Crowds Make Me Nervous

Crowds cheer Hitler and Mussolini on the Koniglicher Platz. The Italian President, Benito Mussolini, was making his first state visit to Germany. September, 1937



Ethnic Germans wearing traditional regional costumes give the Nazi salute and cheer Adolf Hitler on his visit to the town of Carlsbad in the Sudetenland, just after annexation by Germany in October 1938. Look at their faces.

A billboard poster of the Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara adorns the side of a building beyond a crowd of civilians and military personnel assembled for a parade, attended by Fidel Castro. Havana, Cuba, May 1, 1988.

Look at their faces. Is it this exact same naivety that brought so many other cult-like demagogues to such scary levels of power?

These images come from the fantastic pro.corbis.com