5 Worst Times & Places To Be Alive In Human History

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  • @Unknown5tv
    @Unknown5tv  7 років тому +1453

    If you had to live in one of these times, which would you choose?
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    • @wisewwaste1726
      @wisewwaste1726 7 років тому +206

      There was Nothing Right on No side of WW1

    • @unitedarabuprising3742
      @unitedarabuprising3742 7 років тому +100

      Unknown5 WW1

    • @joshproductions4283
      @joshproductions4283 7 років тому +120

      +WisewWaste I would consider anyone who gives their life for their country a "right" person

    • @wisewwaste1726
      @wisewwaste1726 7 років тому +69

      Still is My Country Branded as the "Bad guy" of History

    • @darktigre8214
      @darktigre8214 7 років тому +303

      I'd choose to be a young American alive during WW2. If I survived then I'd get to enjoy the postwar economic boom.

  • @MrAlforable
    @MrAlforable 7 років тому +5411

    My great grandpa told my mom the story of the probably unluckiest guy in history. His name was Dmitri (complicated surname, didn't memorize it) who lived in a place near Moscow, born in 1897. He served in first world war when he was 17, at 1917 came back home to face the civil war. He survived the spanish flu, worked as army officer, almost got killed in Stalin's great purge. Survived Winter war, fought in Stalingrad, fought through the Soviet attack on Germany (got wounded at Seelow, shot in stomach), almost died from sepsa, survived it. And on top of it all in 1949 ended up in Gulag, after 10 years came back home and died peacefully.
    Talk about Chuck Norris, this guy is a fuckin hard-ass legend.

    • @zharakov
      @zharakov 7 років тому +549

      Now that's a true survivor, most of us feel to weak or "tired" going over our daily work and stuff but this guy was a true fighter who fought till the end..

    • @MrAlforable
      @MrAlforable 7 років тому +266

      Zharakov from my recent military experience and from guys who were in combat, alot of guys leave the military after they kill someone, get alot of ptsd... But this guy was like holy shit, imagine his PTSD levels, how much death did he see, and on top of all that, Stalin's regime sends him in Gulag, a respectful warrior. I'm determined to my duty too, but if I was him, I'd say like: nah man fuck this shit

    • @MrAlforable
      @MrAlforable 7 років тому +81

      iGod He is not forgotten, my friend ;)

    • @zharakov
      @zharakov 7 років тому +101

      Completely agree with you man, I can't even stand watching beheadings on the internet, let alone getting into a real war MULTIPLE TIMES, this guy is something else, i would have loved to meet him.. this is true determination right here

    • @jayeisenhardt1337
      @jayeisenhardt1337 7 років тому +85

      Back in the day peeps was farmers and death was a natural everyday thing. Now here I am wonder if i should smash an insect or mercy killing a rodent.

  • @FayeBush381
    @FayeBush381 5 років тому +736

    My great grandfather served in both ww1 and ww2. And lived to 96 years old. I couldn't imagine how much pain he saw in his lifetime.

    • @stoney139
      @stoney139 5 років тому +63

      He also saw, and perhaps experienced, quite a bit of suffering. May he RIP. Much respect!!!

    • @michaeldoran4367
      @michaeldoran4367 5 років тому +28

      What a guy! RIP

    • @jocelynndotson7273
      @jocelynndotson7273 5 років тому +12

      My great grand father was in the war too he was at D-day June 6th

    • @DeadlyMustard
      @DeadlyMustard 5 років тому +6

      That's absolutely nuts, props to him for sure!

    • @chrisroberts7428
      @chrisroberts7428 5 років тому +6

      I know this is super late in the conversation... but would you mind sharing what year he was either born or the year he died?
      I really am curious to get an idea of exactly how much stuff he had either witnessed or was just alive for during significant world events and affairs

  • @harrywayney1119
    @harrywayney1119 6 років тому +3054

    Thank your ancestors for surviving all these tragic times just so you can sit down and watch UA-cam.

    • @jacobblack2696
      @jacobblack2696 5 років тому +158

      What a waste of their hardships 😂😂

    • @markusmitchell8585
      @markusmitchell8585 5 років тому +3

      Harry Muller why don't you

    • @ArkansasGamer
      @ArkansasGamer 5 років тому +5

      Lol y'all cuckolds tripping. UA-cams amazing. 😌

    • @ArkansasGamer
      @ArkansasGamer 5 років тому +16

      @Jason Stark it is what you make it my friend. Blessings 🙏

    • @dannyc6364
      @dannyc6364 5 років тому +16

      The people who lived through #1 contributed to the baby boom after world war 2. I would have never had children that could possibly go through that same hell themselves. We came very close to a full on nuclear war, which would have dwarfed the numbers of dead from anything else, and left the few survivors with a radioactive wasteland.

  • @josephr2060
    @josephr2060 4 роки тому +985

    It is crazy how ungrateful people are today about current society. This really is the most peaceful time that ever existed within our human civilization.

    • @robrowboski3057
      @robrowboski3057 4 роки тому +42

      Yeah meanwhile we’re all fighting to wipe our asses in

    • @jeffthevomitguy1178
      @jeffthevomitguy1178 4 роки тому +26

      @The Anthropologist _Forensic you sound like Elliot Rodger.

    • @jeffthevomitguy1178
      @jeffthevomitguy1178 4 роки тому +6

      @The Anthropologist _Forensic definitely...

    • @lucaszhao5802
      @lucaszhao5802 4 роки тому +8

      this will age beautifully

    • @maaz322
      @maaz322 4 роки тому +49

      @The Anthropologist _Forensic 'your' people? You built nothing. You just have pathetically frail sensibilities and no personal achievement, so you pretend your entitlement was stolen from you to justify your dismal existence. Oh you sad disillusioned man...

  • @Nexus-6
    @Nexus-6 5 років тому +1280

    WW1 started with cavalry charges in 1914, while WW2 ended with two atomic bombs being dropped on Japan in 1945. All in a span of 31 years, which is the same time span as 1988 - 2019. It boggles my mind..

    • @chrisg.7420
      @chrisg.7420 5 років тому +140

      @@lrjxe9895 ummm what? Hitler killed himself before the war in Japan ended.

    • @alexanderperkins1183
      @alexanderperkins1183 5 років тому +54

      That is crazy, but think about the technology of 1988 and now we have A.I and smartphones, times are crazy

    • @kaboost1528
      @kaboost1528 5 років тому +20

      After that there is the cold war, though it wasn't a war it was definitely scary to be alive then right after 2 world wars

    • @Nexus-6
      @Nexus-6 5 років тому +24

      @@kaboost1528 As an adolescent in the early 1980's, I would have recurring nightmares about WW3, and nuclear Armageddon.

    • @JuanRodriguez-rm6id
      @JuanRodriguez-rm6id 5 років тому +2

      holymolie damn

  • @jonathannuamah3296
    @jonathannuamah3296 4 роки тому +665

    *Me:* 2020 is the worst year ever.
    *UA-cam:* Can I interest you in some reality?

    • @pplridots
      @pplridots 4 роки тому +48

      2020 isnt even close to being the worst year

    • @backyardexplorations9412
      @backyardexplorations9412 4 роки тому +3

      This is a really good comment it should have more comments

    • @nibbax7772
      @nibbax7772 3 роки тому +8

      @@pplridots in human history? Fuck no
      But in our timeline? Then hell yeah

    • @pvt.potato1943
      @pvt.potato1943 3 роки тому

      The old guys where just as worse

    • @samisha5834
      @samisha5834 3 роки тому

      @@nibbax7772 There are ppl who lived in many wars which most were worse than staying at home.

  • @AngerMaker413
    @AngerMaker413 7 років тому +1925

    whenever the fuck the black death was: oh god, I hope I don't get this terrible disease.
    WW1:I hope I dont get bruttaly killed in this war.
    2016- 2017: OMG I'M OFFENDED

    • @DerWeisskunig
      @DerWeisskunig 7 років тому +41

      MineCraft Pro
      The Black Plague was between 1346-1353. Just to let you know.

    • @Sammakko7
      @Sammakko7 7 років тому +2

      Max Killian nope. It was still in 1705.

