Italy's Benito Mussolini fainted when Edda Mussolini was born, but did he go on to kill her husband? In Iraq Saddam Hussein's first daughter Raghad Hussein was given the nickname 'Godmother of Terror' in a newspaper, but did she support her father after he killed her husband? and in Haiti, did Marie-Denise Duvalier, threaten her father Francois Duvalier, one of the longest serving dictators of Haiti with a machine gun, to save her husband's life? Special dictator-daughter mentions; Aisha Qaddafi of Libya and Zoia Ceaușescu of Romania.
Daughters are said to hold a special place in their Dad's hearts, so what happens when the father is a Dictator?
And why all these dead husbands?
This Week's Figures:
Francois Duvalier, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Benito Mussolini,(and their daughters), Hitler, Goebbels, Winston Churchill, JFK, Mohammed Al-Fayed, King Hussein
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