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My dad worked with a man who fled with his family from Cambodia during Pol Pot's regime. He was the sweetest man. I can't even imagine going through that.
Space Cadet, I'm so sorry for the suffering for ALL the people in Africa. What humanity has done to itself since the beginning of time, how can there be a God?
@@MsMaryPatricia believing that both hell, heaven, the absurd devil who betrayed the almighty God, and God himself. Anyone not believing that Jesus Christ wasn’t, Real well I got bad news or should I say good news :) ....he clearly was a Historical figure they’re just not happy with the fact that They know Jesus Christ Exsisted even All Historians agree the ones not accepting that fact aren’t a Historian though you choose absurd or choose truth and embellish yourself in false words. Some atheists believe that a Religion has caused most wars when yet again clearly not.
@@niteriderband4713 The people don't rise up, for one reason, that by the time the tyrant is revealed to be a tyrant, showing his true colors, he had already disarmed the populace, usually under the purpose to 'make society safer'. That's why America's founding fathers mad the 2nd Amendment, the purpose of which is not for hunting weapons but weapons to keep the government from becoming tyrannical.
What blows my mind is how many of these were in recent history. When I think of cruel rulers I think medieval but Pol Pot and Edi Amin were so very recent. It's crazy and heartbreaking.
Most medieval rulers don't have the resources to do really evil things. Also most of them were very self-absorbed so doing atrocities was something they had little interest in.
@Chris Goodayle Two choices: 1. The brutal history of mankind indicates there's no God. 2. In spite of the brutal history, the world being much better today than in the past indicates divine existence.
About Timur's casket: there is another story of it having been opened in October 1740, as Nader Shah wanted the jade tombstone for himself. In transit from Samarkand to Mashhad it broke in two, and when Nader finally saw it, he ordered it returned to its rightful place.
In order to be be historicaly accurate, always remember that the US supported the Khmer Rouge's claim to be the representatives of Cambodia at the UN due to their anti-Vietnamese stance.
That’s true not so much because of Viet. Nam , but our diplomatic move to open Red China as counter force to the Soviet Union allied us with them Viet Nam was an ally of the Soviet Union and actually had a border war with China as well as invading Cambodia who was allied with China. Very strange time in US History influenced by Henry Kissinger. The Soviet Union was the perceived threat which caused us to sell our souls.
China also supported Kmer Rouge and don't act like the Vietcong were angels they slaughtered many south Vietnamese. The situation of them liberating Cambodia is no different than the Nazis liberating parts of the Soviet Union or vice versa. Simply trading one evil for another.
I can't argue with any of those. We are still dealing with the messes that they left behind, and I think that King Leopold's was & is the worst. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire, is so divided and brutalized by bloodthirsty warlords that it will never be right, not in my lifetime or yours.
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Exactly, but the "" Catholic Church " will cont: to prayed and offered Mass for this" Cruelest depraved Monster" He belong to the Bottomless HELL for all eternity.
It is violent and divided because the local tribes are happy to kill each other for personal gain, who do you think made up the overwhelming bulk of the colonial army? Ill give you a clue it was not Europeans.
If Leopold had never done what he did and let Belgium run a normal colony on, say, the British or French model, Congo would still be the mess it is now. The key issue as in so many other places in Africa, the Mideast, South Asia, and elsewhere is that the states there are artificial, with no common ethnicity, language, or national identity. Their colonial-drawn borders slice through the homelands of people who would prefer to live together, and loop together peoples who would prefer to live apart. This produces endless ethno national rivalry and warfare.
actualy it is only coincidence..if his tomb was opened and hitler RISED to power, and then commit sucide shortly after he was reburied...then i will give credit to that propercy.
@@bigtechdicktators6704 One version of that quotes the curse as "He who opens this tomb lets loose upon his land the curse of terrible war" And it was in June 1941 when Soviet scientists were inside Timur's tomb.
@@Uimavalvoja the difference is picking only 5 out of many of the cruelest rulers in history instead of labelling them the top 5 cruelest rulers in history. I hope that makes sense.
I don't think you can have a list of evil rulers without adding Caligula. He is a candidate for the cruelest in history. But you're right. There are just so many to choose from.
Who agrees about putting Genghis Khan? He killed 40 million people. Even Taimur is stated to have been inspired by him. Kim il sung too deserves this place
@Wuhan Virus Caligula was raised in captivity, had to watch his mother killed and basically was raised surrounded by cruelty. He did mostly right by the people. When his soldiers refused to cross the channel to Britannia, he didn't decimate them for subordination, but made them collect shells at the beach. He didn't take kindly the ambitions of the Senate.
A good list! I never knew about the queen of Madagascar and I learned some things about the others. Caligula and Nero don't seem very bad by comparison. Thanks!
The documentary made a lot of error regarding the queen of Madagascar (Ranavalaona 1st). I am from Madagascar and have a good Knowledge of our history, but the way how the west see this queen is completely wrong. Yes, she were against christianism and killed some people (as too many queens and kings of her Generation) but was not too cruel. Fired Christian missionaries reported her differently from the reality (a matter of positionality). By the way, why the president/Government of South Africa doesn't appear among the list given the apartheid and free murders that happened there?
@@andri5169 Trial by poison (7:44) seems not only cruel but stupid. So she was stupid, but maybe not as cruel as some other rulers. Don't take it personally. It's not a criticism of the people of Madagascar. There have been thousands of stupid and cruel rulers all over the world, throughout history. This video only examines 5.
I had a book titled "The Great Thoughts" the entire book was short quotes from historic figures. One of Pol Pots quotes read, "I will kill one of your men, and you will kill 1,000 of mine and in the end, it will be you who tire of it first"
I already knew about Leopold. If you only want power and money, you can't have any of it. People who desire power to do whatever they please are doomed to fail in that quest. It brings them only their own deaths and downfall
Your video just randomly popped up in my suggested videos and only after seeing you answer comments here I realized that you only have close to 900 subscribers. Great video man, very well narrated and well informed. Only thing, there is already a top5 unknown, so yea, bit of a name-fail right there.
Great video. I enjoyed it. Here's time stamp links for everyone. 1) @0:25 Pol Pot Cambodia (1976-1979) 2) @3:33 Timor the Great, Timor Empire (1370 - 1405) 3) @6:04 Queen Ranavalona I , Madagascar (1828-1861) 4) @8:38 King Leopold II, Belgium (1865-1909) 5) @11:52 Idi Amin, Uganda (1971-1979)
LEOPOLD II is the serial Killer of Belgium.""" DANTE """would have had problem in what circle of Hell to placed this MONSTER" and yet not one of the so called Royal family has denounced him. "".""HELL is too Good for this" DEPRAVED Killer"
@Thor Thirty Nine Heaven and Hell is spritual,they say the eyes are the windows to your soul so we have a soul. I would like to think there is both. They call it Heaven because it is beautiful but there is nothing but space up there that goes on and on. They call it hell because this is what we're living,but if you dig in the ground you would end in the core of the earth. Digging further you end up in China. There is a Jahovah and Satan.
The cruelest rulers are the ones that you use in class in where they have small indentations at the sides and you can't draw a straight line because of the indentations. F*ck !
Nicely done. I love the detail you go into. Only 5 but all with a good amount of time to focus on each of those 5. I'm subbing. Also, you have a very nice voice for announcing. Clearly spoken and easily understood. I join others with surpise you are such a small channel so far.
How many people were killed by Britons in North America, Australia, Africa, New Zealand and Asia? How many people were killed by Spanish in North, South and Latin America? How many people were killed by Portuguese in South America? How many people were killed by French in South America and Africa? Etc..., etc... All civilizations arise from killing.
