Top Tyrants: Playing happy families with dictators Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin

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Last Updated: 11:00AM BST 18/07/2008
A card game featuring the great dictators of history including Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin has been released in Germany.


A publishing house in Berlin has released the game featuring 32 despots to "make an ironic statement" about the tyrants.

The game, called "The Fuehrer Quartett" is based on a popular German children's card game called Quartett, similar to Happy Families.

In the traditional game, the cards feature cars or flowers or even beer brands, which players try to collect from their opponents.

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For Augusto Pinochet, the card says he destroyed a democratic system with help from the US, but rebuilt another one later, only to be toppled by it. "Somehow stupid," it says.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2306876/Playing-happy-families-with-dictators.html

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1. The Fuehrer Quartett: Bush Poodle Blair's official title is Quartet Envoy

- described in the media as a diplomatic job on behalf of the US, UN Russia and EU.

But nobody will say who pays him his consultancy fees, travel expenses, out of pocket/backhander $$$ or any other lucrative rake-offs.

Maybe somebody will update this German version with a Bush/Cheney/Blair/Brown/Ratzinger version.