Man is a complex being, and not only at the cellular level, but also at the level of psychology. Emotions of hatred and anger give rise to cruelty, and cruelty writes scary stories.
We offer our top 10 most cruel rulers from the time of Ancient Rome to the Soviet era.
10. Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan went down in history not only as the creator and first khan of the Mongol Empire, but also as one of the most cruel tyrants in the history of government. So that you understand the degree of his ruthlessness and thirst for conquest: historians attribute Genghis Khan to responsibility for the deaths of 40 million people.
This number also includes the number of deathly tortured prisoners. Torture was common among the Mongols when molten silver was poured into the victim’s mouth and ears. Genghis Khan noted the victory over the Russian army at the Battle of Kalka with particular sophistication: he tied the princes, crushed immobilized shields and platforms from above, and then arranged a feast on an impromptu platform.
Needless to say, all related people are suffocated or crushed.
9. Go Amin
The presidents of Uganda and the Ugandan military, as well as a representative of modern dictators.
Idi Amin is known for inventing torture for his victims and devising special euphemisms for executions. For example, he could invite him to tea, meaning to feed the guest to his crocodile.
Among the victims of Idi Amin there is even one of his wives, whose dissected corpse was found in the trunk of a car.
In conclusion, I would like to note that Idi Amin shared the ideology of Adolf Hitler and was grateful to the Führer for the extermination of the Jews.
8. Caligula
Caligula was the emperor of Ancient Rome and a very perverted lover of torture. He lived for 29 years, but this is not surprising, given how many enemies the emperor made himself. Attempts to kill him were many.
Caligula loved to humiliate and watch the suffering. Since Caligula himself did not have a pleasant appearance, he hated handsome and young men. He ordered either kill or mutilate them. He humiliated Caligula's men in other ways: he raped them or raped their wives, and then he told the details at the whole court.
Regarding bullying and suffering, Caligula loved executions in central squares. He ordered the parents and relatives of the victim to be brought, and the executioner - to torture as slowly as possible. As a result, the victim was cut with a saw along the body, and the unfortunate relatives were obliged to observe everything, not even daring to close their eyes.
He loved Caligula only his horse, giving only an animal a drop of his humanity.
7. Attila
Attila was the ruler of the Huns, and for the sake of this he killed his brother. His name is still associated with cruelty and aggression, because Attila was known for his love of conquest. So all he wanted was to receive, regardless of the number of victims and the methods of killing them.
Attila’s grave has been searched for for 15 centuries, but the burial place is covered in mystery. It is only known that they buried him in an excavated grave at the bottom of a deep river in three coffins. Attila's wife was buried nearby, although the woman was alive.
6. Pol Pot
Pol Pot is a politician in Cambodia, and despite the fact that the era of his reign took several years, he took a place in this top, along with Genghis Khan and Hitler. And not just like that. During the reign of Cambodia, Pol Pot ordered the renaming of the country to Kampuchea. And this is probably the most harmless commission of the dictator.
Further, the population of entire cities was driven to the peasantry, so that only the ruling circles and the military remained in the capital.
All who supported the Pol Pot movement were called Khmer Rouge. The bulk of the party members are illiterate peasants. All people who did not support the party, Pol Pot ordered to kill. And so, more than two million people were killed, and the surviving inhabitants began to flee the country.
5. Leopold II
The Belgian king captured vast territories of Africa, and three million people in the Congo became victims of his regime: they were tortured, became slaves, or simply died. And all this for the sake of the opportunity to profit from the sale of rubber, ivory and tusks. The king of Belgium has generally said repeatedly that he loves money the most.
The entrepreneurial ruler made a fortune during his reign, however, these sums were earned from the lives of millions of Congo citizens.
4. Vlad the Impaler
The ruler of Vlad had at least two nicknames that are known to a wide range of people. This is Dracula and Tepes. The nickname “Impaler” originates in the word “count”, and all because Vlad was a great lover of public executions of innocent people precisely through the spitting. Often the corpses of the deceased were found to be bloodless, hence the rumors that Vlad Tepes was drinking the blood of his victims. And contemporaries have heard legends about the vampire Dracula.
Many stories explain Vlad’s brutality as a difficult childhood in Turkish captivity: in him, Tepes suffered many tortures and, there are suggestions that he observed the rape of his brother by the Turkish sultan.
Tepes is also known for the event called “Bloody Easter”, when he gathered all the boyars that were objectionable to him at dinner and killed him. According to historians, that night killed between 50 and 500 people.
3. Adolf Eichmann
Eichmann was a German officer and Gestapo officer. He was the one who authorized the sending of Jews to death camps. In August 1944, Adolf reported to management for the extermination of four million Jews.
He was called the man who was responsible for the final decision of the Jewish people.
2. Joseph Stalin
Soviet politician, the attitude towards which is still ambiguous. Some consider Stalin to be a wise ruler and a man thanks to whom the USSR came to victory in the Second World War. Others consider Stalin a cruel tyrant, who was rid of any inconvenient people: from the Mensheviks to brilliant cultural figures.
The years 1936-1938 are considered years of repression and executions, a day in Moscow could be shot a thousand people. The number of repressed people in these years is about 5 million.
Under Stalin, it was normal practice to prosecute late workers. All prisons were crammed with people detained for this offense.
1. Adolf Hitler
The ruler of Germany, who established the fascist regime in the country during his years of power. The man who started the Second World War when he introduced his troops into Poland in 1939. Also known for organizing mass extermination and torture of residents of the occupied territories.