History is unfortunately written by the victors. The U.S. has many war criminals who will go without trial. Trump, Obama, Bush, etc. all war criminals.
Is that want it’s called civilisation, the biggest atrocities in history is going on now there done in slaughter houses , in the uk alone we murder over 1 billion land animals with out mercy ,each year we even gas pigs to death , approximately 80 billion die in these animal death camps throughout the world , it’s genocide, because there not human has no baring , there innocent victims of oppression and exploitation, I’ve lived meat free 45 years and vegan 30 years , and I’m 66 and fit , it’s said people should have a choice , and I agree the choice is do you live humanly with empathy or not , animals have emotions like us , there sentient they grieve and bond , next time you eat flesh of another being ,think of this that animal suffered for you , it’s ok running down cruel dictators, but as soon as you buy animal products your a dictator too , go vegan it’s good for mind body and souls 🙏✌️💖🌱x ps watch Earthlings on TH-cam , be prepared for a shock ,
@Alfons Falkhayn no so called blacks in Madagascar, totally wrong and the pruff is very easy to find. The island was much larger than that and when have so called white people ever tell the truth about so called black people history? Never!
Nuon Chea - brother number 2 - stood aside for the leadership of the Rouge Khmer in favour of Pol Pot, who he eventually accused of being too soft. Nuon Chea was the mastermind behind Khmer Rouge policy ruthlessly enforcing orders to eliminate the middle classes, including the execution of Western hostages shortly before the Vietnamese invaded. The method of execution was often brutal and primitive.11 Westerners are believed to have met their fate in Tuol Sleng S-21.
Knowledge of these recent atrocious leaders should be known. We forget so quickly dictators are always in the making. Idolizing and apologizing for authoritarians needs to cease
How come he's been making these videos for years, and millions of people regularly watch them, yet people still don't understand that his lists are of more obscure/lesser known aspects of history? Why in every video are the comments full of "Stalin killed people he should be on the list" or "the Battle of the Somme should be on the list"? The channel is literally called Unknown5. Surely so many people cannot be so stupid for so long?
@@behindyou3689 That's beyond the point. They're still videos about lesser known aspects of history. Stalin is not one of those aspects. The Somme was reference to his videos about battles and warfare, how the same happens with comments on those videos.
@@behindyou3689 The channel is about the lesser known aspects of history. That's pretty obvious. How many people Stalin killed is irrelevant because he's pretty well known. Yes I know - it was a reference to other videos of his, like I said.
I couldn't be able to go and experience it, even if I wanted to. The first is financial difficulties and the second I would feel so much pain over the overwhelming negative energy those places have. :~( I can't even go to cemeteries for long due to the energy they have.I do love them for their Democratic representation, but they still have vibes that something isn't right.
Slave: "Every day we're collecting rubber from plants. It's backbreaking work and the sap gets on everything. It's put me in a state of depression." Slaveowner: (patting him on his back) "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll snap back."
Andrew Jackson. Ronald Reagan. The Bush Crime family. Ferdinand Marcos. Augusto Pinochet. The Shah of Iran. Josef Stalin. But I'd like to see more on the American Holocaust and industrialists.
@Bgsleo 1. Kabir was the fault of an idiotic French admiral. 2. Churchill was just a journalist in the 2nd Boer War, not in a leadership position. 3. The poision gas he was referring to when he recomended its use in places like Iran was non lethal tear gas. 4. Yes he ordered a strategic bombing campaign in WW2, like literally everyone else in the war. 5. True that the British government didnt manage the relief for the Bengal Famine, but it wasnt a deliberate policy of starvation like you're implying
You have to discuss criterias used: Relative contemporary laws, behaviours and values? Period? Numbers affected? Religious and cultural support? Arbitrary cruelty? Imaginative cruelty? Sanity? Delegation? Insight? 'Justification' (convention)?
Drake Brown even tho Mao is responsible for the cultural revolution (amongst other killer campaigns lol )which killed so many, he was also seen as a hero to many who lived in China during those times. I don’t think he was as evil as Hitler or Stalin... not even close. His plan and vision wasn’t meant to be so evil; he just had zero tolerance for dissidence. But Hitler and Stalin? Nah, those two were directly evil and they knew it. They meant to be evil overtly and they wanted everyone to know it. More Hitler than Stalin though, bc you can argue Stalin and Mao were similar in terms of what they wanted for their respective territories. They were just adamant on what they wanted and how they wanted their subjects to act. If their subjects defied him, he would make examples out of them. But Hitler just killed people bc he hated them. I don’t think Stalin or Mao hated their people. I actually feel they loved their loyal subjects/citizens (w.e u wanna call them lol). Hitler hated Jews and the “others” and stopped at nothing to have them murdered. That’s what sets him apart from his counterparts. But yea going back to ur post, I think this youtuber def thought those 3 were too obvious. I know Hitler n Satan, I mean Stalin were too obvious. Not many people know Mao. But for those who do, even him, too obvious.
I consider eg Churchill worse than Stalin. So maybe obvious to an American. And you just put Hitler in there to make it believable, while he was your ally as well as all western Europes ally
I wasn't a cruel ruler by these standards, most people I killed or imprisoned were criminals and traitors, besides, 4 mil "victims" with 648,000 killed hardly makes this list
10:44 reminds me of this poem from the early 20th century: "Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost, Burning in Hell for his hand-maimed host. Hear how the demons chuckle and yell, Cutting his hands off, down in Hell." Vachel Lindsay
Other mentions: Vlad Dracul, Countess Bathory, Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan (if you mentioned Tamerlane, they belong), Antiochus 4 Epiphanes, and Mao Tse Tung.
This Brit narrator failed to mention fellow Brit who was adviser and driving force behind cruelty of Idi Amin. His first name was Bob. He lived unmolested, life full of luxury in U.K. till he died!
Being burned alive was the penalty for arson; considerable evidence has emerged to suggest that Nero wasn't wrong to blame Christians for the 64 AD fire.
That certainly is possible. Rome had many enemies and like Europe today, those enemies were able to sneak across borders and wreak havoc. Before Constantine, Roman Emperors and Rome in general looked at Christians as another version of Jews. In fact they made little distinction between the two in Caligula's time. It was very popular in those days in Rome to blame Jews for nearly everything but over time that shifted to blaming Christians for everything that went wrong. Occasionally that blame may very well have been well placed.
Nero, Caliguala, Cecil J Rhodes, Toquemada, Ivan the Terrible, Talaat Pasha, Bloody Mary, Paul Kagame (Idi Amin lol), Mao, Stalin, Muhamed I, Pope Nicoals V, Fransisco Pizzaro, Queen Victoria ...etc etc
@@DD8081 No matter the race, if you kick out those who can competently run a business and replace them with those who can't, the results would be the same.
Y’all are funny blaming people for wanting their land back. Maybe if the entire continent wasn’t swept of its natural resources and people, they could’ve developed at a normal rate. But you guys are right, white people really did a lot for Africa in general. Shit on it and left for everyone to deal with the aftermath.
tone deaf duck ours has always been a mixed economy with the mix favoring capitalism. As to BG’s post, the ONLY successful experiments with collectives have been the kibbutzim in Israel and even they’re required to deal with the rest of the state in order to thrive. They also lose members annually.
@@HotVoodooWitch No, true capitalism is when whoever delivers the best bang for the buck gets ahead. In the American system, large corporations use their power and money to cheat. That's corruption, not capitalism. Democratic socialist countries have the happiest people on Earth. It does work. Obviously, the filthy rich oppose it, but why would you?
