Colonel Gaddafi Part 3: Vengeance Day

Real Dictators

NOISER

History, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Muammar Gaddafi can’t quite believe his luck. Still in his twenties, he finds himself leader of an oil-rich country. The Colonel wastes no time kicking out the Americans and the Brits. He instigates a 'Vengeance Day' to deal with Libya’s colonial oppressors. Living standards soar for ordinary Libyans. But the cracks are already appearing. Things are about to spin off in a very different direction... For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the Medinus, the mosques and the suks, Gaddafi's arrival as a new Libyan leader is generally
0:11.0	welcome.
0:12.0	It's a relief.
0:14.8	Crowds throng the streets of Tripoli to greet him, to get a glimpse of their new
0:19.2	savior.
0:21.4	After Libya's long history of colonial rule, this feels, finally, like an active self-determination.
0:28.8	The old king was the puppet of the West.
0:31.7	His court was corrupt.
0:34.0	Everyone knew that.
0:35.6	Yet here is a young man, a Libyan, not a foreigner, nor one imposed by foreigners.
0:42.1	Gaddafi is one of them.
0:44.0	A man from humble origins, religious, devout.
0:48.0	Not from the accursed elite.
0:51.1	Yes, Gaddafi may speak in slogans, couching his policies in fashionable revolutionary rhetoric,
0:58.3	but the thrust of it makes sense.
1:01.0	Libya is no longer a monarchy, Gaddafi proclaims.
1:04.5	It is now a Libyan Arab Republic.
1:08.1	His mission statement is simple, to build a society over which shall flutter the banner
1:13.6	of brotherhood and equality.
1:17.4	With the people on his side, Libya, Gaddafi decrees for the first time, will be for the Libyans.
1:26.6	Welcome back to Real Dictators.
1:29.3	In this episode, we return to Libya for the third part of the Colonel Gaddafi story.
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