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 ... ... replace his father in order to maintain the Assad regime formula. An Assad in power was only way the various factions within the Syrian elite could be sure that the regime formula and balance of forces to which they were accustomed would be maintained. Bashar ...