Good plan, then watch your friends and family horribly tortured to death in front of you by their henchman and heirs. There is a reason they stay in power it's called terror. A word that is often used by people who will never experience it.
bluedick321 They'll probably die anyway! Cruel leaders are of nihilistic nature, they want everything destroyed and everyone killed. Look at hitler, stalin, mao, assad, musollini............ All they leave behind is a trail of catastrophe and death. Be a hero not a coward. What is friends and family in comparison to countries destroyed?
@@bluedick321 Not true. If people tend to choose survival over heroism, there wouldn't be any soldiers fighting for Freedom and there wouldn't be any Doctors and Nurses fighting against covid-19. Did you know that there were 44 assassination attempts against evil hitler? None of them succeeded. The assassins/freedom fighters were captured, tortured, executed and so did their families and associates. But think if one of them had succeeded, how many millions of lives they would have saved! People put their lives in grave danger every day for the good of Humanity, we just don't notice it. Doctors Without Borders, Nuclear workers, Astronauts ............ It's ok if you or I are not one of these people but remember that you are not born a Hero, you become one! Who's to say that if someone was facing danger, you wouldn't step in to save them?
Most of his acts were to get rid of the criminals in his country or the ottomans who tried to invade his country. During his reign the criminal acts decreased and almost disappeared
@@escapistfromhell1543 Thank you indeed, your point well taken. I would merely add that although Vlad is believed to have killed approximately 80,000 people, his draconian rule, and more so, the methods he employed, especially the impaling on stakes, were cruel in the extreme. I hope to see more great videos like this one !
@@HartfordHD125 most of the people today that know about Vlad the impaler know about his cruelty and the stories that point it out and less about his good deeds and that is mostly because of Bram Stocker's book Dracula. But his book is based on the stories that he found being spread out at that time as a remaing part from the lies the boyard spread during Dracula's reign to scare people and to paint him as a vile person due to their own hate against him and what he was doing. It's easier to find stories about his cruelty than it is to find proof about their own deeds and their own greed. Those same boyards who presented him as a villain were the same greedy bastards who betrayed him and in the end kill him. That's what people of our days don't know. If Vlad the impaler know about the modern state of our country he would be rolling in his grave of fury and sadness bc he isn't around to take care of all the greedy and criminal politicians that rupe our country, politicians who try to make bribary and sexual assault a legal issue not punishable
What! No Vlad the Impaler! He worked all the old, poor and sick people in his kingdom to death, impaled his enemies on stakes and drank human blood. He's the origin of the Dracula myth.
"...even by the standards of that days" - what is this supposed to mean?? I doubt very much, that the standards of that days in comparison with those of today, were any cruler!
Pol Pot should have been way higher. He's the one that belongs in this list in modern times. Idi Amin has nothing on guys like Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. A couple of Roman emperors like Nero and Caligula could have made the list, and some popes as well, like Innocent IV, the dude with the ironic name who introduced the world to inquisision torture.
Yes! The Roman Catholic Church murdered over 500 million Christians, Jews, and Catholics between 1095-1800. The Popes and their Inquisition squads were some of the most horrific torturers and killers to ever live.
@Starseedspirit Nero was a domonic, sick, murderer. He used to burn Christians alive for refusing to bow to him and worship him. I'll bet he knows he's not God now. As Slayer says: Hell Awaits!
@mike force You need to read a correct, unrevised history book, mate. The Vatican murdered over 500 million people throughout much of Europe from 1095-1800. Whether you like it or not, it is proved fact.
@mike force Mike you idiot ass! The murder of 500 million people took place over the time period of 1095-1800. That's a 705 year long period in which they accomplished killing 500 million people. This is not my opinion, this is verified historical fact. Did you even truly read my comment? Can you even understand English? You have an IQ lower than Adriana Grande's!! And your Roman Catholic Church is Satan's counterfeit version of true Biblical Christianity. Good luck trying to explain to King Jesus how your good works allow you entrance into Heaven!
This makes me question how evil a human can get. The brain is a very complex organ and the scariest part of all is that no human personality is alike. There’s 7 billion different personalities on this planet, some are evil and some are good.. there could be a hitler walking among us and we don’t even know it. This is deep shit. Alright I’ll stop smoking weed now lol.
Interesting choices. Some of them I had never heard of before. It's sort of weird to make a list of the most cruel when there are so many to choose from (unfortunately). The one's your mentioned were indeed horrible. I guess I would have to nominate Hitler, Stalin and Mao just do to the sheer numbers if nothing else. I am sure there are probably thousands in history who would be eligible for this list and thankfully I don't know their names. Cruelty is a common human theme anytime anyone has power over someone else.
I know. It's amazing the CIA wasn't sent to dispatch him somehow. I guess cruelty can be forgiven or forgotten because we must conserve our forces lest a country become ripe for the picking of it's natural recourses such as oil.
Simon Busutill should be added. This guy is crying for power and will and does everything to obtain it. He calls everyone he dislikes corrupt and drags their name without trail into the mud. No one is allowed to question him nor contradict him; he says everything and anything to obtain power. His henchmen have total power over their followers but must keep their distance from Simon Busutil's power as he would have them eliminated. He likes his henchmen to be as cruel and vicious as possible. He also has the Roman Catholic Church on his side which brainwash people of hell if they do not listen to their new messiah Simon Busutill.
Joshua Lifetree May God protect Malta from this man. From what you describe he has all the signs of being very dangerous. We have Julius Malema who seems to be slowly rising in South Africa too. Be safe! Sending blessings from the other side of the world
the reason stalin cant be on this list is the information about him is widely argued about how valid that information is. Look up the black book of communism and how many people have debunked it and youll understand.
Stalin's history as we know, was written by the west. Our hate for communism was ingrained to us by anti-russian propaganda. Many good unbiased historians point out that alot of what we know is an extreme exxaguration of Stalin
Honorable or *dis*honorable*)mentions: The KIM family, North Korea, The Duvaliers, Haiti, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, Pinochet of Chile, Videla of Argentina.
Vietnam went in Cambodia and frankly, were very shocked. Very, very shocked. There is not a lot written about it but I hope that someday, someone does. Soon we will see the rise of the Han. A great darkness is coming out of China
pol pot and the congo free state really really get me. I know a family that was lucky enough to have escaped cambodia...as for the congo..well- a lot of africa has been cut very very deep by colonialism, but for whatever reason what happened in the congo just makes my soul hurt
@@maryannfiore2693 Yeah it kills me when people rip on Africa but that would be an entirely different continent with very different infrastructure if colonialism had never existed
@@Kammithekiller Every Imperialist state has had the exact same effect on these unfortunate countries. Look at the American colonization of the Philippians during the second WW. They are very unstable.
As bad as Stalin and Hitler were, they were at least trying to create what their mad ideological belief systems said would be a better world. For them, all the death and suffering they imposed was unpleasant but worth it because in the end the world would be a better happier place (without Jews or capitalists or whatever). But Leopold was completely selfish. He had no broader vision. He was just hurting and killing people to make himself richer. And he was already a king! What could he not afford that he wanted??
@@MrSosa35 The reason is how recent they were. Have you heard of the Minnesota Vikings ? You do you think there victims were? How much is Moorish raids in Europe talked about? Haitian Massacre?
Leopold shouldn't even be on this list. The guy literally did nothing wrong, except being negligent. He got the land, sold exploitation rights to various companies like the anglo belgian rubber company, and let them handle things while he was thousands of kilometers away .
