It was not without a reason that people labelled North Korea's Kim Jong-il 'crazy'. The man built an entire city Kijong- Dong in the 1950s that was designed only for propaganda, till date it has no residents. He reportedly spent £350,000 a year on cognac and travelled with a squad of beautiful women known as the Pleasure Squad. But he wasn't the only dictator with his eccentricities, CS tell you about some other noted cases:

Saparmurat Niyazov, the president of Turkmenistan from November 1990 to December 2006, was regarded as one of the world's most regressive dictators. Under his regime, he changed the word bread to Gurbansoltan, which was the name of his mother, suggesting that one of his fantasies was to see his mother eaten alive by poor people. Niyazov outlawed chewing tobacco on Turkmenistan soil. He suggested that people chew on bones, which he argued would strengthen their teeth. How they’d procure the bones was left to the imagination of the population