    • @DerWeisskunig
      @DerWeisskunig 7 років тому +5

      african american cookiemonster
      I meant when the mass epidemic broke out. The disease existed afterward but didn't spread at such high levels.

    • @boylogan1011
      @boylogan1011 7 років тому +19

      MineCraft Pro
      2016 - 2017: oh god I hope I don't get beaten to death with baseball bats and sharpened sticks by Trump protesters.

    • @littlebritofmark702
      @littlebritofmark702 7 років тому +16

      CaptainROFL thats what fucking antifa and hillary supporters do to trump supporters dick head

  • @WEHRWULF8814
    @WEHRWULF8814 4 роки тому +361

    Just remember, human suffering has no limit. Every generation should be prepared for the worst.

    • @boomerangfish3558
      @boomerangfish3558 4 роки тому +15

      Are you telling us that we should be ... prepared, for things like pandemics in 2020?

    • @deandradan8922
      @deandradan8922 4 роки тому +29

      @@boomerangfish3558 i totally understand what u mean, but this isn't even the worst, we will go through so much worse in our lifetimes. i feel like people need to understand that most deaths aren't even from Covid 19. my uncle had a heart attack, yet they classified the death as covid. people are too scared of the virus. i understand its good to be afraid (not rly) but people are too scared

    • @nielsgroothedde8038
      @nielsgroothedde8038 4 роки тому +5

      @@deandradan8922 lol has every uncle in this world had an hearth attack and died after? I see this comment everywhere. So much so that i aint buying it anymore

    • @deathb4bondage558
      @deathb4bondage558 4 роки тому +3

      @@nielsgroothedde8038 better to have my eyes open to wonder than shut to disbelief.
      just because you think its too common, doesnt mean it didnt happen. stop being a cynical little bitch and shut up. there are billions of people in the world.

    • @JordanLikesYouAlot
      @JordanLikesYouAlot 4 роки тому +2

      Disagree, unless you mean that every modern generation should prepare to be CONVINCED/TOLD that what they’re going through is the worst. I think in current times, people are predispositioned to think that their struggle is the end-all-be-all. Of course, I’m generalizing, but there does seem to be a lack of perspective in younger/ish people today. Imagine if you posted a cool tik tok and then went through a world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression! You’d make literally NO money on that tik tok. Think about all that.

  • @Viper-sn5cx
    @Viper-sn5cx 7 років тому +729

    As much as i hate to say it, I suddenly feel so much better about my life and all the "problems" i thought i had. Things could be soo much worse.

    • @wallhackergotdammit
      @wallhackergotdammit 5 років тому +19

      I felt the same after looking up ''The Massacre of Nanjing''.

    • @mariakelly5
      @mariakelly5 5 років тому +11

      @T Niz They don't have to shut up.

    • @mariakelly5
      @mariakelly5 5 років тому +2

      @@wallhackergotdammit I've read about that too (it was called The Rape of Nanking).

    • @16h46
      @16h46 5 років тому +5

      T Niz why don’t you shut the fuck up

    • @16h46
      @16h46 5 років тому +4

      T Niz gay prick

  • @TheUsername314159
    @TheUsername314159 7 років тому +409

    My great grandfather Albert was born in the southern US in 1898. He and his best friend were both drafted in 1917, and saw most violence in 1918. He drove over a German land mine in the Argonne forest, and it blew up his ambulance, throwing his friend out the window. His friend's body was not returned for months. Then, his brother was caught in a trench when a chlorine gas attack flooded it all, and he and everyone else coughed their lungs out and died.
    My great grandpa survived, and married my great grandma in 1921. She lived until I was 5 years old, dying at 101 years old. 1903-2004 is a hell of a lifespan

    • @latinace1981
      @latinace1981 7 років тому +25

      Scottie they must of had some great stories to tell

    • @ADMG214
      @ADMG214 7 років тому +3

      I am your Daddy my nigga I’m yo daddy

    • @freerollr3272
      @freerollr3272 7 років тому +5

      Bitch stfu u liar

    • @klaus3794
      @klaus3794 6 років тому +3

      Horrible and unbelievable - but true.

    • @thetf8142
      @thetf8142 6 років тому +5

      Gas attacks must of been hell, even if you had a gas mask on, your skin would rot away and it would blur your vision so you couldn’t see the enemy, as well as many loud sounds that would kill their eardrums, was your grandfather shellshocked or did he have PTSD? I’m guessing he did but you never know

  • @alexdonaldson7943
    @alexdonaldson7943 5 років тому +760

    Being a Russian man during the 20th century would be hell on earth, WW1, get thrown into a camp, WW2, get thrown into another camp. Brutal

    • @michaelream2146
      @michaelream2146 4 роки тому +5

      @The fastest milkman in the West
      Lmao, nice!

    • @drened8502
      @drened8502 4 роки тому +71

      Ww1, followed by Civil war, followed by the Spanish flu, followed by Stalin's purges, followed by WW2, followed by more purges. All this suffering yet Russia is still a shithole. Russian men are rolling in their graves

    • @Junokaii
      @Junokaii 4 роки тому +14

      Along with The Russian Revolution and subsequent interventions by countries in Western Europe (White Army/Britain/France/USA vs Red Army/Communists), atrocities done by Stalin, etc. Russia's been through a lot as a nation, even in the centuries prior such as being ruled by the Mongols. Russia has proven what it takes to be a nation and the striving of surviving as a nation.

    • @andyhello23
      @andyhello23 4 роки тому +3

      Remember it was the british who brought the idea, of the concentration camp to russians.

    • @benbutton4193
      @benbutton4193 4 роки тому +6

      Russia was a disaster before the revolution. People were starving and dying by the millions while the Czars sat in a fucking castle with food.
      They were liberated and prosperous because of it. If it wasn't for the Soviets, Nazi Germany might still exist. They played the most crucial role in victory.
      The Gulag was for class traitors. It consisted of farmers that refused to help feed the nation. These farmers were price gouging and when told they must sell at reasonable prices, they refused, hid crops for themselves and burned the rest. Then of course, the bourgeoise was sent to gulag or killed because they were part of the exploitation that led to mass starvation and famine.
      People often look at the USSR without understanding the full picture and circumstances that lead towards the "horrific" events that is taught in the West. People don't have revolutions because everything is peachy. A big reason Capitalism is so successful is due largely in part to welfare. Keep the poor fed and housed and you keep them content with their mediocre existance. Take away their food, and see how long it takes before they start killing the rich.
      You ever notice they don't teach you the words of Communist leaders in school? They don't teach the revolutionary theory or the ideology of the Communist country, they only show you pictures of terrible things that was caused by even worse things.
      Everyone shits on Castro as well, but fail to see what Batista was doing that lead to his overthrow. For someone who is supposedly satan reborn,it is interesting that the entire country gathered in the masses and cried when his death was announced.

  • @stacyjennings543
    @stacyjennings543 4 роки тому +541

    Makes me truly grateful to not have lived through those awful times, and he sounds like he's the golf tournament commentator.

  • @keksterbojester818
    @keksterbojester818 4 роки тому +197

    Next time you're feeling down, remember that you're a descendant of someone who was strong enough to survive such times. Survival of the fittest is not something to take lightly.

    • @keksterbojester818
      @keksterbojester818 4 роки тому +16

      @The not chosen one lol I'm guessing she said no?

    • @maxlumley2518
      @maxlumley2518 4 роки тому +2

      Surprisingly uplifting lol

    • @rainer6736
      @rainer6736 3 роки тому +7

      that makes me even more depressed. shows me that we are whimps

    • @jimboonie9885
      @jimboonie9885 3 роки тому

      @The not chosen one No u

    • @bearyqvoid6750
      @bearyqvoid6750 3 роки тому

      Alex just lived through a hole through this whole thing

  • @elmohead
    @elmohead 7 років тому +644

    I think the worst time and place to be alive in human history is about 70,000 years ago when the Toba catastrophe occurred. A super-eruption of a volcano blew up an entire island in Indonesia and caused a global winter for 6-7 years. The global human population was reduced to about 1,000 breeding pairs.

    • @graehame1
      @graehame1 7 років тому +93

      @elmo-- You're absolutely correct. Another person who knows history.