As a belgian i want to say sorry for everything that happened under that man But on a better note we these days only learn about how cruel he was and we absolutely hate him
Genghis Khan was actually not cruel but he liked his enemies to think so--propaganda. He actually asked neighbors to join his "family" If you betrayed him though.... He united East and West with laws and roads. His sons were not as competent or just.
No, he was cruel as balls, butchering innocents for self-perceived slights. "Join me or get a knife shoved up your ass" is cruel, no matter how child-friendly you try to make the mentality.
When I was young our vicar's son had been Idi Amin's superior officer: he described Amin as " a brilliant rugby player, but mostly bone from the neck up".
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Thank you for not including the usual suspects like Stalin and Hitler. I actually learned some stuff.
LuBu4u yeah because those two, everyone knows they were awful
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@@taylorquinn365 well some modern leftists see stalin as a hero soo
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My dad worked with a man who fled with his family from Cambodia during Pol Pot's regime. He was the sweetest man. I can't even imagine going through that.
As a child of a Ugandan and Rwandan number 1 really hurt me on an emotional level cause of the pain he cause my parents in their childhood
Space Cadet, I'm so sorry for the suffering for ALL the people in Africa. What humanity has done to itself since the beginning of time, how can there be a God?
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This is why I like to believe in Hell and Heaven despite not being a believer in that sense. No human punishment can ever cleanse these monsters.
Buntaichō Saber John 10:10 and 11 caught my attention and add a chapter? Holy? Bible ! Matthew 24
Hell indeed exists. And it is waiting.
It boggles my mind why their people dont rise up and remove them? You should believe in Hell, I think that describes life on this planet
@@MsMaryPatricia believing that both hell, heaven, the absurd devil who betrayed the almighty God, and God himself. Anyone not believing that Jesus Christ wasn’t, Real well I got bad news or should I say good news :) ....he clearly was a Historical figure they’re just not happy with the fact that They know Jesus Christ Exsisted even All Historians agree the ones not accepting that fact aren’t a Historian though you choose absurd or choose truth and embellish yourself in false words. Some atheists believe that a Religion has caused most wars when yet again clearly not.
@@niteriderband4713 The people don't rise up, for one reason, that by the time the tyrant is revealed to be a tyrant, showing his true colors, he had already disarmed the populace, usually under the purpose to 'make society safer'. That's why America's founding fathers mad the 2nd Amendment, the purpose of which is not for hunting weapons but weapons to keep the government from becoming tyrannical.
What blows my mind is how many of these were in recent history. When I think of cruel rulers I think medieval but Pol Pot and Edi Amin were so very recent. It's crazy and heartbreaking.
No doubt there will be plenty more in future too :(
Unknown5 hillary if she wins the election
It's difficult to notice and care about such matters if you're living a comfortable life yourself, I suppose.
Most medieval rulers don't have the resources to do really evil things. Also most of them were very self-absorbed so doing atrocities was something they had little interest in.
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I can’t even wrap my head around the suffering, My God,
@Chris Goodayle Two choices:
1. The brutal history of mankind indicates there's no God.
2. In spite of the brutal history, the world being much better today than in the past indicates divine existence.
Yeah, where was God in all of this???
@@eagander Possibly somewhere weeping over what some men had done with their gift of free will. God never left but some men left God.
@@dev27o8 The world is falling apart, it won't be much better for long I think.
@@dev27o8 if there is no evil no true fear therefore no fear of god simple
About Timur's casket: there is another story of it having been opened in October 1740, as Nader Shah wanted the jade tombstone for himself. In transit from Samarkand to Mashhad it broke in two, and when Nader finally saw it, he ordered it returned to its rightful place.
In order to be be historicaly accurate, always remember that the US supported the Khmer Rouge's claim to be the representatives of Cambodia at the UN due to their anti-Vietnamese stance.
big deal, thats just a case of the enemy of my enemy yada yada yada
That’s true not so much because of Viet. Nam , but our diplomatic move to open Red China as counter force to the Soviet Union allied us with them
Viet Nam was an ally of the Soviet Union and actually had a border war with China as well as invading Cambodia who was allied with China.
Very strange time in US History influenced by Henry Kissinger.
The Soviet Union was the perceived threat which caused us to sell our souls.
@@hoponpop3330 perceived threat? I think they were a wee bit more then that smh
China also supported Kmer Rouge and don't act like the Vietcong were angels they slaughtered many south Vietnamese. The situation of them liberating Cambodia is no different than the Nazis liberating parts of the Soviet Union or vice versa. Simply trading one evil for another.
I can't argue with any of those. We are still dealing with the messes that they left behind, and I think that King Leopold's was & is the worst. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire, is so divided and brutalized by bloodthirsty warlords that it will never be right, not in my lifetime or yours.
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Exactly, but the "" Catholic Church " will cont: to prayed and offered Mass for this" Cruelest depraved Monster" He belong to the Bottomless HELL for all eternity.
It is violent and divided because the local tribes are happy to kill each other for personal gain, who do you think made up the overwhelming bulk of the colonial army? Ill give you a clue it was not Europeans.
If Leopold had never done what he did and let Belgium run a normal colony on, say, the British or French model, Congo would still be the mess it is now. The key issue as in so many other places in Africa, the Mideast, South Asia, and elsewhere is that the states there are artificial, with no common ethnicity, language, or national identity. Their colonial-drawn borders slice through the homelands of people who would prefer to live together, and loop together peoples who would prefer to live apart. This produces endless ethno national rivalry and warfare.
Congo won’t ever fix up, I feel bad for my family members there
That Timur grave blew my mind, it's like a prophecy or some kind of curse that can impact another global event. wow, just wow
For every one head pyramid stopped 10 others. Some folks gotta learn the hard way
actualy it is only coincidence..if his tomb was opened and hitler RISED to power, and then commit sucide shortly after he was reburied...then i will give credit to that propercy.
@@bigtechdicktators6704 One version of that quotes the curse as "He who opens this tomb lets loose upon his land the curse of terrible war" And it was in June 1941 when Soviet scientists were inside Timur's tomb.
@@davidblaskie8987 so basicaly any mixup of text/event to push narative that autor want.
there is another although it can bring you self harm. Its the wry inscription on William Shakespeare's casket.
We all know about Hitler, Stalin and Mao. Let’s give some others the spotlight for cruelest leaders.
Like who?
Neil Keegan the Kim Dynasty, Saddam Hussein, Castro, ISIS’ Baghdadi.
@@allglorytothefather4186 Castro don 't belong in that list.
@@louispeene3382 Why not? you think you can be a dictator without committing crimes against humanity?
Wheres churchill?
I now see why this is called "5 of the Cruelest Rulers in History" instead of "The 5 Cruelest Rulers in History".
I don't get it
We already know about Hitler it's a freaking dead horse. Plus, he was basically a gentleman compared to those on this list.
@@Uimavalvoja the difference is picking only 5 out of many of the cruelest rulers in history instead of labelling them the top 5 cruelest rulers in history. I hope that makes sense.
George Walker I gat the message if he said top 5 cruelest trust me it will be only white people
@@fogmist1946 lol
I don't think you can have a list of evil rulers without adding Caligula. He is a candidate for the cruelest in history. But you're right. There are just so many to choose from.
