@@daneboro6847 Yes, we're aware - history that shows why everyone in the war made some pretty fucking abhorrent decisions, or downright braindead decisions. Let's not forget US forces ignoring intelligence that there's an ambush in a town, then walking into that town, getting ambushed, getting massacred, and being surprised.
To be fair to those dictators. I've found this article worth sharing. I'm surprised Ukraine is on the list. What was the coup about? In an attempt to quantify U.S. warmaking, I’ve copied below lists from these sources: William Blum: America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy Dr. Zoltan Grossman: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions James Lucas: U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People Source Davidswanson warlist Here is Blum’s list of U.S. attempts to overthrow governments (* indicates success): China 1949 to early 1960s Albania 1949-53 East Germany 1950s Iran 1953 * Guatemala 1954 * Costa Rica mid-1950s Syria 1956-7 Egypt 1957 Indonesia 1957-8 British Guiana 1953-64 * Iraq 1963 * North Vietnam 1945-73 Cambodia 1955-70 * Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 * Ecuador 1960-63 * Congo 1960 * France 1965 Brazil 1962-64 * Dominican Republic 1963 * Cuba 1959 to present Bolivia 1964 * Indonesia 1965 * Ghana 1966 * Chile 1964-73 * Greece 1967 * Costa Rica 1970-71 Bolivia 1971 * Australia 1973-75 * Angola 1975, 1980s Zaire 1975 Portugal 1974-76 * Jamaica 1976-80 * Seychelles 1979-81 Chad 1981-82 * Grenada 1983 * South Yemen 1982-84 Suriname 1982-84 Fiji 1987 * Libya 1980s Nicaragua 1981-90 * Panama 1989 * Bulgaria 1990 * Albania 1991 * Iraq 1991 Afghanistan 1980s * Somalia 1993 Yugoslavia 1999-2000 * Ecuador 2000 * Afghanistan 2001 * Venezuela 2002 * Iraq 2003 * Haiti 2004 * Somalia 2007 to present Honduras 2009 Libya 2011 * Syria 2012 Ukraine 2014 * [arguably, Syria 1949 needs to be added to this list. -DS] The above list does not include numerous coups by U.S.-trained fighters, such as (other than Honduras) those discussed here: “from Isaac Zida of Burkina Faso, Haiti’s Philippe Biamby, and Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia to Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan, and the IMET-educated leaders of the 2009 coup in Honduras, not to mention Mali’s Amadou Sanogo.” These are just in very recent years, by no means a complete list, though the Haiti coup referenced here was earlier than the one included in the list above. We might want to the list of U.S.-backed coups: Venezuela 2018. We should certainly add Bolivia 2019. Also Venezuela 2019. And Venezuela 2020. And it seems we need to add New Zealand 1987. Also Guinea 2021, Mali 2021, Mauritania 2008, Mali 2012, Egypt 2013, Burkina Faso 2015, Mali 2020, etc. We might want to add to the list of coups by U.S.-trained troops: these from a 2022 report in The Intercept: “Since 2008, U.S.-trained officers have attempted at least nine coups (and succeeded in at least eight) across five West African countries, including Burkina Faso (three times), Guinea, Mali (three times), Mauritania, and the Gambia.” Also in 2022, Democracy Now reported on these coups by U.S. trainees just in Africa: Chad 2021, Mali 2021, Mali 2020, Guinea 2021, Sudan 2021, Bukina Faso 2022. 😎
@@maryrukundo2907 Can you explain the issue the Congolese people have with the Tutsi people? Because i can't understand the reason behind the atrocities i have seen online.
Seems like the black soldiers are the problem you know stealing and hiding bullets cutting off black people's hands to show what happened to those bullets it mainly is the black soldiers that are doing all the abuse and horrible ugly things I didn't see no white people cutting off no hands or beating nobody with a whip
@@M0rshu64 the people who actually been in one are from a different generation and probably wouldnt find it very humorous also cod players dont have the best idea what a real gulag actually was because to them its just a place to fight over a spot back in the game
I was talking to this one Russian lady. She was about 23 or 24. And she moved to LA around 2015. She never knew what the Gulag was. I was shocked. Her own parents hid it from her.
@@poomann Belgium is not as popular and didnt really play much in world politics aside from being invaded. Also it depends on who is writing the narrative. You never hear about America and their incredible war crimes (seriously look up the my lai massacre in vietnam) because most of the times theyre the ones dictating history. Thus they're always the heroes in their eyes
This feels like the kind of history that’s just worth knowing about. Many people go through life ignorant of the events that shaped the current world 🌎
@@Escritorez It’s a video of dictators, not governments. Plus this is a history channel, Iraq and Afghanistan is more contemporary and not considered history yet, since at least 50 years needs to pass in order for historians to get all the facts and make analyses on it.
@@gustavabensberg4260 We’ve never really fought him in any war directly and they’ve never lost like Hitler did. The losers of any war are often deemed as terrible people because they were on the losing side and countries such as the US had to dehumanize them and justify going to war with them.
0:06 Soviet Supreme Leader Joseph Stallin 5:30 Gulag Soviet Prison Camp 7:24 King of Belgium Leopold II and Cruel Congo Colony(New version) 17:17 Chinese Leadership Mao Zedong and The Great Leap Foward program 25:31 King of Belgium Leopold II and Cruel Congo Colony(Old version) 33:24 Mao Zedong Little Red Book 36:56 Operation Valkarie Asssasination attempt of Adolf Hitler by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg 45:09 Day in the Life of Joseph Stallin 53:13 Adolf Hitler's personal Train the Führersonderzug
I guess that's why Deng Xiaoping introduced the One-child policy to control Chinese population growth for decades after Mao Zedong's death? Were you planning to write a script to sequel of dumb and dumber? China achieved an ice-breaking diplomatic miracle under Mao. Most voters want democratic rights without responsibility. That's why they conveniently blame China for their problems. They forget that the power to elect their own leaders comes with responsibility. Which voter doesn't yearn to enjoy a good life? Is there really a need to vote for a better life? But why can't most democratic societies live up to public expectation to deliver what they demand? This deplorable culture to scapegoat foreign partners and competition of Western democracy means that socioeconomic development challenges are never fundamentally addressed. Chickens eventually come home to roost. Nobody may have the cake, and eat it too. Nobody can forever escape the moment of reckoning. Humanity is past the point of no return. I hope to admire the 5,000-year history of Taiwan and Hong Kong. Seriously. Qin Shihuang is immortalized in history books for changing the course of history. Put simply, China won't exist without his epic revolutionary unification of the warring states. Julius Caesar too, made his mark in a turbulent world by creating the Roman empire, which would since remain the pride of the West. But who will remember Lee Kuan Yew in 500 years? Make no mistake. Lee's version of “benevolent dictatorship” is widely appreciated by his own people for boosting their living standards. However, Singapore's founding father deemed it fit to erect a statue of Sir Stamford Raffles by the Singapore river in tribute to former British colonial rule. There's a fundamental difference between a genuine visionary who would materialize a tectonic shift in regional balance of power to reshape the geopolitical landscape and a masterful follower who made a fortune for his family while leading a young citystate to unprecedented affluence worthy of global envy under the prevailing international order. Mao ended decades of international isolation, blockade and boycott to bring the PRC into the United Nations as a permanent member of the security council. China achieved a diplomatic breakthrough to mend ties with the West via the historic ping pong diplomacy, amid the Cold War, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1739585175770497473?t=NZeOektSzGX7Z5-nsWuurQ&s=19 习近平如果以秦孝公为榜样，大刀阔斧推行法律政治方面的改革，竞争对手从此就不会有好日子过了。你已经掉入了 false dichotomy 的意识形态陷阱，天真认为世界就是所谓集权专政 vs 美国霸权主导的所谓民主体制。你相信民主，所以支持霸权主义。我质疑民主体制的绝对普世优越性，所以坚决反对霸权主义。民主国家支持霸权，实属自欺欺人的伪君子作风。 中共有自知之明，并非坏事。生于忧患，死于安乐。习近平的中庸之道，是否一定让人感觉优柔寡断？新加坡与西方如果对自身的体制过度自信，总是自我感觉良好优越，更有可能出现战略误判，掉入盲点陷阱。这也并非好事。中国走中国该走的路。新加坡人不必为一个五千年文明，杞人忧天。中国的智慧与文化底蕴，或许是你一辈子，都无法理解的。习近平如果真的独断专行，香港著名景点就不会以殖民统治者英国女王维多利亚命名。Queen Victoria: “The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.”
