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In 1965, Singapore was a slum-ridden island with no water, no army, and no future. Expelled from Malaysia, its new leader Lee Kuan Yew broke down on live TV, co…
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This video is amazing
I lived through those times. For me. the most important factor for Singapore's success was they declared zero tolerance on corrutption from day 1. China learned from that. Malaysia, just a bridge away, blessed with abundance of natural resources is the other group in this paired t-test.
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Insignificant Port, are you absolutely mad, Singapore has never been an insignificant port. You are talking out your hat.
A slum, Singapore was a major port for years before independence. Not everybody lived in the lap of luxury for sure, but it was no way near being a slum.
Matt Walsh's video regarding the jury system in America brought me here. This man should be mentioned and taught in EVERY history class in America.
What he achieved with Singapore is truly remarkable. Turning a country with so little into one of the world’s greatest success stories is an incredible legacy
I was a Singapore citizen for 22 years. Now at age 75 l am living in lndia after living in Bahrain for 37 years. I still love Singapore and Mr Lee Kuan Yew .All my feelings are for this beautiful island. Long live Singapura.
He’s the best leader of all time💕😘
In Singapore today, there is NOT a road, building, landmark, parks, statue …nothing of any human vestige of any sort bearing his name. The island of Singapore is Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy.
Gives me so much thought about Zambia. How a country whose currency was better than a pound 50 years ago, has gotten to slams. <br>I hope our current president stays longer to transform the country.
Sorry which democracy achieved this btw?
I guess lee would've kicked ass if he played Age of Empires games....😂❤😊
Dictatorship doesn't exist it's only a term invented by the west to prevent Asia and Africa from developing by causing conflicts between them.....there are still many African and Asian countries that are fighting up to today and such countries will never develop
Dictator 😂😂😂
I watched his interview just a while ago and I'm so fascinated that very often people who raised countries from ashes are referred as dictators but the ones who are leading their countries to ruin on directives of foreign influence are referred as democratic leaders... sad story of the "modern" society.
Singapore will not produce another Lee Kuan Yew. Our circumstances and environment have changed. A prime Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore today will be powerful, but probably not have the same impact as the 60s. And I'm sure in his afterlife, he'll rather a Singapore today that doesn't need him like we did back then.<br><br>Gone back never forgotten.
Only a dictator can do this, a democratically elected head of state would not have the iron
This is the man that inspires Nayib Bukele president, president of El Salvador. Look how far the country is coming along, wish Honduras had a leader like them
Gratest goodbye i think
Great video
"The dictator that cares about his people"
GOD BLESS SINGAPORE 🇸🇬 🙏 ❤
Why do Muslims have to ruin quite literally everything
There is a reason India🇮🇳 and China🇨🇳 never fights!! Each war after 1967 can easily cost millions of casualties!! Australia🇦🇺is a VERY big and resourceful country yet!! I see the Chinese🇨🇳 and Indians working the hardest!! They also look after their children and elderly!! I always TELL my children 👶you can either have Dubai money or Singapore🇸🇬money!! my pick take Singapore Chinese HARD WORK 😓with little bit of Australian🇦🇺mineral resources on top ……… you can give Singapore🇸🇬to GAZA residents and it will become a failed-state within one generation?? It’s never the country …. it’s the people 🇮🇳🇨🇳 ………………..
Yes he is a dictator, the perfect dictator the world really need. Because no matter left or right, democracy or communism, nothing ever fucking works if your leaders are selfish and corrupt and incompetent and do not care about anything except for their inner circle of rich and powerful friends
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If LKY was a dictator, then Africa needs leaders like him
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Ewwww Singapore army was trained my Israelites. I prefer UAE 🇦🇪 then. Moved my money here
Success is always rught
so much better than Trump the con man
South African here. Would any Singaporean be willing to have a call with me? I'm interested to learn more about your policies, as I'd like to see how they could be implemented in my own country.
Ya, the usual deception.<br>Before LKY a fishing village.<br>How do British launch Opium War a whole century earlier?
Unity starts from the top.
Meanwhile the country they broke away from which is Malaysia has been suffering from severe corruption for the last 60 years and show no signs of stopping. These are the Muslims that pray 5 times a day yet have no issue stealing billions.
Maybe the first dictator who is not corrupt
One word, meritocracy
A dictator in the true Roman sense of the word. The man tasked with fixing the crisis and preserving the nation by any means necessary.
Greatest leader of all time
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH4cFOB2V5c&t=708">11:48</a> - He Warns Africa!! "Corruption will destroy you". Indeed it has for long decades😢
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Modi should learn from LKY not to use religion ad a way to divide the nation if he wants to become a dictator be like LKY
Most politicans don't reall care about their ppl tho
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Here, Indians are still emotional and believing. Wake up Indians, become rational.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH4cFOB2V5c&t=758">12:38</a>?
Small dick trying to compete with Australia
All you need to change a country is a one dedicated leader. Thank you Lee Kuan Yew!
This is very interesting
Damn i wish someone in india rises up for the nation like lee.
Developing countries need leaders that the West would cry about and call "dictator" or "authoritarian". That's the hard truth. As Deng Xiaoping said, "development is the hard truth." Let the libbed up, West worshiping Asians cry that you're being too heavy-handed. What they don't know is that all modern "democracies" during their periods of rapid development and industrialization were all authoritarian.
Love "cleanliness and greenery become propaganda".
