Political Leaders and "Iron Cages"

... in positions of responsibility--in iron cages, where they became instruments of Stalin's brutal regime. Similarly, Gustav Husak, former Czechoslovak President and General Secretary of the Communist Party, was unaware of the iron cage he was ... ... of forces to which they were accustomed would be maintained. Bashar may well have started out as the kind of leader to which King Abdullah alluded, unfortunately, that was not to be his fate.