Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what politicians and dictators were like before they started being recognized by the world.
Here are some old photos of major leaders, past and current, to give a taste of who they once were.
Check the pictures out below.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a military service uniform in an undated photograph.
Kim Il Sung, the former leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as a 16-year-old in 1928. He joined a communist youth organization around that time and was arrested and jailed for activities with the group.
An undated photo of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman. He was first made deputy governor of Riyadh in 1954, at about age 19.
As a child Angela Merkel wanted to become a ballerina. Instead she earned a doctorate in chemistry and became the first female Chancellor of Germany.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, bottom, wrestles with a classmate at the St Petersburg Sportschool.
A young Justin Trudeau in 1973 with his prime minister father, then prime minister Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Stalin, who later became the leader of the USSR, in 1902, a few years after he dropped out from seminary school.
Young Corporal Benito Mussolini, a member of the Bersaglieri Regiment, who later became the leader of the Italian Fascists, after his arrest by Swiss police in 1903.
Dictator Adolf Hitler as a baby.
A young Queen Elizabeth II writes a message to Chief Guide Lady Olave Baden-Powell as her younger sister Princess Margaret Rose looks on in 1943.
Former US President Bill Clinton along with wife Hillary.
US President Barack Obama in his young age.
Former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Former US President George W. Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968 to 1973.
Mahatma Gandhi’s picture as a child
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Sourced from Independent , Featured image courtesy: georgiapapadon.com