That king Leopold piece is incredible. I think seeing this in an animation takes away from the sheer horror. I saw a pic from Congo taken with a woman who had her hand missing and a kid in a cage and two white kids smiling, between the woman and the kid in the cage. Chilling pic the look in the eyes is as if their defeated.
Very true, which is why self reflection is especially important. These individuals had much in common in that they were focused on how they were treated, though never considerate of how they were with others. They were total victims in their own stories
A few who DEFINITELY belong on the list, but weren't mentioned: 1) Pol Pot. He perpetrated, per-capita, the greatest genocide in modern history. 2) The "Emperor" Bokasa of the Central African Republic (re-named "Empire," by him. One of his claims-to-fame, was personally beating to death, a large number of children, who wouldn't wear a school uniform designed by his brother. He also depleted his nation's treasury, to fund his "coronation." 3) Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. Among other things, he personally tortured prisoners, in a dungeon he set up in the basement of the National Palace, he created the "Ton-Ton Macoutes," his private torture & death squad, and changed the "Lord's Prayer" to apply to him---"Our Doc, who art in the National Palace..." Idi Amin, of course, who traveled about Uganda with a portable guillotine, beheading potential opponents, and was reputedly a cannibal (I think Bokasa was, too). Kim Il Sung, the "Great Leader," and both "Baby Kims," for numerous reasons. There are plenty of "runner-ups," but I think the ones I've listed were the worst of the worst.
@@spiderzvow1 I remember seeing on TV, an interview with the monster, while he was in exile in China. He was in tears!....NOT tears of guilt or regret. He was all broken up, because people just didn't understand that it was NECESSARY for him to have done what he did!
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket I can't believe you guys can't relate to them, they are the best role models to be followed on how to be good at politics
I did a presentation about King Leopold ll, the stories were truly disturbing and it broke my heart having to research about this disgusting situation.
4:36-5:18 The Death of Stalin in a nutshell. I love that movie! At first, I was surprised you didn’t mention Beria at all during the portion about Stalin. But then I realized that he’s another story. Beria was truly sick and evil beyond repair.
I just looked him up. Yikes... Not only did he organize the extermination of 22,000 polish people, it's believed he was a serial killer and serial rapist as well.
They did, but not extensively. For instance, they never talk about Beria’s sadistic habit of torturing people for his own amusement. He was so messed up that even Stalin didn’t let his own daughter around him
It's still a whitewashed story of Stalin, ignoring his paedophiliac escapades and the "famine" being a deliberate genocide to replace populations with more.loyal rural russians. Specifically, Holodomor starved Ukrainians to death and Kazakhstan famine was also a deliberate ethnic cleansing. On top of that, he declared ALL Crimean Tatars genetically fascist, exiled them all to Siberia (most dying on the way), and only allowed white people to live in Ukrainian Crimea.
0:07 joseph Stalin 7:26 king Léopold II 17:17 mao zendong (great leap forward) 25:33 king Léopold the II (again) 33:26 Mao Zedong (little red book) 36:57 adolf hitler (assasinstion plan) 45:12 joseph Stalin (again) 53:17 adolf hitler (means of travel)
Im new to the history of leopold n the Congo & I’m absolutely disgusted n traumatized simply from hearing the stories. I can’t imagine what the descendants of that country must feel. Wow, thanks for covering this
Their descendands dont feel anything as it was way b4 our times ...u are just like most blacks nowadays being racist and trying to lay blame on all white ppl yet u forget that most if not all this was only possible if their own people sold em out just like happened with slaverny...by ur train of thoughts all muslims are also terrorists cuz they killed ppl in cold blood
Just as a point of correction the bomb that was used in Operation Valkyrie was 30mins long not 10mins. Also he had intended to use 2 but was only able to set up 1.
To be fair to those dictators. I've found this article worth sharing. I'm surprised Ukraine is on the list. What was the coup about? In an attempt to quantify U.S. warmaking, I’ve copied below lists from these sources: William Blum: America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy Dr. Zoltan Grossman: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions James Lucas: U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People Source Davidswanson warlist Here is Blum’s list of U.S. attempts to overthrow governments (* indicates success): China 1949 to early 1960s Albania 1949-53 East Germany 1950s Iran 1953 * Guatemala 1954 * Costa Rica mid-1950s Syria 1956-7 Egypt 1957 Indonesia 1957-8 British Guiana 1953-64 * Iraq 1963 * North Vietnam 1945-73 Cambodia 1955-70 * Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 * Ecuador 1960-63 * Congo 1960 * France 1965 Brazil 1962-64 * Dominican Republic 1963 * Cuba 1959 to present Bolivia 1964 * Indonesia 1965 * Ghana 1966 * Chile 1964-73 * Greece 1967 * Costa Rica 1970-71 Bolivia 1971 * Australia 1973-75 * Angola 1975, 1980s Zaire 1975 Portugal 1974-76 * Jamaica 1976-80 * Seychelles 1979-81 Chad 1981-82 * Grenada 1983 * South Yemen 1982-84 Suriname 1982-84 Fiji 1987 * Libya 1980s Nicaragua 1981-90 * Panama 1989 * Bulgaria 1990 * Albania 1991 * Iraq 1991 Afghanistan 1980s * Somalia 1993 Yugoslavia 1999-2000 * Ecuador 2000 * Afghanistan 2001 * Venezuela 2002 * Iraq 2003 * Haiti 2004 * Somalia 2007 to present Honduras 2009 Libya 2011 * Syria 2012 Ukraine 2014 * [arguably, Syria 1949 needs to be added to this list. -DS] The above list does not include numerous coups by U.S.-trained fighters, such as (other than Honduras) those discussed here: “from Isaac Zida of Burkina Faso, Haiti’s Philippe Biamby, and Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia to Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan, and the IMET-educated leaders of the 2009 coup in Honduras, not to mention Mali’s Amadou Sanogo.” These are just in very recent years, by no means a complete list, though the Haiti coup referenced here was earlier than the one included in the list above. We might want to the list of U.S.-backed coups: Venezuela 2018. We should certainly add Bolivia 2019. Also Venezuela 2019. And Venezuela 2020. And it seems we need to add New Zealand 1987. Also Guinea 2021, Mali 2021, Mauritania 2008, Mali 2012, Egypt 2013, Burkina Faso 2015, Mali 2020, etc. We might want to add to the list of coups by U.S.-trained troops: these from a 2022 report in The Intercept: “Since 2008, U.S.-trained officers have attempted at least nine coups (and succeeded in at least eight) across five West African countries, including Burkina Faso (three times), Guinea, Mali (three times), Mauritania, and the Gambia.” Also in 2022, Democracy Now reported on these coups by U.S. trainees just in Africa: Chad 2021, Mali 2021, Mali 2020, Guinea 2021, Sudan 2021, Bukina Faso 2022. 💐
The Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha was also very cruel. His torture methods and executions were shocking, tens of thousands were killed during his rule in Albania (1945-1985). Maybe a video about him in the future?
@@collinthegamer510 He did many good things for Albania, the Albanian military was one of the best in Europe and one of the greatest in the world, Albania was the country with the highest soldiers per capita (out of a population of 3 milion, there were 700k soldiers), but Enver Hoxha's policies towards his political and ideological enemies were very cruel, the Albanian camps (gulags) were brutal and harsh during the Communist Era.
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Jews suppress information about any other atrocities, because they need the attention on them at all times. And there are museums of it in every country and city. After all, that's how they get billions from every country each year. "We need it :( We're just small guys being bullied.. with the power of a US Military.. and our enemies are children throwing rocks" What a depressing culture.
@Dr. Plagueman even Stalin. He industrialized Russia in only a few years, but he did it off the backs of slaves. It doesn’t matter how evil someone is, there will always be someone that admires them.
You forgot to include General Hector Aldozar of Isla Island (later renamed Bananarama) who became the most brutal dictator in Isla Island's history. He was so brutal, he earned the nickname "El Bailarín De La Muerta," which translates to "The Dancer of Death".