Who agrees about putting Genghis Khan? He killed 40 million people. Even Taimur is stated to have been inspired by him. Kim il sung too deserves this place
Among a long list of other Roman emperers
@@theadmiral08701 bro roman emperors killed hundereds of thousands but we are talking about millions here so they are just kids in comparison lol
@Wuhan Virus Caligula was raised in captivity, had to watch his mother killed and basically was raised surrounded by cruelty. He did mostly right by the people. When his soldiers refused to cross the channel to Britannia, he didn't decimate them for subordination, but made them collect shells at the beach.
He didn't take kindly the ambitions of the Senate.
@@WDEMMEL Little Boots was small time. He did not do millions.
A good list! I never knew about the queen of Madagascar and I learned some things about the others. Caligula and Nero don't seem very bad by comparison. Thanks!
Mark T. Who Was the queen of Madagascar?
Sid Sidney eichmann wasn’t a ruler
RELY! CALIGULA NOT AS BAD AS THE QUEEN OF MADAGASCAR, THATS SOUNDS VERY BACKWORDS BRO! BUT THATS WESTERNERS FOR YOU,
The documentary made a lot of error regarding the queen of Madagascar (Ranavalaona 1st). I am from Madagascar and have a good Knowledge of our history, but the way how the west see this queen is completely wrong. Yes, she were against christianism and killed some people (as too many queens and kings of her Generation) but was not too cruel. Fired Christian missionaries reported her differently from the reality (a matter of positionality). By the way, why the president/Government of South Africa doesn't appear among the list given the apartheid and free murders that happened there?
@@andri5169 Trial by poison (7:44) seems not only cruel but stupid. So she was stupid, but maybe not as cruel as some other rulers. Don't take it personally. It's not a criticism of the people of Madagascar. There have been thousands of stupid and cruel rulers all over the world, throughout history. This video only examines 5.
Very enlightening. Reminds me of how good I have it. Thank you for sharing such a chapter many of us have forgotten or unaware of .
The sad thing about this is history always finds away to repeat itself.
George Santayana is credited with the famous quote, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Love the “Whataboutism”
@@maryannfiore2693 but Hitler was a soldier in WW1 he knew the past in still did it
Collecting skulls seems to have been a recurring hobby among the worlds head cases...... no pun intended
Timur's time was also called "the golden era of headhunting." ;-)
I had a book titled "The Great Thoughts" the entire book was short quotes from historic figures. One of Pol Pots quotes read, "I will kill one of your men, and you will kill 1,000 of mine and in the end, it will be you who tire of it first"
Amazed to see my ex boss not included, he thought like Stalin & Looked a lot like Hitler (on a good day)
lol
What kind of business was he in?
I can’t say that I am the biggest fan of Joseph Stalin however if he hadn’t been what he was they would not of been able to turn the Germans back
Lol thank you
Dang
I already knew about Leopold. If you only want power and money, you can't have any of it. People who desire power to do whatever they please are doomed to fail in that quest. It brings them only their own deaths and downfall
Your video just randomly popped up in my suggested videos and only after seeing you answer comments here I realized that you only have close to 900 subscribers. Great video man, very well narrated and well informed. Only thing, there is already a top5 unknown, so yea, bit of a name-fail right there.
I try to read and answer all the comments when I can, thanks for the feedback!
Unknown5
How do you edit and what do you use to?! You edit really great and I really I like it! P.S what mic do you use?!
900 to 90000 in not even a year? Somehow many of the history/knowledge channels seem to surge in sub-counts in the last months. Great thing^^
That was one of the most interesting and informative videos that I've seen in quite a while.
Great video. I enjoyed it.
Here's time stamp links for everyone.
1) @0:25 Pol Pot Cambodia (1976-1979)
2) @3:33 Timor the Great, Timor Empire (1370 - 1405)
3) @6:04 Queen Ranavalona I , Madagascar (1828-1861)
4) @8:38 King Leopold II, Belgium (1865-1909)
5) @11:52 Idi Amin, Uganda (1971-1979)
Thanks
Cruelest,that is just a pinch. They were sick monsters and there all burning in hell.
*they're*
LEOPOLD II is the serial Killer of Belgium.""" DANTE """would have had problem in what circle of Hell to placed this MONSTER" and yet not one of the so called Royal family has denounced him. "".""HELL is too Good for this" DEPRAVED Killer"
@@roc3784 Yes.
NO DUDE THE ARE JUST DEAD. NOTHING BAD HAPPENED TO THEM. THEY SUFFERED NOTHING. THE WORLD IS UNFAIR.
@Thor Thirty Nine Heaven and Hell is spritual,they say the eyes are the windows to your soul so we have a soul. I would like to think there is both. They call it Heaven because it is beautiful but there is nothing but space up there that goes on and on. They call it hell because this is what we're living,but if you dig in the ground you would end in the core of the earth. Digging further you end up in China. There is a Jahovah and Satan.
0:06 The old adage is by Lord Acton whom stated that "all power tends to corrupt and absolute power tends to corrupts absolutely"
In college I learned the Chris Dick corollary, "All power tends to corrupt and absolute power is pretty cool."
This is way better than that "Weird History" channel.
The narration is better and the music is way less cheesy.
but governments have your best interests at heart.......................................
some governments do; some governments don't.
he wrote "some".... (LOL. maybe pay more attention?)
to what? what kind of an argument is that?
Haasenpad f your people
Leopold hardly counts as governor of Congo tho. It was pretty much his property
The cruelest rulers are the ones that you use in class in where they have small indentations at the sides and you can't draw a straight line because of the indentations. F*ck !
8:35 “Her people payed a terrible price-“
*Apex Legends Ad begins*
Me: Her tyranny knew no limits!
Nicely done. I love the detail you go into. Only 5 but all with a good amount of time to focus on each of those 5. I'm subbing. Also, you have a very nice voice for announcing. Clearly spoken and easily understood. I join others with surpise you are such a small channel so far.
This yt channel is so awesome. Please never stop making videos.
How many people were killed by Britons in North America, Australia, Africa, New Zealand and Asia? How many people were killed by Spanish in North, South and Latin America? How many people were killed by Portuguese in South America? How many people were killed by French in South America and Africa? Etc..., etc...
All civilizations arise from killing.
This is about INDIVIDUAL tyrants, not nations!
History is unfortunately written by the victors. The U.S. has many war criminals who will go without trial. Trump, Obama, Bush, etc. all war criminals.
Is that want it’s called civilisation, the biggest atrocities in history is going on now there done in slaughter houses , in the uk alone we murder over 1 billion land animals with out mercy ,each year we even gas pigs to death , approximately 80 billion die in these animal death camps throughout the world , it’s genocide, because there not human has no baring , there innocent victims of oppression and exploitation, I’ve lived meat free 45 years and vegan 30 years , and I’m 66 and fit , it’s said people should have a choice , and I agree the choice is do you live humanly with empathy or not , animals have emotions like us , there sentient they grieve and bond , next time you eat flesh of another being ,think of this that animal suffered for you , it’s ok running down cruel dictators, but as soon as you buy animal products your a dictator too , go vegan it’s good for mind body and souls 🙏✌️💖🌱x ps watch Earthlings on TH-cam , be prepared for a shock ,
@@robertbridger111 You've made your choice. You won't mind if others choose a different route!
France what ? Sorry you are wrong the French do not kills civilians in wars , never !
Wow, this horrific. Good video tho. I had never heard of that Madagascar Queen
THATS BECAUSE ITS BLACK HISTORY THAT MOST PEOPLE LIE ABOUT
@Alfons Falkhayn no so called blacks in Madagascar, totally wrong and the pruff is very easy to find. The island was much larger than that and when have so called white people ever tell the truth about so called black people history? Never!
