Episode
How to Become a Tyrant: Create a New Society
Overview
Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.
Details
- Series
- How to Become a Tyrant
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2021-07-09
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Create a New Society is Episode 5 in Miniseries of How to Become a Tyrant. It aired on 2021-07-09. The runtime is 26 min.
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