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Ataturk has some of the stock features of a modern dictator (marathon table-talk before a tired but terrified court, a long-unburied, venerated corpse), except the ascetic postures. A well-tailored womanizer addicted to nightlife, whose liver eventually gave out. A British diplomat described how a hungover Ataturk, awakened in the Park Hotel by a muezzin call, had the mosque torn down. Lenin played by Errol Flynn.