    • @MiIIiIIion
      @MiIIiIIion 7 років тому +37

      Depends on which definition of history you use. But yeah, that would have been a pretty shit time, even without massive war and disease.

    • @aBerlin1945
      @aBerlin1945 7 років тому +70

      that's prehistory.

    • @Marinuss
      @Marinuss 7 років тому +99

      We're all inbred

    • @aBerlin1945
      @aBerlin1945 7 років тому +6

      except... it's not history.

  • @MrJefferypittfan01
    @MrJefferypittfan01 6 років тому +238

    Rwanda in 1994 would have been a bad place to be.

    • @daveywalker2319
      @daveywalker2319 5 років тому +7

      That definitely should have been on the list

    • @robcompton6838
      @robcompton6838 5 років тому +14

      I do not believe in God but I also do not judge you for withdrawing from society. A man who lives at peace is a rare thing.

    • @Kamika_C_1980
      @Kamika_C_1980 5 років тому +8

      also former jugoslawia

    • @TheMadDiggy
      @TheMadDiggy 5 років тому +14

      Vietnam was a bad place to be during the war.

    • @MasterSoto
      @MasterSoto 5 років тому +29

      Cambodia under Pol Pot too.

  • @cheshirechill154
    @cheshirechill154 4 роки тому +358

    Being Native Americans during the “discovery” of the Americas, would be a TERRIBLE life

    • @EddieM1994
      @EddieM1994 4 роки тому +54

      Being pretty much any indigenous group during their "discovery" by Europeans would be horrific. And our countries continue to exploit "their" colonies. It's sickening.

    • @meadowcontreras2760
      @meadowcontreras2760 4 роки тому +18

      FUN FACT: Hitler learned how to treat jewish people so badly by Columbus and the other colonizers

    • @perfectlypurepinkpompompan3467
      @perfectlypurepinkpompompan3467 4 роки тому +6

      @iTzDaRFYoDa 12357062 lol like Europe!! Difference was that civilians were seldom killed in the disagreements between tribes: it was more civilized than most European wars, and considerably less deadly.

    • @babelincoln2092
      @babelincoln2092 4 роки тому +6

      @VI's Very Own inthe algonquin tribes tongue, the term "mohawk" as in the mohawk tribe, stood for "flesh-eater". There was massive torture, cannibalism, etc.
      All people just suck, dont blame white people for everything because its the current fad. Blame everyone for being terrible to each other.

    • @jhalenhanshaw5405
      @jhalenhanshaw5405 4 роки тому +1

      *comes to America*
      Columbus: What are you people doing in my swamp?

  • @mathieunorry
    @mathieunorry 5 років тому +240

    To say that we are living a cosseted existence in 2019 in comparison with any period in history is an understatement. Most of us are extraordinarily lucky today.

    • @nottheaveragejoe8718
      @nottheaveragejoe8718 5 років тому +2

      Some what true don't forget cancer AIDS flu STDs guns food poisoning I could go on and on but you should see where I'm going there 10xs more ways to die today..

    • @ftball57
      @ftball57 5 років тому +23

      @@nottheaveragejoe8718 Huh?? Did you even watch the video? Educate yourself before talking nonsense

    • @nottheaveragejoe8718
      @nottheaveragejoe8718 5 років тому +1

      @@ftball57 This is 5 dummy there's a 100xs more ways to die today

    • @Locallex
      @Locallex 5 років тому +20

      @@nottheaveragejoe8718 I think you should change your name to below average Joe. You're not using your head bud

    • @nottheaveragejoe8718
      @nottheaveragejoe8718 5 років тому +2

      @@Locallex I think you should tell someone else because I don't give a fuck what you think 👌👌

  • @brownkv081
    @brownkv081 7 років тому +1525

    ...Fuck. I'm totally an entitled piece of shit, sometimes...when my wifi signal is weak. I curse the bullshit time we live in.

    • @RHNGaming
      @RHNGaming 7 років тому +10

      brownkv081 same😂 ah, God I'm an awful human being😔

    • @AutoSia
      @AutoSia 7 років тому +13

      brownkv081 When my electronic freezes I do that.😂😂😂

    • @jacobyf8133
      @jacobyf8133 7 років тому +1

      Same here lmao!

    • @rainretribute9852
      @rainretribute9852 7 років тому +25

      brownkv081 the other day my tub of ice cream had no ice cream left in it. I almost died

    • @Be4zle
      @Be4zle 7 років тому +18

      That proves just how good we have it! Just think that the people back then would be exactly the same if they were born today.

  • @The_Great_Eye
    @The_Great_Eye 4 роки тому +25

    Incredible to think my great grandmother lived through the entirety of the 20th century. Modernization, WWI, Polio, rearing twenties, great depression, served in W.A.V.E. along with other members of the family during WWII, Cold War beginnings, Korea, Vietnam, Cuban missile crises, Reagan years, gulf and middle eastern conflicts, and 9/11. The world will never see their like again.

  • @Chuked
    @Chuked 4 роки тому +55

    This is honestly one of the best videos on UA-cam because it makes me feel grateful for the era I’m living in

    • @ratemate458
      @ratemate458 3 роки тому +3

      We're grateful now... But let's hope a WW3 isn't unfolding in our lifetimes. Nukes with better mass murder technology than ever, on top of global warming and climate change and the fact that our ocean is literally plastic and we're fucking up the environment to no return.... That's going to be... bad... to say the least.

  • @abelruiz1996
    @abelruiz1996 7 років тому +1457

    during when the twilight saga was being released

    • @LawrenceLatrellJacksonMcknight
      @LawrenceLatrellJacksonMcknight 7 років тому +8

      Abel Ruiz lmao

    • @shaunjewell6877
      @shaunjewell6877 7 років тому +49

      Abel Ruiz that era was a true tragedy

    • @augustopinochet7587
      @augustopinochet7587 7 років тому +40

      The Great Leap Forward was still a better love story than twilight

    • @donovanlouis3668
      @donovanlouis3668 7 років тому +36

      I am a survivor of this dark era and I would greatly appreciate if you could not upset my ptsd disorder with the horrifying memories of this global catastrophe.

    • @zakbond1216
      @zakbond1216 7 років тому

      +Donovan Louis ha ha stay off of UA-cam.

  • @trentwilliams8676
    @trentwilliams8676 5 років тому +291

    I WaS BoRn In ThE WrOnG GeNeRaTiOn

  • @711jastin
    @711jastin 6 років тому +82

    My grandpa lived the Great Leap Forward, his family was so starved he had to go oversea to the land i'm living now to work, when he was only 13. Fortunately, his hard work fed the family until things were better.

    • @waynesutton5150
      @waynesutton5150 5 років тому +1

      I'll bet you have some interesting stories. I would like to hear some.

  • @blunew467
    @blunew467 4 роки тому +269

    Little kids be like: Wheres 2020 its the worst because sports and movies got delayed.

    • @drummingtildeath
      @drummingtildeath 4 роки тому +5

      If only. Unfortunately many adults agree...

    • @drummingtildeath
      @drummingtildeath 4 роки тому +3

      @Hannah Dyson I think we're agreeing that's it's terrible but the people acting like lockdowns are the end of the world are being a bit melodramatic.

    • @kaetym8331
      @kaetym8331 4 роки тому

      But I say: I hate 2020 because I had COVID and I could not go to my championship game

    • @drummingtildeath
      @drummingtildeath 4 роки тому +5

      @@whydoyoucare6012 0.2% mortality rate would mean around 700,000 americans dead. If you don't care about 700,000 people dying in one country it probably means you are not exactly a good person.

    • @gregytsaras5017
      @gregytsaras5017 4 роки тому

      This is for adults too dude

  • @darktigre8214
    @darktigre8214 7 років тому +258

    Puts it all in perspective. My problems are nothing in comparison.

    • @tomchch
      @tomchch 6 років тому +9

      Speak for yourself, i am currently out of toiletpaper and its 1 am so all the stores are closed.