@Alfons Falkhayn WHAT THAT MEAN?YOU BEING FUNNY OR AN A-HOLE?
Me either
@Brad Viviviyal Damn that's harsh, but probably for the best for mankind. All religion for that matter. You can have morals and reason.
Nuon Chea - brother number 2 - stood aside for the leadership of the Rouge Khmer in favour of Pol Pot, who he eventually accused of being too soft. Nuon Chea was the mastermind behind Khmer Rouge policy ruthlessly enforcing orders to eliminate the middle classes, including the execution of Western hostages shortly before the Vietnamese invaded. The method of execution was often brutal and primitive.11 Westerners are believed to have met their fate in Tuol Sleng S-21.
Knowledge of these recent atrocious leaders should be known. We forget so quickly dictators are always in the making. Idolizing and apologizing for authoritarians needs to cease
I went to school with a girl who and her family fled her country due to pol pot real nic lady she taught me how to speak her native language
@Nobodylikesbad rappers get a life
Nobodylikesbad rappers: Who are YOU to call someone a liar?
@@ppena4128 thank you ma'am 😊
"Pol pot real nic"... what?
Is that from her native language?
@@sardinee4564 her native language is khemer also known as Cambodian she also speaks Vietnamese,Laos, Thai, English and Spanish as well
How come he's been making these videos for years, and millions of people regularly watch them, yet people still don't understand that his lists are of more obscure/lesser known aspects of history?
Why in every video are the comments full of "Stalin killed people he should be on the list" or "the Battle of the Somme should be on the list"?
The channel is literally called Unknown5.
Surely so many people cannot be so stupid for so long?
Well the clue is in the name of the channel, this is my first time seeing this channel and I get it already 🤷♂️
@@behindyou3689 That's beyond the point. They're still videos about lesser known aspects of history. Stalin is not one of those aspects.
The Somme was reference to his videos about battles and warfare, how the same happens with comments on those videos.
@@behindyou3689 The channel is about the lesser known aspects of history. That's pretty obvious. How many people Stalin killed is irrelevant because he's pretty well known. Yes I know - it was a reference to other videos of his, like I said.
I went to the killing fields. Jesus! Not a day you forget in a hurry
I couldn't be able to go and experience it, even if I wanted to. The first is financial difficulties and the second I would feel so much pain over the overwhelming negative energy those places have. :~( I can't even go to cemeteries for long due to the energy they have.I do love them for their Democratic representation, but they still have vibes that something isn't right.
Slave: "Every day we're collecting rubber from plants. It's backbreaking work and the sap gets on everything. It's put me in a state of depression."
Slaveowner: (patting him on his back) "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll snap back."
1:43 That's Haing Ngor from the movie "The Killing Fields".
Andrew Jackson. Ronald Reagan. The Bush Crime family. Ferdinand Marcos. Augusto Pinochet. The Shah of Iran. Josef Stalin. But I'd like to see more on the American Holocaust and industrialists.
True .Nobody talks about what the Europeans did to the Native Americans . They were so thoroughly wiped out it's like it never happened .
wiston churchill deliberately killed around 4 million bengalis during the bengal famine what is his rank
No he didn't, he never executed or tortured people en masse like the members of this list did
Consciously allowing human being to die like hitler did in concentration camps what do we call people like this?
@Bgsleo 1. Kabir was the fault of an idiotic French admiral. 2. Churchill was just a journalist in the 2nd Boer War, not in a leadership position. 3. The poision gas he was referring to when he recomended its use in places like Iran was non lethal tear gas. 4. Yes he ordered a strategic bombing campaign in WW2, like literally everyone else in the war. 5. True that the British government didnt manage the relief for the Bengal Famine, but it wasnt a deliberate policy of starvation like you're implying
My god, when you talk about all the millions of victims it's scary. There have always been totally insane bloodthirsty leaders.
Year Zero of Pol Pot. Sounds a lot like Cancel Culture.
Nothing screams Memorial more than keeping the bones on display. That should make them all proud
WW2 starts:
Archeologists who opened the tomb: I’m about to do what’s called the pro gamer move
imagine the rulers we don't know about
Now this is something, that brings all races together. When it comes to cruelty we all stand equal.
At 4.02 I think Genghis Khan looks a bit pissed off, having unintentionally fallen asleep in the tanning booth!! 🤣🤣🤣
You have to discuss criterias used: Relative contemporary laws, behaviours and values? Period? Numbers affected? Religious and cultural support? Arbitrary cruelty? Imaginative cruelty? Sanity? Delegation? Insight? 'Justification' (convention)?
You fail to mention the multiple genocidal campaigns of Andrew Jackson. The effect on the indigenous population is still felt today.
Yeah fuck that dude
An excellent point!
And what if he did include it? Would that have helped you finish?
First democratic president.... no surprise since democrats formed the KKK
Or democratic president FDR and his internment of asians
I guess hitler, stalin and mao are just too obvious for this list
Drake Brown even tho Mao is responsible for the cultural revolution (amongst other killer campaigns lol )which killed so many, he was also seen as a hero to many who lived in China during those times. I don’t think he was as evil as Hitler or Stalin... not even close. His plan and vision wasn’t meant to be so evil; he just had zero tolerance for dissidence. But Hitler and Stalin? Nah, those two were directly evil and they knew it. They meant to be evil overtly and they wanted everyone to know it. More Hitler than Stalin though, bc you can argue Stalin and Mao were similar in terms of what they wanted for their respective territories. They were just adamant on what they wanted and how they wanted their subjects to act. If their subjects defied him, he would make examples out of them. But Hitler just killed people bc he hated them. I don’t think Stalin or Mao hated their people. I actually feel they loved their loyal subjects/citizens (w.e u wanna call them lol). Hitler hated Jews and the “others” and stopped at nothing to have them murdered. That’s what sets him apart from his counterparts. But yea going back to ur post, I think this youtuber def thought those 3 were too obvious. I know Hitler n Satan, I mean Stalin were too obvious. Not many people know Mao. But for those who do, even him, too obvious.
I consider eg Churchill worse than Stalin. So maybe obvious to an American. And you just put Hitler in there to make it believable, while he was your ally as well as all western Europes ally
No they are not too obvious. Stalin and Mao are victims of misinformation coming mostly out of the USA.
I wasn't a cruel ruler by these standards, most people I killed or imprisoned were criminals and traitors, besides, 4 mil "victims" with 648,000 killed hardly makes this list
Joseph Stalin ah sorry man i was misunderstood. Didnt mean to throw dirt on your name my bad. You look like a nice guy sorry
10:44 reminds me of this poem from the early 20th century:
"Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost,
Burning in Hell for his hand-maimed host.
Hear how the demons chuckle and yell,
Cutting his hands off, down in Hell."
Vachel Lindsay
I'd never heard of Ranavalona before. Very interesting.
Just goes to show that women can be just as ruthless as men...
Two words - Catherine di'Medici.
Actually 3. Catherine de Medici.
Politically incorrect..
Plus she may have been a trans 'woman' (a man), just like some 'evil men' in history or nowadays were/are in fact women...
None of this cruelty would have been possible without complicity from other "humans".
All these leaders: We have a high kill count
Mao: allow me to introduce myself
Other mentions: Vlad Dracul, Countess Bathory, Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan (if you mentioned Tamerlane, they belong), Antiochus 4 Epiphanes, and Mao Tse Tung.
How about Madelein Albright who officially stated that to kill 500.000 Iraqui children was ¨worth it¨.
All these people never suffered for their misdeeds.
