[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "('I thought the invitation said costume party...') And he decided to go as Fidel Castro."

Castro was taller.

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FUN FACTS

True, Fidel Cadtro was 6’3”

Adolf Hitler 173 5’8 Germany

Kim Yong Ill 160 5’3 N. Korea

Vladimir Lenin 165 5’5” Russia

Josef Stalin 165 5’5 Russia

Dmitry Medvedev 163 5’4” Russia

Vladimir Putin 170 5’2”-5’5” Russia

**Strict rules dictate no one can be taller than President Putin in official photos. His bodyguards are always shorter then he. Also, Putin wears extremely tall elevator shoes which also gives him a height boost.

VIDEO: Putin wears high heels. Putin’s Napoleon complex or how to look 15 cm taller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6lHjZjYXE&t=61s

Group photos are carefully staged to make him appear larger-than-life. Example, Vladimir Putin posed with 14 women for International Woman’s Day with these women being told to squat down.

Putin does exhibit the “Napoleon complex or small man syndrome. [This syndrome is mostly attributed to people of short stature that are characterized by overly aggressive or domineering social behavior. This implies Putin’s behavior is compensatory for his subject’s physical or social shortcomings.]

BTW, President Volodymyr Zelensky is 5’7”.