    • @WereAlreadyHere
      @WereAlreadyHere 6 років тому +5

      thats what you keep old socks with the hole in the big toe for

    • @andrewrickert5961
      @andrewrickert5961 5 років тому

      tomchch you can use the cardboard roll itself. Just tear it up good so it doesn't clog your plumbing

    • @TheGanjologist
      @TheGanjologist 4 роки тому +1

      @@tomchch this joke was weirdly ahead of its time

  • @merchantman3955
    @merchantman3955 6 років тому +532

    You left out living with my ex wife.

    • @scribblypibbles4129
      @scribblypibbles4129 5 років тому +27

      Merchantman May god have mercy on your mortal soul

    • @steevedaw566
      @steevedaw566 5 років тому +2

      I heard a cave diver use the phrase, "the highest high to the lowest low". I instantly made the connection to marriage!

    • @grantdu9626
      @grantdu9626 5 років тому +3

      Lol

    • @RedBloodedAmerican0187
      @RedBloodedAmerican0187 5 років тому +1

      Lol

    • @SalemCBR1
      @SalemCBR1 5 років тому +5

      Dont be ridiculous. Nobody could survive that long term.

  • @nittanyburg20
    @nittanyburg20 7 років тому +458

    You should do the five deadliest civil wars in history

    • @FailedPoet444
      @FailedPoet444 7 років тому +187

      It'd be an all-Chinese episode.

    • @MJayzStudio
      @MJayzStudio 7 років тому +3

      Shutendoji true lol

    • @youwilldie8835
      @youwilldie8835 7 років тому +13

      Hot Cosby most likely Chinese civil war the taiping rebellion, that early Chinese civil war, Russian civil war and idk

    • @jayluis189
      @jayluis189 7 років тому +1

      Syria ?

    • @paxsinica5202
      @paxsinica5202 7 років тому +20

      Jay Luis not even close, as horrible as it is

  • @justnoah2073
    @justnoah2073 4 роки тому +223

    I hear the year 536 wasn't fun either.

    • @BonyFingers1969
      @BonyFingers1969 4 роки тому +13

      erushbass
      8 months ago (edited)
      You think that's bad, I got in my car the other day and somebody had pushed my passenger side wing mirror in.
      I had to get out, walk around the entire car & push it back out.
      536 Likes
      ..........................
      This is the comment 2 comments above yours
      It's odd that it has the same 536 number that you mention but used in a different way,,, weird or what

    • @justnoah2073
      @justnoah2073 4 роки тому +18

      Dude I had to wait for my computer to load for 1 minute. So do you still think your life is bad?

    • @Metal9040
      @Metal9040 4 роки тому +9

      Noah Shackelford I had to get out of bed today.. You think you have a bad life?

    • @justnoah2073
      @justnoah2073 4 роки тому +2

      I had to wash the DVD for ICE AGE today. I have an awful life.

    • @justnoah2073
      @justnoah2073 4 роки тому +2

      I got a paper cut. My life's been awful.

  • @ace1776
    @ace1776 7 років тому +1618

    You forgot the American Cola Wars. We lost good men to Pepsi and Coke.

    • @isaiah1897
      @isaiah1897 7 років тому +28

      MyHotdogWeiner ive seen things....

    • @TheThreatenedSwan
      @TheThreatenedSwan 7 років тому +27

      MyHotdogWeiner Yeah, to diabetes

    • @OctogonOxygen024816
      @OctogonOxygen024816 7 років тому

      I don't get it, what's going on here?

    • @osearthesp
      @osearthesp 7 років тому +10

      And we're still losing oval-teens every day to that fattening rounded out black poison , yay but it's bubbly yay!! ;].

    • @SuperMelvinos
      @SuperMelvinos 7 років тому +4

      Chris Rivas coke cola vs pepsi

  • @bricestaples1903
    @bricestaples1903 6 років тому +1427

    2018, when ppl get offended when you misgender their dog

    • @Shubham.Katyal
      @Shubham.Katyal 5 років тому +18

      🤣

    • @charlesfollette2655
      @charlesfollette2655 5 років тому +79

      Waiting for the day when these emotional lightweights grow up.

    • @mlc4495
      @mlc4495 5 років тому +15

      Odd. The only people getting triggered by transgenderism are you Chan fucks. The rest of us don't particularly give a fuck. Lol.

    • @jack-kc5tc
      @jack-kc5tc 5 років тому +45

      mlc449 yeah that's why i get screeched at when i misgender a person and am expected to just know what they want.

    • @jeffthevomitguy1178
      @jeffthevomitguy1178 5 років тому +1

      @@jack-kc5tc just say they

  • @alecw457
    @alecw457 7 років тому +545

    Imagine yourself fighting for your country through out WW1, then when you get home, you manage to survive the Spanish flu, then push through the great depression, and after all this you die during the 2nd World War because you were Jewish. Holy shit.

    • @xavierlarson5804
      @xavierlarson5804 7 років тому +45

      Hello There eh, I went through. Stubbing my toe.

    • @1010-f1k
      @1010-f1k 7 років тому +38

      Hello There except you died from the Spanish flu cuz nobody survived that shit

    • @hazardtg3008
      @hazardtg3008 7 років тому

      Ffs

    • @Ekofrennzy
      @Ekofrennzy 7 років тому +2

      PepetheFrogHere what if your English would you still die of Spanish Flu?

    • @mr.meeseeks5127
      @mr.meeseeks5127 7 років тому +10

      SorzMusic no you have to speak Spanish or at least understand it pretty well for it to affect you.

  • @auntiedough2488
    @auntiedough2488 4 роки тому +40

    My grandfather was born in Germany in 1894. He fought in WWI at the Eastern Front. He then lived through Nazi Rule in Berlin, with his wife and 3 children. His eldest daughter was killed, aged 16, during an air raid in 1944 as the family made their way to an air raid shelter. She was hit by shrapnel and bled to death in the shelter. My dad was 11. My Opa was devoutly Lutheran and he refused to Heil Hitler. He fought back in his own, tiny way.

    • @otavianiluciano7397
      @otavianiluciano7397 4 роки тому +6

      May God bless his soul.

    • @Swaggmire215
      @Swaggmire215 4 роки тому +1

      Fawk so sorry for that mam.people are horrible beings smfh

    • @Swaggmire215
      @Swaggmire215 4 роки тому

      @Ariel Panich oh they were the lucky ones believe it or not

    • @ratemate458
      @ratemate458 3 роки тому +1

      Why does this sound like the middle east nowadays?? Except replace the Nazi stuff with Terrorist

  • @rcb0683
    @rcb0683 7 років тому +91

    No 1 actually gave me pause for thought. I knew about all of those events individually but never put them all together. Imagine surviving the entirety of WW1, Spanish flu pandemic, the Great Depression, and WW2 only to shipped off to end your days in a Gulag. What a perfectly abject existence.

    • @ivantheterrible1120
      @ivantheterrible1120 5 років тому +7

      My great grandfather George was in ww1 and was the only one who survived the war. All his friends were killed,

    • @_d98224
      @_d98224 5 років тому

      What is a Gulag ?

    • @silkyjay869
      @silkyjay869 5 років тому +2

      Something hillary would put you in.

    • @illuminateplay3187
      @illuminateplay3187 5 років тому +4

      @@_d98224 Concentration camps created by Lenin and Stalin in the USSR, they were just as bad or even worse than the Nazi Auschwitz Camps

  • @jimmyteerex2177
    @jimmyteerex2177 6 років тому +64

    My great grandfather survived the whole of World war 1 fighting in the trenches for the British Army (1914-1918), Spanish Flu, The Great Depression and World war 2. He died an old man in the 1970's.

    • @kangeroobru
      @kangeroobru 5 років тому +3

      So did mine. First battle was at Gallipoli.

    • @seanharrison203
      @seanharrison203 5 років тому +7

      My nan (my dads mum) worked in a factory making bullets and guns in WW2 and the day she weren't working the place got bombed pretty lucky there like.. just a shame all those other people died :'( she lived until she was 83 she died in 2003

    • @thecalepearcesongbook191
      @thecalepearcesongbook191 5 років тому +1

      WOW love to have met him???