Sad
Maybe not in this life.
This Brit narrator failed to mention fellow Brit who was adviser and driving force behind cruelty of Idi Amin. His first name was Bob. He lived unmolested, life full of luxury in U.K. till he died!
Surprised Caligula or Nero aren't on here
Nero was a dickhead, not really massively cruel
TheMAXIFOD he turned Christians into candles
Being burned alive was the penalty for arson; considerable evidence has emerged to suggest that Nero wasn't wrong to blame Christians for the 64 AD fire.
That certainly is possible. Rome had many enemies and like Europe today, those enemies were able to sneak across borders and wreak havoc. Before Constantine, Roman Emperors and Rome in general looked at Christians as another version of Jews. In fact they made little distinction between the two in Caligula's time. It was very popular in those days in Rome to blame Jews for nearly everything but over time that shifted to blaming Christians for everything that went wrong. Occasionally that blame may very well have been well placed.
Caligula was a fuckin boss
Nero, Caliguala, Cecil J Rhodes, Toquemada, Ivan the Terrible, Talaat Pasha, Bloody Mary, Paul Kagame (Idi Amin lol), Mao, Stalin, Muhamed I, Pope Nicoals V, Fransisco Pizzaro, Queen Victoria
...etc etc
Bloody Mary executed 273 people. It is quite impossible to compare her to Mao and Stalin, don't you think???
Christopher Davis No Hitler? Mmm
Christopher Davis They were probably saints compared to who we have in the US and Israel!
where is Winston Churchill ? he starved 2.5 million people deaths in India
Waiting for his time.😀
History is written by winners.
@@libniteja294 Yes
Libni Teja dat part
i find funny as hell that as soon as that dude in uganda kicked out the asian and white minorities, his country took a shit dive
Rubio Jesse history 101
African history 101
Look at South Africa, Rhodesia, etc. for more examples showing African nations taking a nosedive after removing Whites
@@DD8081 No matter the race, if you kick out those who can competently run a business and replace them with those who can't, the results would be the same.
Y’all are funny blaming people for wanting their land back. Maybe if the entire continent wasn’t swept of its natural resources and people, they could’ve developed at a normal rate. But you guys are right, white people really did a lot for Africa in general. Shit on it and left for everyone to deal with the aftermath.
"THAT'S NOT REAL COMMUNISM!!!"
"THAT'S NOT REAL SOCIALISM!!!"
Right....
It is right. Do you think America has real capitalism? Think again.
Colonialism was real capitalism.. millions were murdered..
tone deaf duck ours has always been a mixed economy with the mix favoring capitalism. As to BG’s post, the ONLY successful experiments with collectives have been the kibbutzim in Israel and even they’re required to deal with the rest of the state in order to thrive. They also lose members annually.
@@HotVoodooWitch No, true capitalism is when whoever delivers the best bang for the buck gets ahead. In the American system, large corporations use their power and money to cheat. That's corruption, not capitalism. Democratic socialist countries have the happiest people on Earth. It does work. Obviously, the filthy rich oppose it, but why would you?
Number 3: Proof that even women can be the most brutal and psychotic individuals on the planet!
Over 95% of all female leaders took their Nations to war!
@@donaldzlotnik505 let me correct you:
A lot of female rulers a few hundred years ago brought their country into war
Elisabeth Bathory proved that.
@@donaldzlotnik505 And where are you getting this stat? Is it just a random statement you made up in your brain to make yourself sound smart?
WOW POL POT WAS TOTAL BLASPHEMY AGAINST GODS GIFTED POSSESSIONS.
Thought he was better than god, but god rules
fuck capitalists watch out US socialists are gonna take over and bang you
Anybody who chops off arms & legs of Toddlers, kids for wealth are the evilest person ever. Leopold and his men are No.1evil forever!
Help me become a dictator
If you have access to a cruel leader, be a hero and KILL THEM!
Good plan, then watch your friends and family horribly tortured to death in front of you by their henchman and heirs. There is a reason they stay in power it's called terror. A word that is often used by people who will never experience it.
bluedick321 They'll probably die anyway! Cruel leaders are of nihilistic nature, they want everything destroyed and everyone killed. Look at hitler, stalin, mao, assad, musollini............ All they leave behind is a trail of catastrophe and death. Be a hero not a coward. What is friends and family in comparison to countries destroyed?
@@PaulSmith-pf2uq People tend to choose survival over heroism I'm realistic about my own character.
@@bluedick321 Not true. If people tend to choose survival over heroism, there wouldn't be any soldiers fighting for Freedom and there wouldn't be any Doctors and Nurses fighting against covid-19. Did you know that there were 44 assassination attempts against evil hitler? None of them succeeded. The assassins/freedom fighters were captured, tortured, executed and so did their families and associates. But think if one of them had succeeded, how many millions of lives they would have saved! People put their lives in grave danger every day for the good of Humanity, we just don't notice it. Doctors Without Borders, Nuclear workers, Astronauts ............ It's ok if you or I are not one of these people but remember that you are not born a Hero, you become one! Who's to say that if someone was facing danger, you wouldn't step in to save them?
@@PaulSmith-pf2uq Fair comment, I didn't know about the Hitler thing either.
Thought-provoking video.
Who would I have included ? Vlad the Impaler. Just possibly the cruellest person who ever lived.
Most of his acts were to get rid of the criminals in his country or the ottomans who tried to invade his country. During his reign the criminal acts decreased and almost disappeared
@@escapistfromhell1543 Thank you indeed, your point well taken. I would merely add that although Vlad is believed to have killed approximately 80,000 people, his draconian rule, and more so, the methods he employed, especially the impaling on stakes, were cruel in the extreme.
I hope to see more great videos like this one !
@@HartfordHD125 most of the people today that know about Vlad the impaler know about his cruelty and the stories that point it out and less about his good deeds and that is mostly because of Bram Stocker's book Dracula. But his book is based on the stories that he found being spread out at that time as a remaing part from the lies the boyard spread during Dracula's reign to scare people and to paint him as a vile person due to their own hate against him and what he was doing. It's easier to find stories about his cruelty than it is to find proof about their own deeds and their own greed. Those same boyards who presented him as a villain were the same greedy bastards who betrayed him and in the end kill him. That's what people of our days don't know. If Vlad the impaler know about the modern state of our country he would be rolling in his grave of fury and sadness bc he isn't around to take care of all the greedy and criminal politicians that rupe our country, politicians who try to make bribary and sexual assault a legal issue not punishable
What! No Vlad the Impaler! He worked all the old, poor and sick people in his kingdom to death, impaled his enemies on stakes and drank human blood. He's the origin of the Dracula myth.
13:40 "Kept the heads of his enemies in his refrigerator."
Wait a second ... you mean that's not normal? Shit.
"...even by the standards of that days" - what is this supposed to mean?? I doubt very much, that the standards of that days in comparison with those of today, were any cruler!
How is king leopold not number 1? he was worse than Idi Amin.
Because his father was the first Leopold king of Belgians ;-)
Because he was white, white people only lose number 1 spot lists like this..
Aedwynn Storax lmaooo
Touraj Touran lmaooo
unbelievable
Pol Pot should have been way higher. He's the one that belongs in this list in modern times. Idi Amin has nothing on guys like Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. A couple of Roman emperors like Nero and Caligula could have made the list, and some popes as well, like Innocent IV, the dude with the ironic name who introduced the world to inquisision torture.
Yes! The Roman Catholic Church murdered over 500 million Christians, Jews, and Catholics between 1095-1800. The Popes and their Inquisition squads were some of the most horrific torturers and killers to ever live.
