20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

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Sometimes it is difficult to imagine how politicians looked long before they gained power and left their mark on the history of different countries of the world. This material presents old photos of world leaders of the present and the past, where you can see them as they are unlikely to have ever seen.

(20 photos in total)

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history Source: businessinsider.com

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

The current 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

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, headed the country's government in 1980.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Being at the age of 19 in the early 1990s, the current Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi participated in a quiz show where he managed to win an amount equivalent to several tens of thousands of euros.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Japanese Prime Minister 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 Swiss police officers.

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 organization of the Scouts of Buckingham Palace. Two stripes on her uniform indicate that she is the head of the scout troop.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Former US President Bill Clinton as a child dissects the yard on a pony, Arkansas.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (then president of the Oxford Union Debating Society) in 1986.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (center).

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

Former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after a 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 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1986. At that time, he was the Israeli ambassador to the United States.

20 world leaders long before they left their mark on history

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

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

The leader of the Communist Party of Romania 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.

Keywords: XX century | Vintage photos | Childhood | Leaders | Youth | Politicians | Past | Old photos

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