20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

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Sometimes it is difficult to imagine what politicians looked like long before they gained power and left their mark on the history of different states of the world. This material presents old photographs of world leaders of the present and past, in which you can see them in a way that you have hardly ever seen.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history
20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

16-year-old Kim Il Sung in 1928.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

7th King of Saudi Arabia Salman in 1954. At the age of 19, he was deputy governor of the country's capital, Riyadh.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 1990.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Russian President Vladimir Putin in the 1950s.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau feeds pigeons in Venice with his father, Pierre Trudeau, who in turn led the country's government in 1980.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

In the early 1990s, at the age of 19, former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi participated in a TV quiz show where he managed to win the equivalent of several tens of thousands of euros.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Japanese Prime Minister (2006-2007 and 2012-2020) Shinzo Abe (left) in 1956.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Fascist leader of Italy Benito Mussolini in 1903, after being detained by the Swiss police.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Adolf Hitler as a child.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain with her sister Margaret in 1943. They took part in the First Campaign of the Women's Scouts at Buckingham Palace. The two stripes on her uniform indicate that she is a scout leader.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Former US President Bill Clinton pony rides around the yard as a child, Arkansas.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (then President of the Oxford Union debating society) in 1986.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Ex-President of Brazil (January 1, 2011 to August 31, 2016) Dilma Rousseff (center).

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez after his failed attempt to overthrow the government in 1992. A few years later he was elected president.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu in 1986. At the time, he was Israel's ambassador to the United States.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Former US President Barack Obama with his grandparents in New York, 1980s.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Former US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1890s.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Romanian Communist Party leader Nicolae Ceausescu at the age of 16, 1934.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Indian public and political figure Mahatma Gandhi (right) with his brother Laxmidas in 1886.

     

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