Benda paling betul yang Malaya pernah buat adalah tendang Singapura keluar dari Persekutuan Tanah Melayu. Kalau Singapura masih dalam Malaysia, sah-sah orang Melayu dah hilang semua hak keistimewaan, pastu hidup miskin dan merana
He was a great leader
Corruption destroyed Africa
2 M Singaporeans did not line the street to say goodbye to a dictator, but to their deeply loved nation's founder, elected prime minister and MP of many terms. It is not China or Russia, but Singaore. <a href="UCkszU2WH9gy1mb0dV-11UJg/jPgfY5j2IIud29sP3ZeA4Ag"></a>
His warnings are so real 🤯🤯.
We have a dictator museveni and his son muhoozi in Uganda killing ugandans and abduction and torture but the country is very poor because of rotten government
Son does mistake,In East it's proved from J.Nehru to LKY that sons should not me made successor!<br>.But I don't have comment on UK Royals!
Only good leaders can cry for nation
NO MATTER WAT..TODAY SINGAPOREAN LIVE HAPPILY ..WITOUT FEAR
Why did LKY always copy Yul Brynner's accent (to the point where it became second nature) when speaking in English?
I'm so happy for them because they are from slum to the richest countries.<br>But now in PH until this day we are in poor and corrupt govt official , how i wish we had like this leader ASAP. all my country men and women Wishes and hoping for good governance and transparency like singapore.
Deng Xiaoping of China took lessons from Singapore & his friend Lee Kuan Yew & look how China developed especially a collection of small fishing villages and farming communities of Shenzhen into China's Silicon Valley 🤔 🤭 🤣 😆 👏 😁 🤟<br>Let's not even talk about the tons of other incredible Cities in China like Chongqing etc... 😲 😳 😮
He never said that only smart women should reproduce and uneducated women should sterilise themselves..<br><br>In the 80s I believe there were university educated women who were having trouble finding husbands because men preferred to marry women less educated than them, so he said that intelligence is mainly based on genetics and encouraged men to marry educated women. There was a fair bit of backlash.. but as always, he was correct.
Interesting what he said about Australia,why do the buy our food,houses farming land we are the white trash of Asia, hahaha
🇵🇭, when? 😢
He was a real man lol
This is the 3rd video I've seen claiming Singapore is a Dictatorship, even though it's actually not.
An eye opener for Papua New Guinea up coming leaders..
Did he borrow <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH4cFOB2V5c&t=505">8:25</a> a lot during this period
Srilanka also now have AKD...
Park Chung Hee of Singapore.
We need this for Kenya <br>God help us
Lol the west easily calls some countries' leaders dictator
He did what worked for them. He did not follow the rules books. China is doing same. Good it succeeded.
On the other hand, Bangladesh still searching its first righteous hearted leader😢<br>May Allah SWT grant us the leader soon
dictatorship is insulting
I wish Africa, particularly Nigeria would listen to Mr Lee’s advise
Unfree authoritarian state that frankly is boring as hell.
Salute to Mr. Lee 🫡🩵💛♥️<br>Sana ganito pamumuno ng nakatataas na opisyal dito sa Pilipinas. May disiplina. Hindi yung halos pang personal na issue lang nila pinaguusapan hayyy nako hahaha
This is wrong! Lee Kuan Yew founded Singapore in 1819! He also literally pushed the island from Batam to the tip of the Malayan peninsula and summoned every ship to come over
Did the commentator just say "Safer than New York?" :D
Singapore under Lee KY wasn't a dictatorship. What Singapore had was a top down system but it was a meritocracy (and it still is).<br>“We have a practical people whose culture tells them that contention for the sake of contention leads to disaster. I have said this on many a previous occasion; that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75 per cent Indians, 15 per cent Malays and the rest Chinese, it would not have worked. Because they believe in the politics of contention, of opposition. But because the culture was such that the populace sought a practical way out of their difficulties, therefore it has worked.” LKY, 1985 parliament speech.<br>Such a system only works in a society in which the majority of its people is Chinese or being heavily influenced by Confucian belief.
Lee Kuan Yew proved himself to be reliable, and he is not afraid to show his people that yes, he is authoritarian and rules with an iron fist. Basically saying "Yes, I am like this, do you want me or not?"...and hordes of people threw their lots behind him. And they succeeded! Its like your father telling you "Yes, I will scold and even cane you. Do you accept me as your father?" And the children all ran forward. And they thrived!!! Because they saw the LOVE in his eyes.
Meanwhile we have everything in Africa.... And the African leaders are less than humans
Philippines needs a Lee Kuan Yu asap! The corruption in the Philippines is beyond comprehension!
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH4cFOB2V5c&t=116">1:56</a> wtf you mean "comeback" as if they used to be better????
KAWAY KAWAY PINAS!!!!
Cambodia ❤❤❤ Singapore
ECONOMYS.
Kenya needs leadership like this😢
He is not a DICTATOR.. He is a LEADER.. Every Singaporean have their own right and well protected.. Majulah Singapore❤🇸🇬
If only we had politicians like him in Greece.
i like your video very match
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH4cFOB2V5c&t=893">14:53</a> Democratically elected leader is still Dictator, Kudos! :)
Safer than New York Isnt some kind of hard thing to achieve 😂 and so is being cleaner than London. <br>Should’ve gave a better example to showcase how clean and safe Singapore is
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