    • @PaneraiFerrari
      @PaneraiFerrari 4 роки тому +1

      That's because he was a Tee Rex

    • @LeBronyaJames
      @LeBronyaJames 4 роки тому +1

      Talk about sheer fortune

  • @Dartagnan24
    @Dartagnan24 7 років тому +195

    I really don't understand why the Chinese put a mass murderer on their currency.

  • @grahameberry1897
    @grahameberry1897 4 роки тому +74

    My grandfather was one of those unfortunates who although badly wounded at Pozieres in 1916, came home, raised three boys in the 30's and put himself thru uni to become a lawyer. He then had the pleasure of watching his eldest go off to war and eventually to Hiroshima 5 weeks after the bomb, where as a dentist he was helping the local survivors. Grandad died in 1959, his wound still weeping, but never heard him complain.
    Now the current generation complain about all sorts of fictitious hardships and problems, probably because they have never experienced any kind of reality like this. Time to wake up before it happens again.

    • @deathb4bondage558
      @deathb4bondage558 4 роки тому +1

      oh its happening again bud. a little too late

    • @memine5667
      @memine5667 2 роки тому

      @@deathb4bondage558 the hardships that previous generations endured are not happening now. Only weak spirited people would compare theses things.

  • @agischlar3006
    @agischlar3006 7 років тому +990

    the worst time to be alive was anytime before toilet paper

  • @Cutiekiwi9
    @Cutiekiwi9 6 років тому +398

    And I complain when Burger King gets my order wrong..

    • @Josh-qx8sq
      @Josh-qx8sq 5 років тому +23

      Nothing wrong with that

    • @candyjones3652
      @candyjones3652 5 років тому +6

      Lmfao

    • @mxmtbees
      @mxmtbees 5 років тому +13

      Thats what i tell our kids . They have no idea how good they have life

    • @robcompton6838
      @robcompton6838 5 років тому +5

      I would compare working fast food to somewhere between the great leap forward and the native american genocide, so when they get my order wrong I let it go.

    • @jamesmcvey5871
      @jamesmcvey5871 5 років тому +6

      Take your mongol hordes and slaughter everyone in it.

  • @Giantist
    @Giantist 7 років тому +62

    This is one of the most eye opening, thought provoking videos I've ever seen. 👏

    • @OwnedEpicStyle
      @OwnedEpicStyle 7 років тому +19

      Tom Leng you haven't seen many videos

    • @TheGreatBeard
      @TheGreatBeard 7 років тому +7

      What is even more eye opening is to listen to what communism has brought to China during that time...yet many young people today wish to abolish capitalism in favor of communism.

    • @chrisreynolds6143
      @chrisreynolds6143 7 років тому

      Tom we must know a different freedom

    • @FunnyVideoMaker77
      @FunnyVideoMaker77 7 років тому +6

      Wow look at you using big words

    • @neincre
      @neincre 7 років тому +2

      Eye opening?
      This is eye shutting, mental blockade by smuggling a message that favours the centers of wealth and power.
      The patron of life is balance, to implement balance we need a decrease in skull-less zombies stamping on the planet, hence less lying media and more serious political discussion to shed sectarian violence in favour of the global unity of the working class, so far the only agent of progress by means of class struggle. The 5 of the video will carry on forever unless black and white unite and fight against crooking and twisting of the truth, including, 5 best, 5 worst, bullshit videos.

  • @markyncole
    @markyncole 4 роки тому +105

    Imagine how much more over populated this world would be without pandemics and war.

    • @johnkreiner7842
      @johnkreiner7842 4 роки тому +21

      Ok thanos...

    • @fredymendez3864
      @fredymendez3864 4 роки тому +1

      John Kreiner lol 😂

    • @travisramirez7143
      @travisramirez7143 4 роки тому

      Nature will keep a lid on it by killing alot

    • @alanjax7685
      @alanjax7685 4 роки тому

      imagine? it is overpopulated mother nature is doing her thing

    • @gorkyd7912
      @gorkyd7912 4 роки тому +7

      Backwards thinking. It is only overpopulated BECAUSE of pandemics and war. Without pandemics and war there's plenty of resources for billions more.

  • @jasondessing3508
    @jasondessing3508 5 років тому +371

    Re: War. .. I think it was Albert Einstein who said: "WW3 will be fought with formidable weapons. .. As a result, WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones."

    • @RequiumFrost
      @RequiumFrost 5 років тому +26

      Jesus.. now thats a scary comment.

    • @RP-iq9we
      @RP-iq9we 5 років тому +35

      Im ready I got my big thick stick here between my legs yoooo

    • @thomasmorris4449
      @thomasmorris4449 4 роки тому +39

      I remember seeing that quote a billion times trying beat COD 4 on veteran back in the day

    • @IYHIGJ
      @IYHIGJ 4 роки тому +5

      @@RP-iq9we* pause*

    • @ulfricstormcloak9650
      @ulfricstormcloak9650 4 роки тому +5

      Which means eventually we would evolve to using swords again, it'd be an unending cycle

  • @pierrelaliberte3964
    @pierrelaliberte3964 5 років тому +135

    After watching the 5 worse times to be alive, I now have a whole lot more appreciation for the peace posessions and the roof over my head.

    • @zandarzandarevic5466
      @zandarzandarevic5466 5 років тому +4

      And you didnt know all this before?
      I guess you done drugs and didnt go to school

    • @lemonxx4916
      @lemonxx4916 5 років тому +4

      Dont forget water and electricity

    • @thomasmorris4449
      @thomasmorris4449 4 роки тому +2

      Everytime I start feeling grateful for all that, my roommate waltzes into the living room wearing his fursuit

    • @blankblank5409
      @blankblank5409 4 роки тому

      Žandar Žandarević Marijuana should be legalized beereeeeeeeeee

    • @mrdgenerate
      @mrdgenerate 4 роки тому

      Today could be one of the worst times to be alive

  • @TrapToise
    @TrapToise 7 років тому +103

    If this video does not convince people we are as human beings a violent and absolutely dangerous race of living beings in the universe then nothing will.

    • @scoobycarr5558
      @scoobycarr5558 6 років тому

      Pursued Mist521 And YOU thought that the world with us humans before the Flood in Noah's time was bad. Let me set you straight mister. You hit the nail right on the head! That usage of words and phrases by you absolutely takes the cake.

    • @nathanbruce1992
      @nathanbruce1992 6 років тому +10

      Pursued Mist521: we are social creatures. Violence is an anti social behavior. Peace will always prevail in the end.

    • @BeverlySchnett
      @BeverlySchnett 6 років тому +2

      most of the time humans are rather peaceful when they allowed to be live in peace and got the challenges and the sex they needed

    • @abhijaypandey9534
      @abhijaypandey9534 5 років тому

      @@nathanbruce1992 but that end would be end of humanity
      Rest of the earth would remain peaceful

    • @dairius3547
      @dairius3547 5 років тому

      *most white people*

  • @harrellkerkhoff8054
    @harrellkerkhoff8054 4 роки тому +14

    Travel to Europe some time and visit all the memorials, in just about any size town, that are dedicated to some war or some plague of the past. It's truly eye-opening and makes you realize how dangerous life was in the past. We have it easy today compared to then.

  • @CrappyCrowbar
    @CrappyCrowbar 7 років тому +9

    I love this channel. The content is always very well presented and way more in depth than most other "Top 10" channels.
    Unknown5 definitely deserves the popularity and attention he's been getting.

  • @allanbonayon5797
    @allanbonayon5797 7 років тому +284

    No.1
    Being born in North Korea

    • @brothertrooper6956
      @brothertrooper6956 5 років тому +1

      Allan Bonayon you forgot all the time for the time

    • @ApparitionGroupUSA
      @ApparitionGroupUSA 5 років тому +2

      sup dude the title says ‘places’ stupid

    • @ninocalixtro1341
      @ninocalixtro1341 5 років тому

      Not at all

    • @iamusingtheinternet3324
      @iamusingtheinternet3324 5 років тому +3

      @@JesusChrist-fz4qw do you need a specific time to hate being alive in NK?

