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It is no secret that many of the leaders were in prison before or after his reign. Here are some of the most outstanding personalities.

1. Vladimir Lenin





After the arrest of his elder brother Alexander in 1887 and his execution for attempting to overthrow the king, Vladimir Lenin, too, became a Marxist and a revolutionary. A few months later he was arrested for taking part in the rebellion of students and expelled from the university. Thirty years later, 17 October 1917, Lenin finished business started by his brother, becoming the head of the Bolshevik Party and made a revolution. 2. Fidel Castro



26 July 1953 26-year-old Fidel Castro led an attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago, Cuba, during an attempt to overthrow the dictator Batista Fulgeniko. The rebels lost the fight, but Castro was able to step back and hid in one of the villages, until he was found August 1st. At the trial, saying in his defense, he declared: "History Will Absolve Me", but was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Considering that the rebels no longer pose a risk, Batista pardoned Castro re-elected in 1955. After 4 years in Cuba, change of power.

3. Joseph Stalin



For many years before becoming the head of the Soviet Union, Stalin was a revolutionary, and was arrested several times and sentenced to exile, but he always managed to escape. During one of these links, and he changed his name to Stalin Dzhugashvili.

4. Manuel Noriega



In 1989, after a six-year reign of Panama, Manuel Noriega was overthrown with the support of the US armed forces. Noriega fled, but eventually surrendered and was sent to Miami, where he appeared before the court. In 1992 he was found guilty of money laundering and drug trafficking and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Later, the term was reduced to 30 years.

5. Josip Tito



Like Stalin, Josip Broz, a young revolutionary, frequently arrested during the First World War, but he fled the Yugoslav prisons. And, like Stalin, he took the pseudonym Tito. In prison, he met Moshe Pijade, who helped Tito understand the political philosophy. After World War II, during which Tito led the resistance movement, in 1948 he became the first president of Yugoslavia.

6. Joseph Ejercito Estrada



In October 2000, a little more than two years after he took over as president of the Philippines, Joseph Estrada was accused of corruption. During the impeachment in 2001, the uprising began, the armed forces of the Philippines was supported by Vice President Gloria Arroyo. The Supreme Court of the Philippines found Estrada guilty of perjury and theft and sentenced to life imprisonment, but a few months later, Arroyo pardoned him.

7. Benito Mussolini



In order to avoid military service in 1902, the 19-year-old Benito Mussolini fled from Italy to Switzerland. Unable to find work, he moved to the socialists, and was arrested in 1903 for inciting violence during the strike. He was deported to Italy, but a year later he was arrested again in Switzerland for falsification of documents. Eventually, Mussolini returned to Italy, served in the army and led the fascist party until his execution in 1945.

8. Menachem Begin



While in 1979, Menachem Begin was prime minister of Israel, he was born in Russia and studied in Warsaw. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Begin fled to Lithuania. When the Soviet Union invaded Lithuania it with another 120,000 people were arrested and exiled to Siberia. In 1941, he was released, and he led the Israeli Likud party. In 1977, he became the sixth Prime Minister of Israel and signed the famous peace treaty with Egypt.

9. Saddam Hussein



After the US invasion in 2003, Saddam Hussein fled Baghdad, but was eventually caught in December and jailed. In November 2006, the court found Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity, and the following month he was hanged.

10. George W. Bush



This is certainly not the one George W. Bush, is clearly seen on the photos. That Bush was arrested in June 2004 in Fort Myers, Florida, pimping, and he now just will not be able to become president.