Take a look at leaders from around the world before they became famous. It’s totally weird to see these people, who have played a crucial role in whatever is happening to the world we live in now, as simple and innocent young people with, in most cases, cluelessness about what their big future.
#1 Joseph Stalin As A Young Man, 1902
#2 Young Bill Clinton Shaking Hands With President John F. Kennedy In The Rose Garden Of The White House. July 24, 1963
#3 Eighteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth Of England During Her Time In The Auxiliary Territorial Service During WWII Where She Drove And Repaired Heavy Vehicles, 1945
#4 Vladimir Putin As A Young Teenager, 1966
#5 Young Barack Obama Smoking A Joint
#6 John F. Kennedy At Age 10, Hair Slicked Back, 1927
#7 Richard Nixon Is Shown As A Member Of The Whittier College Football Squad In Whittier, CA, 1930s
#8 Young Donald Trump In New York’s Military Academy
#9 Angela Merkel Prepares A Meal On A Campfire While Camping With Friends In Himmelpfort, German Democratic Republic In July 1973
#10 Young Nelson Mandela In 1961
#11 Young Adolf Hitler
#12 George W. Bush In Baseball Garb At Yale University, Ca, 1964-68
#13 Kim Jong-il With His Father, Kim Il-sung, And His Mother, Kim Jong-suk In 1945
#14 Young 14th Dalai Lama
#15 Pope John Paul II Shaving
#16 Pope Francis As A Young Boy
#17 Young Margaret Thatcher Aka ‘The Iron Lady’, The Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
#18 Portrait Of Fidel Castro In New York In 1955, During An Interview
#19 Thin Hugo Chavez In Military Academy
#20 Bashar al-Assad As A Kid, Now The President Of Syria
#21 Mugshot Of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff In 1970 When She Was Part Of The Guerrilla Movement That Fought Against The Country’s Military Dictatorship
#22 Mahatma Gandhi In 1887 As A Law Student
#23 King Salman Of Saudi Arabia At 19, In 1954
#24 A Young Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister (bottom Left) Pictured With His Family In 1956
#25 Karol Wojtyla, Before He Was Pope John Paul II
#26 Young Saddam Hussein, The Former President Of Iraq
#27 Young Nicolae Ceaușescu, The General Secretary Of The Romanian Communist Party
#28 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu In 1972, Shaking Hands With President Zalman Shazar During His Time In The Israeli Defense Forces
#29 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani In The Early 1970s While Doing Military Service
30 Pictures Of World Leaders In Their Youth That Will Leave You Speechless — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani In The Early 1970s While Doing Military Service