    • @GenetixMycology
      @GenetixMycology 5 років тому

      @@iamusingtheinternet3324 yeah during the breakdown of the Soviet Union there was famine so pretty bad time they relied on Soviet imports of food other than that it's not that bad of a place in relation to living in most of the world unless you are a dissident

  • @pricey0986ify
    @pricey0986ify 5 років тому +24

    My Grandpa was born in 1917, fought in WW2 and lived to 96. Greatest man I ever knew

    • @btryx9378
      @btryx9378 5 років тому +3

      respect for your granddad.

    • @henrynguyen9528
      @henrynguyen9528 5 років тому

      pricey0986ify did he kill anybody during the war?

    • @jorgeantonioarreaga4674
      @jorgeantonioarreaga4674 4 роки тому +1

      Henry Nguyen I’d imagine so.

    • @James-vy5jg
      @James-vy5jg 4 роки тому

      The crazy thing is no one asked

    • @jorgeantonioarreaga4674
      @jorgeantonioarreaga4674 4 роки тому +3

      Jamie Dawson Imagine believing your irrelevant approval is so important that you believe they shouldn’t comment unless someone asked them too? 🤔

  • @quintdasharkhunter5263
    @quintdasharkhunter5263 4 роки тому +130

    This video makes corona virus seem like a holiday...geeesh...#perspective

    • @Swaggmire215
      @Swaggmire215 4 роки тому +2

      Coronavirus is disney world for free compared to back then

    • @uvwuvw-ol3fg
      @uvwuvw-ol3fg 3 роки тому

      Wasn't coronavirus used as an obedience training tool (Goodness Paradox: obedience to abstract laws and authorities due to self-domestication syndrome) since it has been said by psychological society that people should be targeted with hard hitting emotional messages? Seems like inherent optimism bias and terror management theory will always help regardless of ideologies such as antinatalism based on consent.

    • @mapleflag6518
      @mapleflag6518 3 роки тому +1

      @@uvwuvw-ol3fg No

  • @PrinceTae
    @PrinceTae 7 років тому +904

    Hannah Baker wouldn't survive 1 second of that

    • @traxxx1522
      @traxxx1522 7 років тому +4

      Prince Tae lollllllll

    • @traxxx1522
      @traxxx1522 7 років тому +57

      Prince Tae nope but she decides to kill herself because she doesn't know how to hit the power button

    • @markw1052
      @markw1052 7 років тому +13

      Holy shit you're in every comment section on UA-cam

    • @addictiveleaf2582
      @addictiveleaf2582 7 років тому +15

      Prince Tae lol xd it's funny cause she committed suicide

    • @joanderson9082
      @joanderson9082 7 років тому +2

      The joker no shit

  • @ironbaguette5768
    @ironbaguette5768 5 років тому +613

    “The lumps were the size of apples”
    Normal me: ok
    Me (currently eating an apple): YOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • @Bonswally
    @Bonswally 5 років тому +266

    I grew up with dial up internet.
    Please.

  • @emuriddle9364
    @emuriddle9364 5 років тому +34

    The moral of this story: Never give absolute power to a Narcissist.
    They'll do anything to create their own delusion of a "Perfect World."
    Complete with excuses and self-justification.
    Notice how Mao though of himself as a god? They tend to do that a lot.

  • @98AnimeDude
    @98AnimeDude 7 років тому +464

    What about the 2016 meme war?

    • @zer0_ner034
      @zer0_ner034 7 років тому +72

      Sloba Stop...please. I Got PTSD from that war.

    • @castrelspirit
      @castrelspirit 7 років тому +38

      *Random Dude With a cane* I thank you for your service

    • @gerrywarner
      @gerrywarner 7 років тому +3

      Random Dude With a cane which side were you on?

    • @bakermayfield6hunnitdan6er24
      @bakermayfield6hunnitdan6er24 7 років тому +18

      Gerry W obviously the side that won. All losers were publicly executed. A true vet would know that.

    • @NYBD
      @NYBD 7 років тому +5

      Sloba that war gave me cancer

  • @khalidcarter25
    @khalidcarter25 6 років тому +14

    This guy should do scary stories. He has the perfect storytelling voice

  • @nxn6662
    @nxn6662 7 років тому +30

    This is the happiest and best video on the entire UA-cam. If I ever feel bad, I just watch this.

  • @ellardkurvin1459
    @ellardkurvin1459 4 роки тому +92

    I can't wait til the Animus is a real thing so I can experience those historical time periods without actually having to live in it.

    • @Christmas-dp2mt
      @Christmas-dp2mt 4 роки тому +4

      OK than please send us some nice selfies

    • @Christmas-dp2mt
      @Christmas-dp2mt 4 роки тому +1

      @Dust storm C0Ming Much better! It´s lesbian xD xD

    • @themilkman7520
      @themilkman7520 4 роки тому +7

      @Dust storm C0Ming/videos You need to play Assassin's Creed then.

    • @Christmas-dp2mt
      @Christmas-dp2mt 4 роки тому

      @@themilkman7520 AssAssin's also contains the word "Ass" even twice so he still may think that 🤣🤣🤣

    • @thestonedhokage9878
      @thestonedhokage9878 4 роки тому

      They not letting us know shit

  • @TheVapeCritic
    @TheVapeCritic 7 років тому +85

    Excellent video

    • @AlexHand
      @AlexHand 7 років тому

      Vape Critic holding it down on the educational video comments section! I didn't expect to see you here, sir.

  • @theangryaustralian7624
    @theangryaustralian7624 5 років тому +25

    This video cured my depression

  • @Enigma71559
    @Enigma71559 5 років тому +23

    Wow! I just stumbled across this. Just the cheery pick-me-up I needed to start my day.

  • @Dansk55
    @Dansk55 4 роки тому +219

    Human: The most dangerous animal in the world

    • @brandonalvarez8242
      @brandonalvarez8242 4 роки тому +3

      hairlesheep Honestly us Humans

    • @phyllisdevries5734
      @phyllisdevries5734 4 роки тому

      @idoj654123 it's better than what we have going on now!

    • @Jamedia66
      @Jamedia66 4 роки тому +3

      hairlesheep Go drink a soy shake. F’ing idiot hippy...

    • @zzbige1
      @zzbige1 4 роки тому

      next to the mosquito

    • @sueyyness3642
      @sueyyness3642 4 роки тому

      @idoj654123 been to the Philippines lately? Fascism is not extinct.

  • @Witch-King4666
    @Witch-King4666 7 років тому +163

    Nanking during the second Japanese sino war.... That would suck...

    • @ayzengage1849
      @ayzengage1849 7 років тому +2

      SCARABtv ohhh I feel sorry for the people who were buried alive

    • @madkills10
      @madkills10 7 років тому +21

      we definitely hear about the jews enough

    • @helghastsoldier2503
      @helghastsoldier2503 7 років тому +2

      And female

    • @Witch-King4666
      @Witch-King4666 7 років тому +2

      helghast soldier especially being a female

    • @Witch-King4666
      @Witch-King4666 7 років тому +8

      USNA2008 yeah. That was fucked! Creepy ass human experiments! I am a history major going for post grad degrees. I love it they do not hold back like high school history teachers. I think these are all things that people should know about to help make a better future.

  • @jeremyheartriter4576
    @jeremyheartriter4576 5 років тому +99

    Who else knew it instinctively that they'd mention Europe during the Black Death even before watching the video?

    • @petee716
      @petee716 5 років тому +16

      Because it was really bad Jeremy.

    • @thenoblemarksman1370
      @thenoblemarksman1370 5 років тому

      hell ya

    • @opd832
      @opd832 5 років тому +6

      Well considering humanity almost went extinct because of it.

    • @MrDikketet
      @MrDikketet 4 роки тому

      Thought it would be N1 without question

    • @nicholasdunn7258
      @nicholasdunn7258 4 роки тому +2

      Only us intellectuals know 2+2=4

  • @calmo6949
    @calmo6949 7 років тому +557

    1. worst time to be alive: The Time when the Emoji Movie came out

  • @erwindelossantos1277
    @erwindelossantos1277 4 роки тому +33

    watching this gives me a better perspective on life, this is real hell on earth.

    • @bxkjayson5859
      @bxkjayson5859 4 роки тому +3

      Erwin Delos Santos The lake of fire is not even close to what people experience on earth. Jesus loves you brother.

