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The 11 Most Evil Men In History

The saddest thing about researching this list is realizing that I could write another list of the top 100 baddest men and still have loads of people left for a second list! The selection for this list is not based solely on the number of people they killed, but on their general actions and impact on others, or simply the brutal nature of these people. Here are the top 10 villains in history.

1. Josef Stalin

Stalin was General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. Under Stalin's leadership, Ukraine experienced a famine (Holodomor) so severe that many people considered it an act of genocide on the part of the Stalinist government. Estimates of the death toll range from 2.5 to 10 million. Famine is directly caused by political and government decisions. In addition to famine, Stalin also ordered a purge within the Soviet Union of those considered enemies of the state. In total, estimates of the total number of people murdered under Stalin range from 10 million to 60 million.
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2. Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, becoming "Führer" in 1934 until his suicide in 1945. At the end of World War II, policies of territorial conquest and subjugation Hitler's race brought death and destruction to tens of millions of people, including the genocide of some six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust. On April 30, 1945, after intense street fighting, upon discovering Soviet troops within a block or two of the Chancellery, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself and biting into a bullet. cyanide cyst.
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3. Ivan IV of Russia

Ivan IV of Russia, also known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 to 1547 and the first ruler of Russia to bear the title of Tsar. In 1570, Ivan became convinced that Novgorod's elite planned to defect to Poland, and led an army to stop them on January 2. Ivan's soldiers built walls around city ​​perimeter to prevent the city's residents from escaping. About 500 to 1000 people were rounded up by the army every day, then tortured and killed in front of Ivan and his son. In 1581, Ivan beat his pregnant daughter-in-law for wearing revealing clothes, causing a miscarriage. His son, also named Ivan, upon learning of this, engaged in a heated argument with his father, which resulted in Ivan hitting his son on the head with a sharp stick, causing his death. .

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4. Vlad The Impaler

Vlad III of Romania (also known as Vlad the Impaler) was Prince of Wallachia three times between 1448 and 1476. Vlad is best known for the legends of the extremely cruel punishments he imposed during during his reign and was the main inspiration for the vampire himself in Bram Stoker's famous novel Dracula. In Romania, he was seen by many as a prince with a deep sense of justice. His famous torture method was to spread a person's body wide open by tying the limbs to four horses, then gradually inserting a sharp stake into the body through the anus. The end of the stake is usually oiled, and care is taken that the stake is not too sharp; otherwise the victim may die too quickly from shock. Wikipedia has an article describing Vlad's cruel methods in great detail. The list of tortures he is said to have used is extensive: nailing to the head, cutting off limbs, blindfolding, strangulation, burning, cutting off the nose and ears, mutilation of genital organs (especially especially for women), shave their heads, peel their skin, or boil them alive. There are studies that suggest that in some cases, 10,000 people were impaled in 1460 alone.

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5. Pol Pot

Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979, de facto leader since mid-1975. During his time in power, Pol Pot imposed an extreme version of dictatorship. agrarian communism, where all city residents were sent to the countryside to work on collective farms and forced labor projects. The effects of slave labor, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions are estimated to have killed about 2 million Cambodians (about one-third of the population). His regime gained particular notoriety for excluding all intellectuals and other "bourgeois enemies" for murder. The Khmer Rouge carried out mass executions at sites known as the Killing Fields. The executed were buried in mass graves. To save ammunition, people often use hammers, ax handles, spades or sharpened bamboo sticks.
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6. Leopold II of Belgium

Leopold II was King of Belgium from 1865-1909. With financial support from the government, Leopold established the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken to exploit rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa, which depended on forced labor and resulted in the deaths of approximately 3 million Congolese people. The regime of the Congo Free State became one of the most notorious international scandals of the early 20th century. The area of ​​land privately owned by the King was 76 times larger than that of Belgium, and he was free to do rule as a personal fiefdom through its own army, the armed forces. Leopold's rubber pickers were tortured, chopped up and massacred until, at the turn of the century, the conscience of the Western world forced Brussels to shut down.

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7. Idi Amin Dada

Idi Amin was a military officer and president of Uganda. He seized power in a military coup in January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. His rule was characterized by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic repression, extrajudicial killings, and expulsion of Indians from Uganda. The number of people killed by his regime is unknown; Estimates range from 80,000 to 500,000 people. On 4 August 1972, Amin issued a decree deporting 60,000 Asian non-Ugandan citizens (most of whom held British passports). This was later revised to include all 80,000 Asians, excluding professionals, such as doctors, lawyers and teachers. Amin was eventually overthrown, but until his death he maintained that Uganda needed him and he never expressed remorse for the abuses of his regime.

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8. Ruhollah Khomeini

Ayatollah Khomeini was the religious leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989. During that time, he implemented Sharia Law (Islamic religious law) with an Islamic dress code enforced for both men and women. women by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other Islamist groups. Opposition to the religious rule of the clergy or Islam in general often faces harsh punishments. In a talk at Fayzieah School in Qom, on August 30, 1979, Khomeini said:

“Those who are trying to bring corruption and destruction to our country in the name of democracy will be suppressed. They are worse than the Jews of Bani-Ghorizeh, and they must be hanged. We will oppress them according to God's command and God's call to prayer.”

During the 1988 massacre of Iranian prisoners, following the Iranian People's Forough-e Javidan campaign against the Islamic Republic, Khomeini ordered judicial officials to try every Iranian political prisoner and kill those refused to repent of anti-regime activities. Many say thousands of people died quickly inside the prisons. Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri's suppressed memoir details the execution of 30,000 political activists. After 11 days in the hospital for surgery to stop the bleeding, Khomeini died of cancer on Saturday, June 4, 1989, at the age of 86.

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9. Maximilien Robespierre

Maximilien Robespierre was a leader of the French Revolution and it was his arguments that caused the revolutionary government to murder the king without trial. In addition, Robespierre was one of the main driving forces behind the reign of terror, the 10-month period after the revolution in which mass executions were carried out. The terrorist attack claimed the lives of between 18,500 and 40,000 people, with 1,900 killed last month. Of those convicted by the revolutionary court, about 8% were aristocrats, 6% were clergy, 14% were middle class, and 70% were workers or peasants accused of hoarding and draft evasion. , desertion, rebellion and other purposeful crimes. Robespierre was beheaded without trial in 1794.
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10. Attila the Barbarian

Was Zenyu of the Hunnic Empire from 434 until his death in 453. He was the leader of the Hunnic Empire that extended from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. In much of Western Europe, Attila is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and brutality. The Byzantine Empire's unsuccessful invasion of Persia was followed in 441, successfully spurring Attila to boldly invade the West. He passed through Austria and Germany, crossed the Rhine into Gaul, plundering, ravaging and destroying everything in his path with a ferocity unmatched in the history of barbarian invasions and Control those he defeated to strengthen his mighty army. Attila drowned in his own blood on his wedding night.
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11. Emperor Hirohito of Japan

Hirohito was Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989. In 1937, the Japanese army committed the war crime that is now known as the Rape of Nanjing (China's capital at that time was Nanjing). The timing of the massacre is not clearly determined, although the violence lasted for the next six weeks, until early February 1938. During the occupation of Nanjing, Japanese troops carried out many atrocities. atrocities such as rape, looting, arson, and execution of prisoners of war and civilians. Large numbers of women and children were also killed as rape and murder became more widespread. The death toll is generally considered to be between 150,000 and 300,000. This Wikipedia article contains images and descriptions of the atrocities that were committed
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