One note- the Cold War was not started single handedly. FDR was very willing to work with the USSR, whereas Truman was far more distrustful of the USSR. The division of Germany was a huge sticking point between the Allies, and without FDR you had two leaders who were unwilling to budge
The history of the Cold War would certainly be, objectively, a history of two sides that barely understood each other working hard to screw each other over, while making disastrous decisions that set their own interests back repeatedly. The west, for example, pushed for a "containment" policy that would confine the Soviets to a limited area of power and influence, while the Soviet Russians felt existentially threatened without a comfortable buffer zone between themselves and their enemies - the different psychologies would drive the two sides to constantly do things that would heighten the insecurity and paranoia of their opponents. (This is, arguably, the history of more than just the Cold War, as much the same thing could be said of many counterproductive history-making decisions made since the establishment of the League of Nations and its successor, the United Nations, in the name of maintaining a "balance of power" and a "world order", such as the disastrous decisions that led to the secret treaties that sparked WWI, or the no less disastrous Treaty of Versailles that made WWII all but inevitable....)
Is that in King Leopold's time or the senseless killings and murders that have been happening since 1996? At least 5.4 million people have been killed up to 2007. It seems sources claim the death toll is 1000 people a day. Current research has the figure around 7 million and climbing as of 2023. The cobalt mines are a major cause of the violence and also the claims by the Congo that at least $1 billion of cobalt has been smuggled by Rwanda. Many Rwandans have joined the rebel M23 faction.
Uh yep. Same with roles reversed to be fair but if you take a stance against one your often labelled as the other. It’s a sick and fucked up cycle and if there was a Time Machine available, let’s just say a majority of smart people would make a B-line straight for Marx.
To this day (apparently), King Leopold II is considered to have been a great king, in Belgium, with numerous statues honoring him, due to his many public works projects.
@@Nicky2414 Maybe, it's not something Belgians learn about. Also, I'm pretty sure that Japanese school-children are never told about the HORRIBLE atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in WW2. And I wonder, how many U.S. generals, highly honored for their accomplishments in the Civil War, went on, to massacre Indians?
Since you guys have talked about the Congo Free State a few times, I would like to see if you guys could cover a video on the Congo-Arab War. It was a proxy war between the Congo Free State and various groups of East African slave traders led by Sefu bin Hamid that lasted from 1892 to January 1894.
Although not talked AT ALL in discussions regarding slavery, Arabs were the biggest perpetrators of Western/Transatlantic Slave Trade. Chained Africans would be gathered all around Sahel, then would be sold to Europe or America via Ottomans or Spanish/Portuguese.
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As Klaus Schenk Grav Von Stauffenberg was recovering from the injuries he suffered in Tunisia, he joked with friends about how before then he hadn't known what to do with so many fingers.
Very good job fellows!! Congratulations. This feels like the kind of history that’s just worth knowing about. Many people go through life ignorant of the events that shaped the current world 🌎
Pretty known quote but those who do not remember history are bound to repeat it please understand this is why we must learn about these terrible atrocities 😔
Mainly it looks like black soldiers abusing black civilians to me I didn't see any White cartoons beating people with whips or cutting people's hands off or having big buckets of hands so they could steal bullets it was mainly black people doing it to each other
Yeah, it does lose some rating points for being a bit random and repetitive in the presentation: it clearly started its life as a collection of separate videos that were recorded over and extended period of time and then stapled together without any obvious design involved in the order other than something arbitrary, like the date of recording or whatever...
Stalin's mother was not an ethnic russian but a georgian. She never wanted her son to become a priest, she sent her son to the seminary of Tbilissi because it was the best educational institute in the Caucasus.
There should be dictators around ancient times like Rome, Japan, or sometime I read in Asian history that this military ruler Choe Chung-heon made himself and family as dictators. Should be stories like this.
If to count not only formal dictators but also other rulers and also medieval plus early modern ages - exactly yes (Rome: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Nero, Heliogabalus; Japan: Takeda Shingen, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi; China: Qin Shi Huang, Cao Cao), but anyway the scale of their acts and victims was less than of modern (XIX-XX centuries) dictators due to a lack of relevant means (a scarcity of population, technological backwardness).
@@研究生在宇宙的各個方 its just human nature. competition, greed, lust hate etc. there will always be dictators and you never see them coming because any great idea has to have a leader and people always pick the most charismatic can-do guy for the job and like all of us, they let it go to their heads and egos not all but a lot. power is most seductive. It's a responsibility that most shouldn't have for very long if not at all .and nobody is immune to seduction you need discipline a humble heart etc. it would be very hard to be a real leader without making mistakes and I'm not defending the evil dictators! power can lead you in directions you didn't see coming until it's too late and quicker for those who are evil. If you want perfect leaders, you need to be perfect people are we no! and no excuses for the evil ones.
7:20 gulags never went away though. They are still there, if not more. Just slightly more hidden, unless you can access sat photos on clear weather days Amazed to see Leopold on the list, good on you for adding him
@@theoriginalJP ok there are no laws regarding Slavic Christianity in the nation of Ukraine. Good to know I thought Zelensky had been trying to outlaw it
24:39-24:55 The subtle noises in the background really psyched me out lol. I'm listening to this at the hospital with earbuds in and I thought I was hearing a patient scream over the audio. I would take them out and it was silence. Put then back in and there it was again. Took a couple times to realize it was the video lol.
My great grandmother borned in Krasnodar then Stalin war ruling USSR... She was from a Greek family of Pontus... Lot of Greeks from Pontus ( same as Armenians and Georgians) sent in Kazakhstan to build towns or work in the coal mines... Lot of her countries sent to the Gulags... And as you think, they never returned...
Mariupol, Crimea, and rest of Southern Ukraine had a huge Greek diaspora, like the Azov Greeks... Same fate really. The whole Soviet Union engaged in ethnic cleansing on major level, working minorities to death, it just doesn't get as mentioned because nobody counted the shoes of people building Trans-Siberian railway.
What Leopold did was by far worse than US slavery, yet Belgium were never held to account for genocide and have never made reparations, yet it is the seat of the European Government.
The reason Stalingrad was defended at all costs was not because of name, but mostly because of strategic importance. If Stalingrad fell, the Nazis could have cut off much of the Soviet oil supplies, and worse, diverted the oil for their own use. Both sides knew this, and both sides fought bitterly because of this.
@@Athenaa13Its name was the reason the Soviets dug in their heels at Stalingrad. Over and beyond its already considerable strategic importance, it was simply inconceivable that Stalin's City should ever be allowed to fall.
Stalin, a Georgian: Reads about Georgian independence. Stalin: Becomes supreme leader of the Soviet Union Georgia: You'll give us independence right? Stalin: 🗿
But he did promote Georgian culture in USSR and Georgia was persecuted lesser compared to other SSRs including Russia. Also many of his close associates like Lavrentiy Beria were of Georgian origin. Also Georgia didn't face famines like in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
@@gocool_2.0 Lol what, he suppressed many Rebellion's in Georgia and killed many people during purge Lavrentiy Beria became a high official not because he was Georgian but because he supported Stalin
@@giorgijioshvili9713 That's true. He persecuted everyone. The first targets were turkic tribes. I just told Georgian persecution was somewhat milder compared to other SSRs
Different nations have their own most evil, based on their unique history. In the case of Ireland, I think the vast majority would say Oliver Cromwell was the worst in our history but for me it is another Englishman called George Carew, 1555-1629. He was a psycho who had people restrained so he could strangle them. As President of Munster, Carew had his men throw 300 people from the cliffs of Dursey Island in southwest Ireland. These were mostly young children, pregnant women, the elderly and infirm. They were tied together in twos and threes before being thrown to their deaths. Carew also beseiged a remote outpost and butchered 500 men there. When they attempted to surrender, Carew hung the messenger before killing every last man. His long career, saturated in the blood of Irish innocents, makes him my nominee for history`s most evil. May God have mercy on his soul.
Of all the super empires, the British was the 'least' brutal. The British were never accused of genocide, and we pretty much abolished slavery in the west, and engineered anti-racism laws, before anyone else. And the Empire never fell, either. It was replaced with the Commonwealth, which still has 14 member states, and numbers almost 3 billion people. The Romans, Greeks, China, Belgium, Mongols.... all were far worse and brutal than the British.
@@booksanimeenthusiast3802 maybe you should compare that to literally every famine that happened before and after the British control... And maybe you should look at the LITERAL Bollywood game of thrones that was happening there before the British set foot there
Stalin is our hero. He eliminated the fifth column and gave us a nuclear bomb, which still does not allow the creatures from NATO to kill us all. Let those who are against him burn in the same pot with Gorbachev and Yeltsin. !
Valkyrie would have succeded if the bomb was planted NEXT to Hitler but also still would have if they used double the explosion. However due to the weight and injuries Strauff had it was impossible and to heavy along with unreliable and too dangerous.
Dictators yo. Not high ranking extremists that follow them. Maybe the Emperor? We never really hear the Emperors role in the war even though he's the fundamental part of Japanese Facism.