  • @theyearoftherat
    @theyearoftherat 6 років тому +92

    As far as worst time regarding warfare, my vote is the eastern front of WWII.

    • @dylansherlock5408
      @dylansherlock5408 5 років тому +6

      yearoftherat I agree with that completely. German soldiers were sometimes punished by going to the eastern front which was basically a death sentence

    • @semperfine4442
      @semperfine4442 5 років тому +3

      BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR, SPRING, 1942

    • @bradleyscott6183
      @bradleyscott6183 5 років тому +3

      yearoftherat trench warefare...world war 1...

    • @ayoutubecommenter1827
      @ayoutubecommenter1827 5 років тому +5

      I just showed my grandfather who was a German soldier on the eastern front this comment...and he agreed, he says hes spent every day of his life since just remembering the horrors of his friends being butchered at stalingrad, he spent years in a gulag after being captured, when he came back to Germany years later, he found out that his wife and daughters had all been raped and savagely beaten/tortured by Soviet soldiers, sometimes 70 communist in a day would rape the girls...and they all ended up pregnant with monsters...I unfortunately am the result of one of those rapes...(bear in mind this happened to millions of German girls when the communist entered Germany....it truly was the worst fate, many civilians including innocent children had their eyes gouged out, breast cut off, skinned alive or burned to death after the rapes by the soviets...and the to make matters worse, the Soviets stole many of the more attractive German girls to send back to the Soviet union as sex slaves for communist party officials. And sometimes as servants/replacement wifes for soldiers who lost wifes during the war.. many of the german men who were able bodied were shipped to gulags never to be seen again, the last German soldier/POW left the gulag/prison system in 2014 at the age of 84, he was captured in Berlin 1945 at the age of 14...the poor boy spent his whole life in the Siberian gulags breaking rocks...as for the German girls stolen as war brides/sex slaves none of them ever returned home to my knowledge, but many still live in russia and likely have just accepted that fate, that part of the history was buried mostly due to how depraved it is...I'm sure they were not treated well by the Soviet soldiers since many of them were former SS/wehrmacht wifes and girlfriends....this was the unfortunate fate of my grandfathers wife...all we know is she was sent away to russia in 1945...he has never heard from her again....that war was truly horrible for the German people. It still greatly affects us, and NO we did not start the war, Poland forced it (at the request of the british), look up the danzig corridor and bromburg massacre. And watch "adolf Hitler the greatest story never told" it covers that stuff on archive.org (its banned on UA-cam now)

    • @morganwillis4703
      @morganwillis4703 5 років тому +5

      Anything that happened to the German military was deserved, stop trying to show the Germans as victims! They invaded the Soviet Union and the atrocities and death they caused there is completely unforgivable!
      And what happened to the civilians when the Soviets finally invaded German territory is exactly the same as what they were doing to soviet civilians!
      They were not victims they were an evil invading force! And luckily for the world the Soviets defeated them

  • @milky1234123
    @milky1234123 7 років тому +64

    world war 2 would have been my choice since it was the best part in aviation history

    • @NigwardTheSquid
      @NigwardTheSquid 7 років тому

      milky1234123 wwii was included

    • @zandertirabasso8601
      @zandertirabasso8601 7 років тому +5

      milky1234123 I like WW1 aviation because it was the first war with aviation

    • @milky1234123
      @milky1234123 7 років тому

      Either of them would have good to join just personally wwii for me since it had the most interesting conflicts and battles with german troops are things of legends

    • @AyedYoutube
      @AyedYoutube 7 років тому

      Ww1 pilot
      Us marine on duty in the pacific
      ^
      Both are the most unluckiest serving men in the world

    • @aduarte8057
      @aduarte8057 7 років тому +2

      Der Flieger The Pacific Campaign was hell on earth..... it was hot, bloody and just generally a terrible place to serve. Those men had a will and strengthen that is unmatched.

  • @dennis7131
    @dennis7131 5 років тому +44

    My great grandma was born in the ending years of ww1, she also survived ww2.
    So when her life could begin again, she got a in a horrible carcrash. Killing the other passengers in the car, her brother and father (mom died in ww2).
    She died a few summers ago, but she was happy.
    Quote translated from Dutch: “If I died this night, I would stick my fist in the air out of happiness, If I could.”

    • @Chuked
      @Chuked 5 років тому +2

      What a good life mate , imagine suffering like that and still being grateful for life and everything else, only certain people can withstand it. I hope she's in a better place now, Cheers

    • @johnrogers9481
      @johnrogers9481 4 роки тому

      Dennis. Your great gram was strong eh. I really like that thinking. Of going out in happiness and strength, no matter what happened in one’s life.! It is said that the only thing we take with us when we leave is, wisdom gained.

  • @moester75
    @moester75 3 роки тому +5

    I agree with your top five and I never really thought about how rough it had to be to live through 1900 - 1950.

  • @nightmaregd8192
    @nightmaregd8192 7 років тому +95

    I personally think stalin's 5 year plan should have been somewhere on the list

    • @forensicdar
      @forensicdar 7 років тому +3

      NightmareGD But which one? Five year plans were being put in place all the time in many places.

    • @nightmaregd8192
      @nightmaregd8192 7 років тому +2

      I only learned about the first five year plan in my history class, I didn't even know there were more. Although I'm pretty sure they were all terrible to live in.

    • @forensicdar
      @forensicdar 7 років тому +3

      NightmareGD Oh yes, they were. Five year plans were constantly being implemented in factories as well as "national five year plans" for economic "growth". Reality? The workers pretended to work while employers pretended to pay them. It was very common to walk into a grocer's (and always wait in three lines; one to choose your goods, two to pick up a ticket for said goods and three to pay for the goods.) Anyway, you'd walk into a store and see 10,000 toothbrushes and one loaf of bread. Growth was a fairy tale.
      I try not to cite wiki, but it's fairly accurate for this topic.
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_for_the_national_economy_of_the_Soviet_Union

    • @musicalneptunian
      @musicalneptunian 7 років тому +2

      Agree. I had that no 1 on my list.

    • @dannyh8288
      @dannyh8288 6 років тому +1

      He cant, he'd have to remove the US Indian wars to do so. As a liberal he could not do that.

  • @tuazonwarrior
    @tuazonwarrior 7 років тому +40

    This is depressing. Why did I watch this.

    • @johnvonshepard9373
      @johnvonshepard9373 7 років тому

      You and me. We want to suffer.

    • @BuddyLee23
      @BuddyLee23 7 років тому +2

      Perhaps to temporarily feel the relative luxury that modern escapes like this video tend to drown out?

    • @cliftondean4333
      @cliftondean4333 6 років тому +2

      More depressing than the video is that so many of the comments/responses here reveal such deep ignorance.

    • @gregoriopalofuego9808
      @gregoriopalofuego9808 6 років тому +2

      As gruesome as it was to watch, it gives us contrast, a lesson in history, and an appreciation how much better our lives are.
      Yes, we have our struggles, conflicts and diseases, but we are trending in a direction that maybe in 100-300 years we will have evolved into a species that such extreme hate is replaced with empathy, compassion, mutual understanding, and love.
      A utopian world- probably not, as there will always be new challenges, and unexpected events.
      We must also ask this question:
      What is the purpose of the Earth, and what is humanity's purpose?
      I have a pretty good idea of what that is, but it's best we each discover that on our own, as it makes it far more interesting.

  • @budgetlifter
    @budgetlifter 7 років тому +837

    However, Now, we live in a time with 60 Genders.

  • @FFF_Trucking
    @FFF_Trucking 4 роки тому +37

    I am grateful to see that I live in the best times since the world began

    • @talastra
      @talastra 4 роки тому

      @AAA TTT Eleventh century Europe was pretty cool (for European eras)

    • @elomdw5567
      @elomdw5567 4 роки тому

      For now

    • @5pecialFX
      @5pecialFX 3 роки тому

      But you will miss out on better times 1000 years from now

  • @frankma7046
    @frankma7046 7 років тому +38

    My grandma lived during the Great Leap Forward

    • @bmadden85
      @bmadden85 7 років тому +15

      Every living creature has a relative who was alive during any given point in history.

