Who's In Charge ?
(Who's In Charge ?) It can be lonely at the top, especially if one has a position of authority. If one has to assume absolute power, in that position of authority, competition to that position would need to be removed. That had been the practice of Stalin when he purged the Soviet Union. In the Nazi rise to power in Germany, there was also a trail of political prisoners. When Saddam Hussein came to supreme position in Iraq, in a televised spectacle, members of the Ba ' ath Party that could possibly threaten Hussein were hauled away. to be immediately executed. And in China after the death of Mao, there was a struggle within the Chinse Communist leadership led to imprisonment and perhaps a few executions. It is happening again in China. China's current Premier. Xi Jinping has just secured an. un-precedented third term. However, in order to make the post un-assailable, Xi publicly had his immediate predecessor, Hu Jintao, removed from the Communist Party Congress. The sym...