Here is a portrait of five women who shared the intimacy and sometimes the ideologies of the most famous dictators in history ... embodying a modern image in a tightly controlled regime.

Behind every great man is a great woman, as they say. But who stands behind the world's dictators? In good times and in bad, the ladies of the Dictators' Wives Club sure put up with a lot ...

Behind every great man is a great woman, as they say. But who stands behind the world's dictators? In good times and in bad, the ladies of the Dictators' Wives Club sure put up with a lot ...