@@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724 Ahh... I see. Technically the army officers are sadistic enough to be dictators, seeing that they have some sort of power? idk
Hideki Tojo was NOT a Dictator in the same way that Stalin, Mao or Hitler were. The Totalitarian Regime in Japan was a Collective Effort and there was never One Specific Person to hold power in Japan and they've always had Multipe Political Parties. Tojo was only made famous by his Personal Hatred for the USA; otherwise he was no different than all the Other Japanese Military Officers.
Seeing two left and two right figures to spell out a lot more of what totalitarian dictators are capable of. Not just exploiting, but what they want to exploit. Stalin wanted factories where Leopold wanted forest products. Each of their atrocities were massive in scale and how complete it was able to be carried out, something you show well in the video despite the many different political reasonings around them (both real and official lines from evil empires trying to save face).
There are no figures from the right on this list. Hitler and Stalin shared more in common than probably any two opposing figures in history. Nazism is a left wing ideology, no matter how much leftists try to claim otherwise. Does centralized control of all parts of society, including business, sound right-wing? If you say yes, you've never looked at the right.
@@dpt6849 that is not more accurate. Centralized control of the economy, suppression of dissent, elimination of human rights whenever they conflict with the state's agenda, destruction of religion, concentration camps, do I need to go on? These regimes cannot be on opposite sides of any political spectrum that makes sense when they share all major characteristics.
@@reliantncc1864 Those are authoritarian characteristics because they’re dictators. Imo, authoritarian right wing and authoritarian left wing are basically the same. They’re both evil and quite literally the closest thing to 1984. I mean that with no irony, some countries seem to take that book as if it was an instruction manual.
"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic." - Winston Churchill
Quote some of the stuff he said about black people and Indians and developing countries too before trying to put him in a "leader of the free world" type of light lol. Churchill wasn’t a dictator to his own people but he sure was to the rest of the world!
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Good old Joseph Stalin I don't know why he never gets the props he deserves they always feel like Hitler outshines him but Stalin got numbers up there
He was a terrible man
Winners wrote history if you only knew,Communism is the worst evil on earth.
@@daneboro6847 Yes, we're aware - history that shows why everyone in the war made some pretty fucking abhorrent decisions, or downright braindead decisions.
Let's not forget US forces ignoring intelligence that there's an ambush in a town, then walking into that town, getting ambushed, getting massacred, and being surprised.
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Stalin was a great man.
Massive respect for putting king Leopold II next to these other monsters, he deserves it
Çurçill too
As a history major I’ve done many essays and studies on Leopold it astounds me how he isn’t a household name
The history on that one is mainly the fault of the rubber companies rather than Leopold.
For sheer brutality, Leopold definitely wins (though the African chiefs were also extremely brutal against each other's tribes).
@@HENSIONAVDUli Churchill 100% did some terrible and monstrous things he wasn't a dictator nor pure evil like some of these others.
Leopold II: No no, you misunderstand. The people aren't free, I got the state for free."
lmaoooo
To be fair to those dictators.
I've found this article worth sharing. I'm surprised Ukraine is on the list. What was the coup about?
In an attempt to quantify U.S. warmaking, I’ve copied below lists from these sources:
William Blum: America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy
Dr. Zoltan Grossman: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions
James Lucas: U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People
Source
Davidswanson warlist
Here is Blum’s list of U.S. attempts to overthrow governments (* indicates success):
China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
[arguably, Syria 1949 needs to be added to this list. -DS]
The above list does not include numerous coups by U.S.-trained fighters, such as (other than Honduras) those discussed here: “from Isaac Zida of Burkina Faso, Haiti’s Philippe Biamby, and Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia to Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan, and the IMET-educated leaders of the 2009 coup in Honduras, not to mention Mali’s Amadou Sanogo.”
These are just in very recent years, by no means a complete list, though the Haiti coup referenced here was earlier than the one included in the list above.
We might want to the list of U.S.-backed coups: Venezuela 2018. We should certainly add Bolivia 2019. Also Venezuela 2019. And Venezuela 2020. And it seems we need to add New Zealand 1987. Also Guinea 2021, Mali 2021, Mauritania 2008, Mali 2012, Egypt 2013, Burkina Faso 2015, Mali 2020, etc.
We might want to add to the list of coups by U.S.-trained troops: these from a 2022 report in The Intercept: “Since 2008, U.S.-trained officers have attempted at least nine coups (and succeeded in at least eight) across five West African countries, including Burkina Faso (three times), Guinea, Mali (three times), Mauritania, and the Gambia.” Also in 2022, Democracy Now reported on these coups by U.S. trainees just in Africa: Chad 2021, Mali 2021, Mali 2020, Guinea 2021, Sudan 2021, Bukina Faso 2022.
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I am from Congo and I understand how that feels but the way my fellow Congolese people were treated as inhumane
@@maryrukundo2907 Can you explain the issue the Congolese people have with the Tutsi people? Because i can't understand the reason behind the atrocities i have seen online.
@@maryrukundo2907 which one cuz there's two 🙄
As someone who is part congolais I’m glad you added the history of the Congo
I'm not...
@@professionalpookie why
@@shakespearishot71 because your mom isn't either
@@professionalpookie are you mentally challenged? this response made 0 sense.
@@shakespearishot71 glad youve stopped responding. some people are just childish and its actually embarrassing to watch.
Those Congo animations were brutal.. just the thought of getting your hand cut off while pretending to be dead is insane!!
Right
The scary truth is that we do not know what other atrocities these dictators have done that have not yet been revealed.
Seems like the black soldiers are the problem you know stealing and hiding bullets cutting off black people's hands to show what happened to those bullets it mainly is the black soldiers that are doing all the abuse and horrible ugly things I didn't see no white people cutting off no hands or beating nobody with a whip
As well as the forgotten war crimes that were committed by the Japanese in World war 2
or other dictators.
@@theriddlemethispersongoldeneye Not necessarily forgotten, but the numbers are smaller
Exactly
Imagine living through a gulag just for it to be made into a meme by people who never heard of it until call of duty.
I would've preferred my suffering in a gulag to memed by CoD over being completely forgotten. Atleast It would spark interest in the subject.
@@M0rshu64 Idk if i agree or not but interesting.
@@M0rshu64 the people who actually been in one are from a different generation and probably wouldnt find it very humorous also cod players dont have the best idea what a real gulag actually was because to them its just a place to fight over a spot back in the game
I was talking to this one Russian lady. She was about 23 or 24. And she moved to LA around 2015. She never knew what the Gulag was. I was shocked. Her own parents hid it from her.
@Jay Will6 That's usually how it goes. Ask the average 23 year old Japanese what he/she thinks about Unit 731 and Nanking.
King Leopold was a monster I wonder why we don't hear too much about him in school but they focus on Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao.
Because he is from West. You cant hear much about their crimes and genocides.
@@djordjemarkovic1389both Mussolini and Hitler were from western countries
@@djordjemarkovic1389yes of course Germany and Italy are neighbor of China and Vietnam
@@poomann Belgium is not as popular and didnt really play much in world politics aside from being invaded. Also it depends on who is writing the narrative. You never hear about America and their incredible war crimes (seriously look up the my lai massacre in vietnam) because most of the times theyre the ones dictating history. Thus they're always the heroes in their eyes
@@MarvoloSalazar take today as a win, Kissinger is dead.
This feels like the kind of history that’s just worth knowing about. Many people go through life ignorant of the events that shaped the current world 🌎
It's quite weird though that America isn't mentioned with all the civilians killed in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan etc etc etc etc, innit?
@@Escritorez It’s a video of dictators, not governments. Plus this is a history channel, Iraq and Afghanistan is more contemporary and not considered history yet, since at least 50 years needs to pass in order for historians to get all the facts and make analyses on it.
@@GigaSigmaChadOmega Vietnam then? Korea? Genocide of native americans? And so on and so on and so on...
Stalin literally killed more than Hitler and yet being a Stalin fan is okay.
@@gustavabensberg4260 We’ve never really fought him in any war directly and they’ve never lost like Hitler did. The losers of any war are often deemed as terrible people because they were on the losing side and countries such as the US had to dehumanize them and justify going to war with them.
