10+ World Leaders Photographed While Still Young And Unaware Of Their Future Role

We've covered the young presidents of USA already, but let's broaden the scope now and take a rare glimpse at the leaders from around the world before they became the almighty God-like figures. It's utterly strange to see these people, who shaped the world we live in now, as simple teenagers with all the innocence in the world and, in most cases, cluelessness about what the future is holding for them. (h/t: vintage.es)

#1 Eighteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth of England during her time in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII where she drove and repaired heavy vehicles, 1945

#2 Young 14th Dalai Lama

#3 Vladimir Putin as a young teenager, 1966

#4 Kim Jong-il with his father, Kim Il-sung, and his mother, Kim Jong-suk in 1945

#5 Young Nelson Mandela in 1961

#6 A young Shinzo Abe, Japan's Prime Minister (bottom left) pictured with his family in 1956

#7 Young Adolf Hitler

#8 Karol Wojtyla, before he was Pope John Paul II

#9 Joseph Stalin as a young man, 1902

#10 John F. Kennedy at age 10, hair slicked back, 1927

#11 Bashar al-Assad as a kid, now the President of Syria

#12 Young Margaret Thatcher aka 'The Iron Lady', the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

#13 Young Saddam Hussein, the former President of Iraq

#14 Young Barack Obama smoking a joint

#15 Young Donald Trump in New York's Military Academy

#16 Pope Francis as a young boy

#17 Portrait of Fidel Castro in New York in 1955, during an interview

#18 Mugshot of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in 1970 when she was part of the guerrilla movement that fought against the country's military dictatorship

#19 Thin Hugo Chavez in military academy

#20 Young Bill Clinton shaking hands with President John F. Kennedy in the Rose Garden of the White House. July 24, 1963

#21 George W. Bush in baseball garb at Yale University, CA, 1964-68

#22 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1972, shaking hands with President Zalman Shazar during his time in the Israeli Defense Forces

#23 Richard Nixon is shown as a member of the Whittier College football squad in Whittier, CA, 1930s

#24 Young Nicolae Ceaușescu, the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party

#25 King Salman of Saudi Arabia at 19, in 1954

#26 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the early 1970s while doing military service