Documentaries on the dark side of the great conquerors/butchers of history.

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This thread is to remind us of the darker side,the sober realities of some of history's 'greatest' characters.

Alexander the annihilator

Attilla the Hun,the psychopath pillager

Caligula the sadist

Genghis Khan the destroyer

Nero the mad

Caesar,the power hungry butcher.

Some other characters -

Discovery Civilisation The Most Evil Men in History Adolf Hitler - YouTube

Adolf hitler,fuehrer of nazi germany

The Most Evil Men in History - Francisco Pizarro - YouTube

Francisco Pizarro,spanish conquistador -exterminator of the incas

The Most Evil Men in History Ivan the Terrible XviD] - YouTube

Ivan the terrible,sadistic czar of muscowy.

The Most Evil Men in History - Idi Amin - YouTube

Idi amin,butcher tyrant of uganda.

 

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History's Bad Boys - Used to come in History Channel long back. Thanks for digging it up.

 

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Rasputin,mad cultist and destroyer of the russian empire.

Vlad the impaler - Implied.

Mao Zedong

Stalin

Declassified - Ayatollah Khomeini - YouTube

Ayatollah khomieni,the mad mullah

The Most Evil Men in History - Pol Pot - YouTube

Pol pot,tyrant of cambodia

Hitler's Henchmen - The Executioner - Heinrich Himmler - YouTube

Himmler,hitler's executioner

Reinhard Heydrich - The God of Death - YouTube

Rheinhard heydrich,architect of death.

 

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History's Bad Boys - Used to come in History Channel long back. Thanks for digging it up.

I read about Alexander's butchering of ancient inhabitants of Multan town when he was passing through Indus river.

 

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Underlying message-Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

 

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Tamerlane is missing.

 

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Torquemada,monster of the spanish inquisition.

 

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Leopold 2 of belgium.
He ruled the Congo Free State, which was a private project, from 1885 to 1908. The Congo Free State was 76 times larger than Belgium. He is considered one of the greatest liars of all time because he fooled the whole world that he was helping the Congo and the world believed him. Instead he turned the Congo into a country ruled by force labor. He was free to rule the Congo Free State as a personal domain. Leopold ruled about 20 million Congolese. Under his administration, the Congo Free State was subject to a terror regime. The Congo Free State also became one of the most infamous international scandals of the turn of the century. His men tortured, maimed, and slaughtered millions of Congolese. Congolese were killed if they did not bring enough rubber. Hundreds of thousands of people had their hands, legs, feet, arms, heads, ears, and noses cut off. Many villages were burned and the Natives forced to flee into the jungle. Leopold’s men raped, flogged and eat the natives. They slaughtered hundreds of thousands of children. More than 500,000 died from various diseases. A few million died of starvation. Leopold killed around 10 million Congolese (or 50% of the Congo’s population). Before Leopold acquired The Congo Free State, most African countries were free countries, but within 30 years after Leopold acquired the Congo Free State, all but 2 African countries were taken by European countries. He did all of this just to get more money. Leopold died in 1909.

Talat Pasha.
He was the Grand Vizier of the Sultan in the Ottoman empire from 1917 to 1918. In 1915, Talat declared an order to wipe out the Armenian race. People were whipped, tortured, robbed, raped and killed. All of the Armenians were forced into concentration camps. People were overloaded with supplies and forced to trudge miles with no food and they were killed if they couldn’t continue. People were naked when they marched. The whole male population of Angora was exterminated. Many were forced to rape family members. People were killed by bayonets, clubs, axes, hammers, spades, scythes, and saws. Many had their private parts and sexual organs cut off. Tens of thousands were burned, drowned, poisoned, dismembered, crucified, boiled and beaten to death. Out of the population of 2.5 million Armenians, 1 to 1.5 million people were killed. Talat was assonated in 1921 by a Armenian assassination squad.

 

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Josef mengle nazi doctor death.

Adolf eichmann,exterminator of the final solution

Kim-il jong North korea.

 

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Elizabeth bathory-countess of blood.

Add saddam hussein and Muammar gaddafi.

 

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Underlying message-Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Good thread, But will take time to see these one by one. One per week!!

 

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Cromwell is missing. As well as those Popes who burned witches and heretics and started crusades.
In defense of Ivan the Formidable ( more correct translation of the title "Грозный") I must to say that he executed ten times less people in 30 years then in France were killed for only one night of St. Bartholomew (same century).

 

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Napoleon Bonaparte and pol pot were evil.

 

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Napoleon Bonaparte and pol pot were evil.

Napoleon was megalomaniacial but didn't commit genocide as such.He never wiped out cities like alexander or massacred whole populations like caesar or genghis.He did once shoot turkish POWs in the egyptian campaign justifying it by his logistics situation.He had backward ideas on the role of women.
He also dreamt of world conquest and didn't give a damn how many soldiers died in the way of it.His all consuming ambition at the price of the manhood of europe is his greatest flaw.But events of genocide on the civilian populations is missing.His bloodthirst is limited to military matters.

 

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Napoleon was megalomaniacial but didn't commit genocide as such.He never wiped out cities like alexander or massacred whole populations like caesar or genghis.He did once shoot turkish POWs in the egyptian campaign justifying it by his logistics situation.He had backward ideas on the role of women.
He also dreamt of world conquest and didn't give a damn how many soldiers died in the way of it.His all consuming ambition at the price of the manhood of europe is his greatest flaw.But events of genocide on the civilian populations is missing.His bloodthirst is limited to military matters.

The world views him as a dictator and a megalomaniac but we see him as evil because he tried to restore slavery