0:06 Soviet Supreme Leader Joseph Stallin
5:30 Gulag Soviet Prison Camp
7:24 King of Belgium Leopold II and Cruel Congo Colony(New version)
17:17 Chinese Leadership Mao Zedong and The Great Leap Foward program
25:31 King of Belgium Leopold II and Cruel Congo Colony(Old version)
33:24 Mao Zedong Little Red Book
36:56 Operation Valkarie Asssasination attempt of Adolf Hitler by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg
45:09 Day in the Life of Joseph Stallin
53:13 Adolf Hitler's personal Train the Führersonderzug
I literally jumped at Operation Valkyrie 😳
Mao zedong: most peaceful chinese emperor
I guess that's why Deng Xiaoping introduced the One-child policy to control Chinese population growth for decades after Mao Zedong's death? Were you planning to write a script to sequel of dumb and dumber? China achieved an ice-breaking diplomatic miracle under Mao.
Most voters want democratic rights without responsibility. That's why they conveniently blame China for their problems. They forget that the power to elect their own leaders comes with responsibility. Which voter doesn't yearn to enjoy a good life? Is there really a need to vote for a better life? But why can't most democratic societies live up to public expectation to deliver what they demand?
This deplorable culture to scapegoat foreign partners and competition of Western democracy means that socioeconomic development challenges are never fundamentally addressed. Chickens eventually come home to roost. Nobody may have the cake, and eat it too. Nobody can forever escape the moment of reckoning. Humanity is past the point of no return.
I hope to admire the 5,000-year history of Taiwan and Hong Kong. Seriously. Qin Shihuang is immortalized in history books for changing the course of history. Put simply, China won't exist without his epic revolutionary unification of the warring states. Julius Caesar too, made his mark in a turbulent world by creating the Roman empire, which would since remain the pride of the West.
But who will remember Lee Kuan Yew in 500 years? Make no mistake. Lee's version of “benevolent dictatorship” is widely appreciated by his own people for boosting their living standards. However, Singapore's founding father deemed it fit to erect a statue of Sir Stamford Raffles by the Singapore river in tribute to former British colonial rule.
There's a fundamental difference between a genuine visionary who would materialize a tectonic shift in regional balance of power to reshape the geopolitical landscape and a masterful follower who made a fortune for his family while leading a young citystate to unprecedented affluence worthy of global envy under the prevailing international order.
Mao ended decades of international isolation, blockade and boycott to bring the PRC into the United Nations as a permanent member of the security council. China achieved a diplomatic breakthrough to mend ties with the West via the historic ping pong diplomacy, amid the Cold War, at the height of the Cultural Revolution.
twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1739585175770497473?t=NZeOektSzGX7Z5-nsWuurQ&s=19
习近平如果以秦孝公为榜样，大刀阔斧推行法律政治方面的改革，竞争对手从此就不会有好日子过了。你已经掉入了 false dichotomy 的意识形态陷阱，天真认为世界就是所谓集权专政 vs 美国霸权主导的所谓民主体制。你相信民主，所以支持霸权主义。我质疑民主体制的绝对普世优越性，所以坚决反对霸权主义。民主国家支持霸权，实属自欺欺人的伪君子作风。
中共有自知之明，并非坏事。生于忧患，死于安乐。习近平的中庸之道，是否一定让人感觉优柔寡断？新加坡与西方如果对自身的体制过度自信，总是自我感觉良好优越，更有可能出现战略误判，掉入盲点陷阱。这也并非好事。中国走中国该走的路。新加坡人不必为一个五千年文明，杞人忧天。中国的智慧与文化底蕴，或许是你一辈子，都无法理解的。习近平如果真的独断专行，香港著名景点就不会以殖民统治者英国女王维多利亚命名。Queen Victoria: “The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.”
where Winston Churchill and their genocides?
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Yeah the British had the biggest empire in the world, yet not even one of their leader is up there. 🤡
If they all sat together at a dinner table the k/d ratio in that room would be crazy
Most narcissists hate other narcissists so I bet one of them might try and increase their kill count at that dinner
SBMM would go nuts
Be more of a KDA
Especially Stalin and Hitler
It would be like 100,000,000 / 4
That king Leopold piece is incredible. I think seeing this in an animation takes away from the sheer horror. I saw a pic from Congo taken with a woman who had her hand missing and a kid in a cage and two white kids smiling, between the woman and the kid in the cage. Chilling pic the look in the eyes is as if their defeated.
I would’ve liked to learn more about this in school to show that every country can be evil, even a small country like belgium (im dutch)
its also an exagerated lie
For eternity
@@tintinmilou9471 Okay King Leonidas the second.
There was no need t point out the races of the 2 mean kids.
Always remember...
No one thinks of themself as evil.
Very true, which is why self reflection is especially important. These individuals had much in common in that they were focused on how they were treated, though never considerate of how they were with others. They were total victims in their own stories
Dahmer did
@@kanegarvey848 He wasnt evil though. He was just very messed up and did some horrible things. He wasnt pleased with himself though.
@@LaZarusXtnct I mean I'd consider him evil.
@@kanegarvey848 I think he had some level of remorse, which contradicts the concept of a person being evil.
A few who DEFINITELY belong on the list, but weren't mentioned: 1) Pol Pot. He perpetrated, per-capita, the greatest genocide in modern history. 2) The "Emperor" Bokasa of the Central African Republic (re-named "Empire," by him. One of his claims-to-fame, was personally beating to death, a large number of children, who wouldn't wear a school uniform designed by his brother. He also depleted his nation's treasury, to fund his "coronation." 3) Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. Among other things, he personally tortured prisoners, in a dungeon he set up in the basement of the National Palace, he created the "Ton-Ton Macoutes," his private torture & death squad, and changed the "Lord's Prayer" to apply to him---"Our Doc, who art in the National Palace..." Idi Amin, of course, who traveled about Uganda with a portable guillotine, beheading potential opponents, and was reputedly a cannibal (I think Bokasa was, too). Kim Il Sung, the "Great Leader," and both "Baby Kims," for numerous reasons. There are plenty of "runner-ups," but I think the ones I've listed were the worst of the worst.
was ganna say Pol Pot. the man-child that killed millions
@@spiderzvow1 I remember seeing on TV, an interview with the monster, while he was in exile in China. He was in tears!....NOT tears of guilt or regret. He was all broken up, because people just didn't understand that it was NECESSARY for him to have done what he did!
@@Cythiv Perhaps I should have been specific, since there are SO many of them! I was referring to Cambodian one.
I heard pol pot died peacefully in America somewhere I wish I knew he was here
Nobody ever mentions pol pot ):
It is a sad thing that there are so many people capable and willing to commit such heinous and evil acts.
When you have *power,* you are *_free_* _to _*_act_* _who_ you *_TRULY_* are.
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket I can't believe you guys can't relate to them, they are the best role models to be followed on how to be good at politics
Everyone is Capable of Such evil. But refuse to do such to others, those in power are usually prone to this.
we are all capable of doing evil, and it is and will always be until Eve says sorry for eating that apple with Adam.
Weimar problems require Weimar solutions.
The huge crowds didnt go to Stalins funeral to pay their respects, but to confirm that he really died
I did a presentation about King Leopold ll, the stories were truly disturbing and it broke my heart having to research about this disgusting situation.
Hey at least you were brave enough to dig through the truth and not ignore or dismiss the facts 👍🏾💯
Does anyone know of any movies about this? Seems like a good movie
@Whyllow Films... and DISGUSTING INDIVIDUAL (King Leopold)...
This was not a movie.@@bradleysmith9431
“This enraged his father, who punished him severely.”
4:36-5:18 The Death of Stalin in a nutshell. I love that movie!
At first, I was surprised you didn’t mention Beria at all during the portion about Stalin. But then I realized that he’s another story. Beria was truly sick and evil beyond repair.
In the end, Beria got a taste of his own medicine. It was said he cried like a little girl begging for his life. To no avail, of course.
I think they did mention Beria
I just looked him up. Yikes... Not only did he organize the extermination of 22,000 polish people, it's believed he was a serial killer and serial rapist as well.
They did, but not extensively. For instance, they never talk about Beria’s sadistic habit of torturing people for his own amusement. He was so messed up that even Stalin didn’t let his own daughter around him
It's still a whitewashed story of Stalin, ignoring his paedophiliac escapades and the "famine" being a deliberate genocide to replace populations with more.loyal rural russians. Specifically, Holodomor starved Ukrainians to death and Kazakhstan famine was also a deliberate ethnic cleansing. On top of that, he declared ALL Crimean Tatars genetically fascist, exiled them all to Siberia (most dying on the way), and only allowed white people to live in Ukrainian Crimea.
