How Lee Kuan Yew Built Singapore: The World’s Most Successful Dictatorship

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, convinced his country was finished.

But what followed was one of the greatest turnarounds in modern history. In just a generation, Lee crushed corruption, forced order, and opened the island to the world—transforming it into a financial powerhouse richer than its neighbors, safer than New York, and cleaner than London.

This is the story of how Lee Kuan Yew built Singapore: the world’s most successful dictatorship.

Writer: Vlad Racovita
Editor: Santhi Christina

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