“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

As quoted in An American Savage (2003) by J. Flash (Jeff Flashinski), p. 144
Variant: Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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