0:07 joseph Stalin
7:26 king Léopold II
17:17 mao zendong (great leap forward)
25:33 king Léopold the II (again)
33:26 Mao Zedong (little red book)
36:57 adolf hitler (assasinstion plan)
45:12 joseph Stalin (again)
53:17 adolf hitler (means of travel)
Thank you
Where. Is. Pol Pot.
Where. Is. Idi Amin.
Where. Is. Saddam Hussein.
Why isn't Lenin in this list. He's the one that Stalin followed. He and his people killed the tsar and his family,children
Im new to the history of leopold n the Congo & I’m absolutely disgusted n traumatized simply from hearing the stories. I can’t imagine what the descendants of that country must feel. Wow, thanks for covering this
@@dr.plagueman4226 spoken like a true suspected white supremacist, thanks
Their descendands dont feel anything as it was way b4 our times ...u are just like most blacks nowadays being racist and trying to lay blame on all white ppl yet u forget that most if not all this was only possible if their own people sold em out just like happened with slaverny...by ur train of thoughts all muslims are also terrorists cuz they killed ppl in cold blood
@Dr. Plagueman I could give a flying f less how those apes feel or think.
@@Jeremy-ff7gv oh my, you jumping to conclusions says more about you than me. You sound just like a white supremacist, don’t project sir
@Dr. Plagueman thank god I’m so happy your a trump Q guy it makes so much sense lmao
Just as a point of correction the bomb that was used in Operation Valkyrie was 30mins long not 10mins. Also he had intended to use 2 but was only able to set up 1.
Don't trust this
@luckynoyaga92 thanks
@@tuah6252 lol
To be fair to those dictators.
I've found this article worth sharing. I'm surprised Ukraine is on the list. What was the coup about?
In an attempt to quantify U.S. warmaking, I’ve copied below lists from these sources:
William Blum: America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy
Dr. Zoltan Grossman: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions
James Lucas: U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People
Source
Davidswanson warlist
Here is Blum’s list of U.S. attempts to overthrow governments (* indicates success):
China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
[arguably, Syria 1949 needs to be added to this list. -DS]
The above list does not include numerous coups by U.S.-trained fighters, such as (other than Honduras) those discussed here: “from Isaac Zida of Burkina Faso, Haiti’s Philippe Biamby, and Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia to Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan, and the IMET-educated leaders of the 2009 coup in Honduras, not to mention Mali’s Amadou Sanogo.”
These are just in very recent years, by no means a complete list, though the Haiti coup referenced here was earlier than the one included in the list above.
We might want to the list of U.S.-backed coups: Venezuela 2018. We should certainly add Bolivia 2019. Also Venezuela 2019. And Venezuela 2020. And it seems we need to add New Zealand 1987. Also Guinea 2021, Mali 2021, Mauritania 2008, Mali 2012, Egypt 2013, Burkina Faso 2015, Mali 2020, etc.
We might want to add to the list of coups by U.S.-trained troops: these from a 2022 report in The Intercept: “Since 2008, U.S.-trained officers have attempted at least nine coups (and succeeded in at least eight) across five West African countries, including Burkina Faso (three times), Guinea, Mali (three times), Mauritania, and the Gambia.” Also in 2022, Democracy Now reported on these coups by U.S. trainees just in Africa: Chad 2021, Mali 2021, Mali 2020, Guinea 2021, Sudan 2021, Bukina Faso 2022.
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Did you get this from the Tom cruise movie lol
The Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha was also very cruel. His torture methods and executions were shocking, tens of thousands were killed during his rule in Albania (1945-1985). Maybe a video about him in the future?
Sounds like a great guy
@@collinthegamer510 He did many good things for Albania, the Albanian military was one of the best in Europe and one of the greatest in the world, Albania was the country with the highest soldiers per capita (out of a population of 3 milion, there were 700k soldiers), but Enver Hoxha's policies towards his political and ideological enemies were very cruel, the Albanian camps (gulags) were brutal and harsh during the Communist Era.
Do one about what if Cold War begun
Lol
No one cares about Albania unfortunately
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Thank god Leopold II was included
It's about time people know about King Leopold and how much of a MONSTER he truly was.
It’s the same with Pol Pot, and Idi Amin-both terrible, and arguably worst than _evil mustache man,_ but no one seems to discuss them.
Jews suppress information about any other atrocities, because they need the attention on them at all times. And there are museums of it in every country and city. After all, that's how they get billions from every country each year. "We need it :( We're just small guys being bullied.. with the power of a US Military.. and our enemies are children throwing rocks"
What a depressing culture.
Leopold's descendants officially apologised to the people of the Congo for the atrocities not too long ago.
@Dr. Plagueman even Stalin. He industrialized Russia in only a few years, but he did it off the backs of slaves. It doesn’t matter how evil someone is, there will always be someone that admires them.
@Napoleon Bonaparte ? You said f Africa? Africa dead peoples ghost madness near you white easy
The way people forgets about king leopold annoys me
Ummm Khmer Rouge. Indonesia in new guniea and Timor leste oh hold on knocking at my doo-
You forgot to include General Hector Aldozar of Isla Island (later renamed Bananarama) who became the most brutal dictator in Isla Island's history. He was so brutal, he earned the nickname "El Bailarín De La Muerta," which translates to "The Dancer of Death".
He might just have Been pissed “bananarama” seriously?
The way you subtly worked in an American Dad reference!! Pure F***ing Genius!!! 😂 😂 😂
@@victorlolxd7347THATS WHAT IM SAYING 😭😭😭
Yeah, but he was a helluva dancer.
"Welcome to Bananarama, where it's party time all the time".
One note- the Cold War was not started single handedly. FDR was very willing to work with the USSR, whereas Truman was far more distrustful of the USSR. The division of Germany was a huge sticking point between the Allies, and without FDR you had two leaders who were unwilling to budge
Maybe because Communism is the enemy of freedom.
@@dansmith1661 Saudi Arabia has very friendly relations with the US despite being a bloody monarchy that can kill American citizens at its pleasure
The history of the Cold War would certainly be, objectively, a history of two sides that barely understood each other working hard to screw each other over, while making disastrous decisions that set their own interests back repeatedly. The west, for example, pushed for a "containment" policy that would confine the Soviets to a limited area of power and influence, while the Soviet Russians felt existentially threatened without a comfortable buffer zone between themselves and their enemies - the different psychologies would drive the two sides to constantly do things that would heighten the insecurity and paranoia of their opponents. (This is, arguably, the history of more than just the Cold War, as much the same thing could be said of many counterproductive history-making decisions made since the establishment of the League of Nations and its successor, the United Nations, in the name of maintaining a "balance of power" and a "world order", such as the disastrous decisions that led to the secret treaties that sparked WWI, or the no less disastrous Treaty of Versailles that made WWII all but inevitable....)
Fdr was a beta leader and subservient to the USSR
they shouldn't have allied with the USSR
The fact that atrocities in The Congo‘s isn‘t spoken about enough is very sad near 10 million deaths half a population…
West doesnt want to talk about their crimes, i saw a comment of a Belgian that said theres still statues of the dictator. they arent even sorry
I think most of them were because of diseases brought by Europeans or famine but still sad ❤
Is that in King Leopold's time or the senseless killings and murders that have been happening since 1996? At least 5.4 million people have been killed up to 2007. It seems sources claim the death toll is 1000 people a day. Current research has the figure around 7 million and climbing as of 2023. The cobalt mines are a major cause of the violence and also the claims by the Congo that at least $1 billion of cobalt has been smuggled by Rwanda. Many Rwandans have joined the rebel M23 faction.
That’s because people dehumanize black people
@@Tankzenia What do you mean? Western countries constantly talk about Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini...
The Congo: *exists*
Leopold the 2nd: It's free real estate
Exactly 😢
People criticize hitler but those same people praise Stalin.
I know 13 years old communists be like 😅
@@Haryad-11 fr bro
No
Exactly it’s cringe
Uh yep. Same with roles reversed to be fair but if you take a stance against one your often labelled as the other. It’s a sick and fucked up cycle and if there was a Time Machine available, let’s just say a majority of smart people would make a B-line straight for Marx.
problem is that leopold used native congolese officers to commit atrocities on their very own people
To this day (apparently), King Leopold II is considered to have been a great king, in Belgium, with numerous statues honoring him, due to his many public works projects.
Such a shame that they continue to honor a man who committed such a heinous act.
The number of kids in central Africa named Leopold is perplexing, too
@@Nicky2414 Maybe, it's not something Belgians learn about. Also, I'm pretty sure that Japanese school-children are never told about the HORRIBLE atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in WW2. And I wonder, how many U.S. generals, highly honored for their accomplishments in the Civil War, went on, to massacre Indians?
