Photos of the WW2 leaders as children.

Stalin will take your lunch money

He literally started it as a street thug and went on to be a hired assassin.
Expropriate* your lunch money.
Hitler will rat him out

Of course even as a child Churchill is smug

In the "Last Lion", it's clear that he was pampered very much as a child by his mother, he was sickly often, and so she doted on him. At this stage in his life, he was very much a mother's boy.
It's amazing he turned out the way he did really. He still had some of those tendencies at the end, but a lot of his characteristics were exaggerated. For example his drinking. He didn't actually drink more than 1 mixed drink a day usually, which he pulled on from his flask throughout. Any of the brandy or sipping beverages he was famous for consuming were typically non-alcoholic so he could retain his wits and make others think he was less together than he was. It was an intentional strategy, also, he still had health issues that prevented him from consuming too much alcohol. But he turned that into an advantage.
- It's honestly pretty incredible how much English propaganda survived the war. I still hear people claim English fighter pilots were orange because of all the carrots they ate to improve their night vision, which was a myth created by the English to keep the Germans from realizing they'd figured out radar.

Funny how they all have different vibes.

Stalin looks like a bully. Hitler looks like he's been bullied and is going to be a school shooter.

Many of the others look like pompous twats and/or spoilt rich kids.

Churchill was a pompous, rich, spoiled kid. But he did a good job as the war needed.
- Hirohito was a prince and Roosevelt was old money. Idk about Eisenhower but American generals historically come from well to do backgrounds.

Hitler looks like the kid which always has a runny nose and asks for games on your Smartphone.

Pretty much. He was bullied most of his life and was an intolerable dickhead. Few people liked him for who he was. He was a sociopath and learned how to manipulate people to pretend to be charismatic or charming to get what he wanted.
Which was revenge on all the people he felt wronged him.
- Surely that doesn’t describe any other political figures

Interesting that both Hitler and Stalin are looking down their noses at the camera.

That's probably reading too much into a snapshot. They're just kids here.

(But just in case, keep your eye on that little snot who does that in the yearbook)

I was going to say, maybe it’s the power of hindsight, but they both look like asshole shits and Mussolini looks like he is growing up with some serious emotional issues, maybe some hatred for women after his mother dressed him like that.

As someone who used to work with kids a lot, every last one of them look like a little shit who is about to make my day at work measurably worse.

Lol yes! Eisenhower maybe ok but not if he’s dropped off dressed like that.
Including the ones in the OP?

Hitler looks like an incel and Mussolini looks like he pooped his pants. (Edit: politeness)

Worse, pooped his pants on purpose and is proud of it!

Roosevelt is dressed like a rich kid, but his face says “don’t fuck with me”.

His face says “bitch, did I tell you you could have some of my crackerjacks?”

They all kind of look like dickheads ngl. Like that annoying kid who always breaks boundaries.

(ie. they all look very full of themselves — I guess that’s how you become a leader…)

Part of the problem may be that the convention back then was to not smile when taking a picture
Idk, it's hard to be mad at kid Mussolini. He looks like he's just real upset to be there. All the other kids look like bullies or spoiled/sheltered nepo babies, though. Turn that frown upside down down, kid.
- It would take him years, but the frown would eventually be turned upside down, under a bridge, if memory serves correctly.

Mussolini looks the same

so Hitler never changed his haircut since he was a child

what is the source for this?

one doubts that such a photo of young Stalin exists, given the poverty in which the dictator grew up.

Can't verify that one specifically, but a handful survive of his parents, as well as this photo of him from a school yearbook in 1893:
- Looks like Rishi Sunak.
I can see it labeled as a school photo of him, but haven't found any original source confirming that
One might ask oneself “well… how did I get here?”
School class picture, the priest that let Stalin and his mom stay with him to get away from Stalin's abusive dad faked a story about who Stalin's dad was so he could get in to a free school for children of church officials.

mfw I get into work and it's already a shitshow

Hitler looked like he was useless little shithead even as a kid.

Why are they using the first name for Getúlio only?

Could already make out the trouble children

truman and petan?

ikr there were a lot better choices than Getúlio.
William Lyon Mackenzie King?

Mussolini looks like he’d be a sweet, if quiet, kid but will occasionally squeeze to death a small animal because someone didn’t bring him his tendies

Young Roosevelt looked remarkably like adult Ryan Gosling.

Oh yeah!

I had to look up Getulio, which appears to be Brazil's Getulio Vargas, of whom I had vaguely heard, but knew very little about. Which made for an informative read.

It's up for debate of he belongs in this life-up, instead of Mao, Pinochet, Franco or even Guevara or the north Koreans, but I'm not sure how available the childhood pictures of those are.

TIL about the Brazilian Expeditionary Force. 25k soldiers is far more significant than I expected!

Oddly, De Gaulle reminds me of a short-haired Anne Hathaway. I think it’s in the eyes.

It’s odd that they all have pictures as kids. It like their parent brought them up into their future roles.. hmmm..