive and save his family is beyond imaginable |
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| Imagine the biggest spoiled brat you've ever known, then remove all societal boundaries so that entitled brat is now allowed to steal, rape, and murder with impunity and you have the vile princeling Uday Saddam Hussein | August 11, 2017 - Started Reading August 11, 2017 - Shelved August 11, 2017 - Shelved as: pdf |
Even if only a fraction of it is true and I believe most of it is accurate, as I've seen several of the tales about Uday in other sources , the entire Saddam Hussein regime is following nicely down the path paved by the likes of Hitler and Stalin.
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