Dictators who collected

• Saddam Hussein - Sci-fi fantasy paintings featuring menacing dragons and barely-clad blondes.


• Adolf Hitler - Bavarian 18th century furniture. Munich antique dealers were ordered to keep an eye out for him.


• Kim Jong II - 20,000 videos (Daffy Duck cartoons, Star Wars, Liz Taylor and Sean Connery flicks)


• Idi Amin - Several racing cars and loads of old film reels of I Love Lucy reruns and Tom and Jerry cartoons


• Joseph Stalin - Westerns with Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and John Wayne. Stalin also inherited Joseph Goebbels's films.