One of the hardest things to wrap your head around in life is that nothing is black and white. People are multifaceted and even the most awful humans in history had to have moments when they did normal, everyday stuff. It’s our nature to want to imagine people in one-dimensional terms – good people are all good and bad people are all bad. But it never works that way. Some of history’s greatest villains still had hobbies and did every day or even surprising stuff to keep themselves busy from day to day. Let’s take a look at 10 terrible people and their curious pastimes.
10. Robert Mugabe Collected Degrees
Robert Mugabe was the first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after the end of the British rule (in what at the time was Rhodesia) and later became its President. He served in office for nearly 40 years. He had been the leader of the anti-British resistance and to many was seen as a revolutionary and even a hero, fighting for the rights of his people and his country. The problems with his rule would come later when the word “tyrant” began to get tossed around.
Mugabe’s policy destroyed the economic power of the white residents of Zimbabwe which eventually spread to everyone. He used threats and blackmail to get what he wanted in his later years and many people have said it seemed like something changed in him after his wife died.