Lol
He was the greatest King Belgium ever had
Since you guys have talked about the Congo Free State a few times, I would like to see if you guys could cover a video on the Congo-Arab War. It was a proxy war between the Congo Free State and various groups of East African slave traders led by Sefu bin Hamid that lasted from 1892 to January 1894.
Although not talked AT ALL in discussions regarding slavery, Arabs were the biggest perpetrators of Western/Transatlantic Slave Trade. Chained Africans would be gathered all around Sahel, then would be sold to Europe or America via Ottomans or Spanish/Portuguese.
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Just sat down to eat dinner and saw Simple History uploaded a new video, and it's over an hour! Feeling blessed.
I love how the dictators are playing with toys menacingly.
Like lord helmet?
Me too
Yeah and what price they have to pay at the end with blood on they're hands...
Yeah I love to see them play with your family as toys like that😂😂😂
The different sized pupils of Stalin during his animated stroke was a nice touch
I’m surprised pol pot didn’t make the list . The guy killed his own race and work them till death not to mention the torture and abuse.
Amin and Mugabe
Because his victims weren't Black or Jewish.
Make a video on one of the most major battles or events of the Yugoslav Wars. Like the Srebrenica Massacre or the Siege of Sarajevo
Yeah and like all the civilians killed by NATO bombings.
Or the bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO
Siege of Knin (1995)
@@sachoune3416 hhahahaa bulsht 😂😂. MLADIC was a war criminal .
@@sachoune3416 a war criminal
As Klaus Schenk Grav Von Stauffenberg was recovering from the injuries he suffered in Tunisia, he joked with friends about how before then he hadn't known what to do with so many fingers.
You hand to hand it to him though. It is hard when one can't point the finger.
Very good job fellows!! Congratulations.
This feels like the kind of history that’s just worth knowing about. Many people go through life ignorant of the events that shaped the current world 🌎
Pretty known quote but those who do not remember history are bound to repeat it please understand this is why we must learn about these terrible atrocities 😔
Agreed, if we dont know history we will repeat it
It's a good day when simple history uploads
Damm straight
Except when it’s a compilation of reuploads…I understand this content takes time to make but then like…just don’t upload repeats?
Mainly it looks like black soldiers abusing black civilians to me I didn't see any White cartoons beating people with whips or cutting people's hands off or having big buckets of hands so they could steal bullets it was mainly black people doing it to each other
Oh I love seeing the USSR videos ..... Hope they were happy with what they voted for lol lol
It started pretty good, but than it began jumping back and forth between diffeereent Leaders , repating itself and became a mess.
Yeah, it does lose some rating points for being a bit random and repetitive in the presentation: it clearly started its life as a collection of separate videos that were recorded over and extended period of time and then stapled together without any obvious design involved in the order other than something arbitrary, like the date of recording or whatever...
Stalin's mother was not an ethnic russian but a georgian. She never wanted her son to become a priest, she sent her son to the seminary of Tbilissi because it was the best educational institute in the Caucasus.
Those monsters are disgusting! But I'm still scratching my head as to how Hitler not only survived, only his trousers got messed up.
I never heard he survived
@@sulynn72 Did you even watch the video?
pol pot (khmer rouge) wouldve been a nice add to the list. either way, subscribed.
Oh lucky you. Tons of great videos to pour through on this channel.
what are oyu really trying to say here? hmm? well well well
6:39
Thanks so much for adding Alex Mason and Viktor Reznov to the Gulag video!
"My name is Viktor Reznov! And I will get my revenge!" -Mason black ops 1
There should be dictators around ancient times like Rome, Japan, or sometime I read in Asian history that this military ruler Choe Chung-heon made himself and family as dictators. Should be stories like this.
If to count not only formal dictators but also other rulers and also medieval plus early modern ages - exactly yes (Rome: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Nero, Heliogabalus; Japan: Takeda Shingen, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi; China: Qin Shi Huang, Cao Cao), but anyway the scale of their acts and victims was less than of modern (XIX-XX centuries) dictators due to a lack of relevant means (a scarcity of population, technological backwardness).
@@研究生在宇宙的各個方 its just human nature. competition, greed, lust hate etc. there will always be dictators and you never see them coming because any great idea has to have a leader and people always pick the most charismatic can-do guy for the job and like all of us, they let it go to their heads and egos not all but a lot. power is most seductive. It's a responsibility that most shouldn't have for very long if not at all .and nobody is immune to seduction you need discipline a humble heart etc. it would be very hard to be a real leader without making mistakes and I'm not defending the evil dictators! power can lead you in directions you didn't see coming until it's too late and quicker for those who are evil. If you want perfect leaders, you need to be perfect people are we no! and no excuses for the evil ones.
I like the fact that there is Reznov and Mason from Black Ops at 6:42. Nice one
7:20 gulags never went away though. They are still there, if not more. Just slightly more hidden, unless you can access sat photos on clear weather days
Amazed to see Leopold on the list, good on you for adding him
Well, gulags are coming back, it's just as visible, as the communist parties of North America hides all the undersirables in the prisons.
Big difference is before they were used to ethnically cleanse the Slavic Christian population now they are just prisons
@@kaisercollins3097 yeah, I'm sure that no ethnic cleansing is going on.....
@@theoriginalJP ok there are no laws regarding Slavic Christianity in the nation of Ukraine. Good to know I thought Zelensky had been trying to outlaw it
@@kaisercollins3097 all l
King Leopold was said to have low connection to the congo Belgium private companies. Pol pot deserves to be on the list
24:39-24:55
The subtle noises in the background really psyched me out lol.
I'm listening to this at the hospital with earbuds in and I thought I was hearing a patient scream over the audio. I would take them out and it was silence. Put then back in and there it was again. Took a couple times to realize it was the video lol.
The dictators always forget that it is not possible to cling on to power for an infinite time.
Where's Pol Pot, he deserves to be in there as well
My great grandmother borned in Krasnodar then Stalin war ruling USSR... She was from a Greek family of Pontus... Lot of Greeks from Pontus ( same as Armenians and Georgians) sent in Kazakhstan to build towns or work in the coal mines... Lot of her countries sent to the Gulags... And as you think, they never returned...
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Mariupol, Crimea, and rest of Southern Ukraine had a huge Greek diaspora, like the Azov Greeks... Same fate really. The whole Soviet Union engaged in ethnic cleansing on major level, working minorities to death, it just doesn't get as mentioned because nobody counted the shoes of people building Trans-Siberian railway.
@@KasumiRINAyo, any proof of that? Can't find any historic references to this info
Everyone: King Leopold II what the heck is this? Mass slavery and using hands as money? Is this true? Leopold: no… 😅
DON'T reply to the other reply...."It's a trap!!!" - General Akbar!!!
I am Congolese and I know this is true
Wow I am going to spend all night watching your videos because they are so intriguing! Among the best stuff on UA-cam.
Once I saw dictator, I knew Mao is definitely gonna be a part of it
Jinping awaits his seat there. Hes not going to be remembered well.
Does that emoji mean ur a member of the channel??
Great video but horrifying at the same time. I don't even know what words could describe Stalin and Hitler, anything would be an understatement.
What Leopold did was by far worse than US slavery, yet Belgium were never held to account for genocide and have never made reparations, yet it is the seat of the European Government.
Becoz apparently the People of Belgium and his own Ministers were not with him. He conquered Congo with help of private companies.
26:20 check here
The reason Stalingrad was defended at all costs was not because of name, but mostly because of strategic importance. If Stalingrad fell, the Nazis could have cut off much of the Soviet oil supplies, and worse, diverted the oil for their own use. Both sides knew this, and both sides fought bitterly because of this.
It's name was one of the reasons for defending the city though.
@@Athenaa13Its name was the reason the Soviets dug in their heels at Stalingrad. Over and beyond its already considerable strategic importance, it was simply inconceivable that Stalin's City should ever be allowed to fall.
Stalin, a Georgian: Reads about Georgian independence.
Stalin: Becomes supreme leader of the Soviet Union
Georgia: You'll give us independence right?