@Starseedspirit Nero was a domonic, sick, murderer. He used to burn Christians alive for refusing to bow to him and worship him. I'll bet he knows he's not God now.
As Slayer says: Hell Awaits!
@mike force You need to read a correct, unrevised history book, mate.
The Vatican murdered over 500 million people throughout much of Europe from 1095-1800.
Whether you like it or not, it is proved fact.
@mike force Mike you idiot ass! The murder of 500 million people took place over the time period of 1095-1800. That's a 705 year long period in which they accomplished killing 500 million people. This is not my opinion, this is verified historical fact. Did you even truly read my comment? Can you even understand English? You have an IQ lower than Adriana Grande's!! And your Roman Catholic Church is Satan's counterfeit version of true Biblical Christianity. Good luck trying to explain to King Jesus how your good works allow you entrance into Heaven!
@mike force This applies directly to you:
Romans 1:18-32 You have been given over to a reprobate mind. Your master, Satan, controls you.
How those people were absolutely crazy
@John Lorenzo Trump said to inject Bleach!
My gosh you researched 2 people I had no knowlege of at all, Very good research.
This makes me question how evil a human can get. The brain is a very complex organ and the scariest part of all is that no human personality is alike. There’s 7 billion different personalities on this planet, some are evil and some are good.. there could be a hitler walking among us and we don’t even know it. This is deep shit. Alright I’ll stop smoking weed now lol.
Interesting choices. Some of them I had never heard of before. It's sort of weird to make a list of the most cruel when there are so many to choose from (unfortunately). The one's your mentioned were indeed horrible. I guess I would have to nominate Hitler, Stalin and Mao just do to the sheer numbers if nothing else. I am sure there are probably thousands in history who would be eligible for this list and thankfully I don't know their names. Cruelty is a common human theme anytime anyone has power over someone else.
2:38. "To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss!"
I like that. " NOT THE MURDERING JUST THE MESSAGE
Wait..Idi Amin went to Saudi after all the brutality and cruelty he did and literally died unpunished?! Wtf?!
I know. It's amazing the CIA wasn't sent to dispatch him somehow. I guess cruelty can be forgiven or forgotten because we must conserve our forces lest a country become ripe for the picking of it's natural recourses such as oil.
Simon Busutill should be added. This guy is crying for power and will and does everything to obtain it. He calls everyone he dislikes corrupt and drags their name without trail into the mud. No one is allowed to question him nor contradict him; he says everything and anything to obtain power.
His henchmen have total power over their followers but must keep their distance from Simon Busutil's power as he would have them eliminated. He likes his henchmen to be as cruel and vicious as possible. He also has the Roman Catholic Church on his side which brainwash people of hell if they do not listen to their new messiah Simon Busutill.
Joshua Lifetree May God protect Malta from this man. From what you describe he has all the signs of being very dangerous. We have Julius Malema who seems to be slowly rising in South Africa too. Be safe! Sending blessings from the other side of the world
And may, I add that most of these evil rulers killed their own people...
The Conquistadors should have been mentioned here. They committed possibly the most egregious genocide in human history.
Doesn't even come close to what happened to the native populations of the Americas.
jojodojo you do realize that the conquest of america can be considered to have lasted for centuries before latin america became independent, right?
"CRUELEST RULERS IN HISTORY"... maybe go back to school and learn the meaning of words before you suggest unrelated things.
@@michealflaithbheartaigh4139 the conquistadors were fighting in the Americas, so they were mostly responsible for the genocide there....
Of course MuhamMAD and all his successors must be in this list.
such a difficult choice , you could do a top 100 video and it still wouldn't be enough . good video , very educational .
I would definatly have included Stalin though...
I'd put Stalin at no.1
the reason stalin cant be on this list is the information about him is widely argued about how valid that information is. Look up the black book of communism and how many people have debunked it and youll understand.
~ * "Definitely." No "a," pet peeve.
It gets boring when you see every list include Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Kahn.
Stalin's history as we know, was written by the west. Our hate for communism was ingrained to us by anti-russian propaganda. Many good unbiased historians point out that alot of what we know is an extreme exxaguration of Stalin
what human can do, to their fellow men.
Honorable or *dis*honorable*)mentions: The KIM family, North Korea, The Duvaliers, Haiti, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, Pinochet of Chile, Videla of Argentina.
*_Pope "Innocent"_*
Jesse Sargent Pope Urban ii is best pope
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Thats Oxymoron.
No surprise he fled to Saudi.. that country isn't one for human rights either
It was bad enough what Idi Amin did, but to get away with it without being brought to justice makes it all the more outrages.
In the Netherlands the school system is so extreme left, they deny the killing fields of Cambodja.
Karma doesn't exist
It's crazy how Vietnam took down Pol Pot.
Vietnam went in Cambodia and frankly, were very shocked. Very, very shocked. There is not a lot written about it but I hope that someday, someone does. Soon we will see the rise of the Han. A great darkness is coming out of China
pol pot and the congo free state really really get me. I know a family that was lucky enough to have escaped cambodia...as for the congo..well- a lot of africa has been cut very very deep by colonialism, but for whatever reason what happened in the congo just makes my soul hurt
Not only did imperialism cut deeply in the African soul, BUT it unstabilized these countries for generations and generations.
@@maryannfiore2693 Yeah it kills me when people rip on Africa but that would be an entirely different continent with very different infrastructure if colonialism had never existed
@@Kammithekiller Every Imperialist state has had the exact same effect on these unfortunate countries. Look at the American colonization of the Philippians during the second WW. They are very unstable.
Leopold is so overlooked in terms of how evil he was. He needs to be spoken about in the same sentence as Stallin and Hitler
Reason being because his victims were black had they of been European he would be seen as truly devilish as he was
yaaseen parker. stalin wasn't bad
As bad as Stalin and Hitler were, they were at least trying to create what their mad ideological belief systems said would be a better world. For them, all the death and suffering they imposed was unpleasant but worth it because in the end the world would be a better happier place (without Jews or capitalists or whatever). But Leopold was completely selfish. He had no broader vision. He was just hurting and killing people to make himself richer. And he was already a king! What could he not afford that he wanted??
@@MrSosa35
The reason is how recent they were. Have you heard of the Minnesota Vikings ? You do you think there victims were? How much is Moorish raids in Europe talked about? Haitian Massacre?
Leopold shouldn't even be on this list. The guy literally did nothing wrong, except being negligent. He got the land, sold exploitation rights to various companies like the anglo belgian rubber company, and let them handle things while he was thousands of kilometers away .
My grand parents were living in congo during leopold ruling of the country
BLACK PEOPLE!!
As a belgian i want to say sorry for everything that happened under that man
But on a better note we these days only learn about how cruel he was and we absolutely hate him
@@mariellevandenborne2361 kweetniwi ;)
Leopold 2 laan in bijna iedere stad.
Standbeelden en bustes ook overal te vinden.
@@matthiasdvs154 hmmm zie hem alleen maar in oostende brussel of antwerpen
Genghis Khan was actually not cruel but he liked his enemies to think so--propaganda. He actually asked neighbors to join his "family" If you betrayed him though.... He united East and West with laws and roads. His sons were not as competent or just.
No, he was cruel as balls, butchering innocents for self-perceived slights. "Join me or get a knife shoved up your ass" is cruel, no matter how child-friendly you try to make the mentality.
When I was young our vicar's son had been Idi Amin's superior officer: he described Amin as " a brilliant rugby player, but mostly bone from the neck up".