Stalin: 🗿
But he did promote Georgian culture in USSR and Georgia was persecuted lesser compared to other SSRs including Russia. Also many of his close associates like Lavrentiy Beria were of Georgian origin. Also Georgia didn't face famines like in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
@@gocool_2.0 Lol what, he suppressed many Rebellion's in Georgia and killed many people during purge Lavrentiy Beria became a high official not because he was Georgian but because he supported Stalin
@@giorgijioshvili9713 That's true. He persecuted everyone. The first targets were turkic tribes. I just told Georgian persecution was somewhat milder compared to other SSRs
@@gocool_2.0 probably because other SSR's had larger population's
@@giorgijioshvili9713 I guess you're a Georgian. What do you guys think about Stalin? I've seen mixed comments.
The movie Apocalypse Now (book, Heart of Darkness) is fictionally based on the Congolese slavery and massacre.
Nice easter egg at 6:42 with Mason and Rezenov from BlackOps
That’s what I’m saying I just noticed
Different nations have their own most evil, based on their unique history. In the case of Ireland, I think the vast majority would say Oliver Cromwell was the worst in our history but for me it is another Englishman called George Carew, 1555-1629. He was a psycho who had people restrained so he could strangle them. As President of Munster, Carew had his men throw 300 people from the cliffs of Dursey Island in southwest Ireland. These were mostly young children, pregnant women, the elderly and infirm. They were tied together in twos and threes before being thrown to their deaths. Carew also beseiged a remote outpost and butchered 500 men there. When they attempted to surrender, Carew hung the messenger before killing every last man. His long career, saturated in the blood of Irish innocents, makes him my nominee for history`s most evil. May God have mercy on his soul.
What about Pol Pot, the most cruel dictator who killed 2.5 from 7 million inhabbitants in cambodja?
What about Churchill . He killed 3M people . (The Bengal famine )
@@HENSIONAVDUli
He didn’t.. it’s a myth
@@SuddenStrike_HQ he did .îs the true
@@SuddenStrike_HQ 🤓🤓🤓
Bruh
I like the use of Tom Cruise's likeness for Operation Valkyrie segment lol
They're all awful but I'm particularly disgusted with King Leopold II, maybe just because his atrocities aren't as widely known about.
Me too the things he did crowing removing hands beaten to death it’s horrible what he did😢
Mao killed the
Most
@@bond007spectre7 I think he killed 98M not even kidding
It's crazy how fucked up the world is and how much they don't tell you when you were in school
A video so good I wish it was longer
"the british empire was the most brutal empire to ever exist"
Belgium: Hold my "french fries"
Belgium: hold my waffles
Umm ghengis Kahn killed more people than anyone
Of all the super empires, the British was the 'least' brutal.
The British were never accused of genocide, and we pretty much abolished slavery in the west, and engineered anti-racism laws, before anyone else. And the Empire never fell, either. It was replaced with the Commonwealth, which still has 14 member states, and numbers almost 3 billion people.
The Romans, Greeks, China, Belgium, Mongols.... all were far worse and brutal than the British.
@@lonestar6709 Maybe you should know about benagal famine happened when India was under British control.
@@booksanimeenthusiast3802 maybe you should compare that to literally every famine that happened before and after the British control... And maybe you should look at the LITERAL Bollywood game of thrones that was happening there before the British set foot there
May the people who died by the actions of these monsters find peace in a better place....
@@Maowkz found the tankie.
Stalin is our hero. He eliminated the fifth column and gave us a nuclear bomb, which still does not allow the creatures from NATO to kill us all. Let those who are against him burn in the same pot with Gorbachev and Yeltsin. !
@@c0ya1 they’re so cringe🤣🤣
@@c0ya1 You can only wish you owned all the tanks and people. You've cried about every Chinese leader since Mao won anyway.
@@Maowkz Sorry, he wans't a monster, he was the reincarnation of the devil
"You hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation they turned to a man they didn't fully understand." -Alfred
Valkyrie would have succeded if the bomb was planted NEXT to Hitler but also still would have if they used double the explosion. However due to the weight and injuries Strauff had it was impossible and to heavy along with unreliable and too dangerous.
This is really heartbreaking. Such despicable people.
I think you're forgotting japan, hideki tojo, the empire, and numerous other japanese army officers
Korea and Manchuria.
Dictators yo. Not high ranking extremists that follow them. Maybe the Emperor? We never really hear the Emperors role in the war even though he's the fundamental part of Japanese Facism.
@@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724 Ahh... I see. Technically the army officers are sadistic enough to be dictators, seeing that they have some sort of power? idk
Hideki Tojo was NOT a Dictator in the same way that Stalin, Mao or Hitler were. The Totalitarian Regime in Japan was a Collective Effort and there was never One Specific Person to hold power in Japan and they've always had Multipe Political Parties. Tojo was only made famous by his Personal Hatred for the USA; otherwise he was no different than all the Other Japanese Military Officers.
@@caleblane7619 True tho
It's 3 AM and this is the 5th video I'm watching from this channel in a row, very entertaining
Next video- who would win hand to hand combat: Joseph Stalin, or Theodore Roosevelt
This battle would destroy the Earth.
Teddy Roosevelt would destroy Stalin in a fist fight.
Bruh Teddy was an actual boxer no popular world leader stands a chance against him
@@slavicemperor8279 But what if Stalin purges TR?
@@slavicemperor8279 And Teddy Roosevelt had military exp on top of that. So he's a expert on hand to hand fighting.
My favourite topic in Simple History. I love it.
T & A is my favorite historical topic.
I enjoy your videos. Have you done one on the molasses explosion in Boston in the early 1900's.
You're enjoying lies? I don't even feel sorry for sheep like you.
Mao should've learned: A great leap forward often requires first taking two steps back.
Imagine if all dictators in our history where in a discord call 💀
They wouldnt be able to understand each other.
It would be very Jewish.
@@dansmith1661oh look the generic teenage edgelord
@@dansmith1661 Jeeezzzzz, man.
"hitler brings his army"
Seeing two left and two right figures to spell out a lot more of what totalitarian dictators are capable of. Not just exploiting, but what they want to exploit. Stalin wanted factories where Leopold wanted forest products. Each of their atrocities were massive in scale and how complete it was able to be carried out, something you show well in the video despite the many different political reasonings around them (both real and official lines from evil empires trying to save face).
3 socialist you mean
There are no figures from the right on this list. Hitler and Stalin shared more in common than probably any two opposing figures in history. Nazism is a left wing ideology, no matter how much leftists try to claim otherwise. Does centralized control of all parts of society, including business, sound right-wing? If you say yes, you've never looked at the right.
@@reliantncc1864socialism is a leftwing branch. Better to divide that into the far left and far right. More accurate
@@dpt6849 that is not more accurate. Centralized control of the economy, suppression of dissent, elimination of human rights whenever they conflict with the state's agenda, destruction of religion, concentration camps, do I need to go on? These regimes cannot be on opposite sides of any political spectrum that makes sense when they share all major characteristics.
@@reliantncc1864 Those are authoritarian characteristics because they’re dictators. Imo, authoritarian right wing and authoritarian left wing are basically the same. They’re both evil and quite literally the closest thing to 1984. I mean that with no irony, some countries seem to take that book as if it was an instruction manual.
"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic." - Winston Churchill
Quote some of the stuff he said about black people and Indians and developing countries too before trying to put him in a "leader of the free world" type of light lol. Churchill wasn’t a dictator to his own people but he sure was to the rest of the world!
@@Arm6nn Funny that with the Bengali famine he killed almost as much as the Germans did with the Jews
Big words for a small fat man hiding behind his soldiers.
Was that before or after he gassed the iraqis, backstabbed the french at mers el kébir and starved the indians?
@ohDevil, whatever he said, he was probably right
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By body count it's Chairman Mao hands down.
Also by the number of living people who still admire him
Joseph Stalin 0:00 5:30 45:09
Leopold II 7:24 25:33
Mao Zedong 17:17 33:23
Adolf Hitler 36:57 53:15
Keep up the good work
Leopold's segment has to be the most disturbing and gruesome one in this video.
Love the long format videos, thank you.
Why isn't the British Monarchy mentioned? Asking for India 🇮🇳 Ireland 🇮🇪 Africa and Aboriginals of Canada 🇨🇦 , Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇳🇿
You should do one on the World Economic Forum and UN. Klaus Schwaub Bill Gates etc.
The biggest despots of W-europe!
Yep, globalists in general.
Oh I fell like this channel would get shut down then lol
I think that it's neat history that Chang Kai Checks defeated army dominated the Heroin trade for decades.
MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS PLEASE
42:42 Listen…i’m not gonna tell the military man how to do his job but…the moment that explosion goes off, you go back there and make sure he’s dead
Good material for a villain
The Gulag is not only correctional camps. They were engaged in any camps at all. From children's to medical