    • @sapientum8
      @sapientum8 7 років тому +7

      I imagine she never had problems with excessive weight.

    • @ThreeEyedWarlord2207
      @ThreeEyedWarlord2207 6 років тому

      Brandon The Epic My dad was born in the Great Leap Forward

  • @MasterSoto
    @MasterSoto 5 років тому +17

    I would have also mentioned the Russian Civil War and subsequent Povolzhye Famine, Red Terror (also including all NKVD execution/national actions and Stalinist purges), gulags and the Holodomor into number one alongside WWI, the Spanish Flu and WWII. It just compounds the amount of human suffering from 1914-1953 (let's be serious, shit didn't get better after WWII until Stalin died) into the stratosphere.

  • @wesnorthcutt639
    @wesnorthcutt639 7 років тому +78

    We're safer now than ever, every single kid in America is a video game soldier..

  • @kevin7rxxx346
    @kevin7rxxx346 4 роки тому +49

    200 million...that’s tragic on such a grand mind boggling scale !!!

    • @hededcdn
      @hededcdn 4 роки тому +5

      So is the 80 million dead from Communism in China, alone.

    • @KK-eg3em
      @KK-eg3em 4 роки тому +1

      But muh Covid 19.

  • @DmitriyNosov
    @DmitriyNosov 6 років тому +42

    First half of the 20th century. It was REALLY recently! Have human's mind changed a much since then? Don't think so

    • @feelingcheetah1
      @feelingcheetah1 5 років тому

      Well we don’t have racist dictators in Europe murdering Jews rn so I’d say yex

  • @danielherrera9510
    @danielherrera9510 7 років тому +8

    MY great great grandfather served in ww2 and got 5 purple hearts 1 medal of honer

  • @admiralkeelhauled42
    @admiralkeelhauled42 7 років тому +868

    Millennials be like: "OMG 2016 was the worst year ever!"

    • @MundusMeus974
      @MundusMeus974 7 років тому +95

      You know what I hate? Stereotypes, feck off mate

    • @jacobwoolf2010
      @jacobwoolf2010 7 років тому +64

      MachoNachoes way to generalize an entire genoration of people

    • @bope7103
      @bope7103 7 років тому +96

      2016 was paradise compared to the 1930's.

    • @mexicanmapper5064
      @mexicanmapper5064 7 років тому +12

      Jacob Woolf its true and both u and me know it

    • @MegaBallPowerBall
      @MegaBallPowerBall 7 років тому +24

      MachoNachoes It was. In November 2016 freedom and liberty in America ended with the "election" of an orange colored Russian agent who will betray America in exchange for Russian bribes.

  • @patrickshea5955
    @patrickshea5955 4 роки тому +7

    Tbh I'd say this shows the absolute resilience of the human race. To think we been through so much shit and can still have a functioning world is just amazing

  • @jawn1977jaws
    @jawn1977jaws 7 років тому +152

    ...the best time to be alive ...the 1970's.... Rock and roll was coming of age, the space age gave millions a greater sense of pride in their country, and , most importantly a cheap and nearly endless supply of Muscle Cars to purchase second hand for $1,000 to 2,000 dollars !

    • @youwilldie8835
      @youwilldie8835 7 років тому +19

      jawn1977jaws wrong. Best time to be alive is 1941 western ussr

    • @VictorHernandez-tm5np
      @VictorHernandez-tm5np 7 років тому +1

      jawn1977jaws LMFAOOOOO

    • @PrincessAshley12
      @PrincessAshley12 7 років тому +18

      I'm a Black feamle and the best time to be alive was in the 1800's...... Wait nvm.

    • @scpsecurecontainprotect5121
      @scpsecurecontainprotect5121 7 років тому +13

      PrincessAshley121 Oh, so your just trying to find a way to be an ass. Damn racist.

    • @tomself6505
      @tomself6505 7 років тому +1

      .no good time to live; many good times to die.

  • @michaelmahrous9025
    @michaelmahrous9025 7 років тому +56

    You didnt metion the Armenians during the armenian genocide

    • @pbrower2a1
      @pbrower2a1 7 років тому +1

      If you want to treat Turkey as a European country because it was a European power...only Japan adopted western technology and political life so avidly in Asia.

    • @shlomogoldenshekelberg918
      @shlomogoldenshekelberg918 7 років тому

      michael mahrous oy vey neva forget armenian shoah

    • @_spahgettifactoria8323
      @_spahgettifactoria8323 7 років тому

      There whas no genocide the western powers are trying to make armenians mad and fuck with turkey

    • @thegoodfella2045
      @thegoodfella2045 7 років тому

      Never happen

    • @thegoodfella2045
      @thegoodfella2045 7 років тому

      michael mahrous never happen

  • @dayoutubechannel465
    @dayoutubechannel465 7 років тому +109

    And people complain about whats going on nowadays...

    • @Pikkabuu
      @Pikkabuu 7 років тому +24

      Just because things were worse in the past doesn't mean that we shouldn't care about problems today.
      If you had lived on the street and now you would live on a house but found out that the roof of your house is leaking, then would you just shurg it off as you used to live on the street?

    • @jayeisenhardt1337
      @jayeisenhardt1337 7 років тому +3

      More like I was homeless now I'm complaining my summer homes don't match in wall paper and the floor plan doesn't match either so I must tear them both down so I can be homeless again.

    • @latinace1981
      @latinace1981 7 років тому +19

      People get their feelings hurt over the stupidest things. This is the century of pussies

    • @wickedliquid1177
      @wickedliquid1177 7 років тому +3

      Yeah these pussies really think they have it rough..thats the funny thing.

    • @guitarlover1370
      @guitarlover1370 6 років тому

      We still have Africa, North Korea, and The Middle East, them places don't look like fun

  • @izzojoseph2
    @izzojoseph2 5 років тому +17

    I’m afraid to give this a thumbs up but it was well done.
    What a world we live in...
    It can be beautiful, though.

  • @pandaify5106
    @pandaify5106 7 років тому +16

    0. A Jewish person living in Jerusalem when the Romans purged it

    • @chrisdebisschop4666
      @chrisdebisschop4666 6 років тому

      ButterWarriorcj Yes, the great tribulation generation prophesied by Jesus... Matthew 24:34, 21.

  • @connormatthews7437
    @connormatthews7437 7 років тому +36

    I would include Cambodia in The Khmer Rouge

  • @hkulzsosibo
    @hkulzsosibo 4 роки тому +21

    You left out the great continent of Africa during European colonisation and the slave trade it was subjected to!

    • @supaa4512
      @supaa4512 4 роки тому +3

      He sounds European so he didn't want to include 2 things that made Europeans sound bad in the video.

    • @sevvy11
      @sevvy11 4 роки тому +2

      iRealZeta no most of us are pretty open about europe’s bad past

    • @JohnMacbeth
      @JohnMacbeth 4 роки тому +3

      The atlantic slave trade pales in comparison to anything on this list.

    • @Elton-yn8gh
      @Elton-yn8gh 4 роки тому

      Even the american slavery african slavery was like 500 years how can you not mention that or even Belgium ruling of the Congo it was a genocide

    • @deathb4bondage558
      @deathb4bondage558 4 роки тому

      thats because africa is always a bad place to live

  • @mathewmara2184
    @mathewmara2184 6 років тому +64

    Well, that was the most depressing 18 minutes of my life

    • @georgeshepherd6431
      @georgeshepherd6431 5 років тому

      Yes! Mine too!

    • @danh5150
      @danh5150 5 років тому +6

      That's one outlook. But from another angle, it puts the small crap in perspective and makes you appreciate how (relatively) good you have it compared to most humans throughout history. Just a thought. Peace!

    • @paulanthony5274
      @paulanthony5274 5 років тому +4

      I take it you never watched a theresa may speech

    • @zbn-meinewenigkeit1905
      @zbn-meinewenigkeit1905 5 років тому

      @@paulanthony5274 How true

  • @robertovela5700
    @robertovela5700 7 років тому +77

    Be greatful for what you have guys

    • @koolkidzpoppin8462
      @koolkidzpoppin8462 7 років тому +1

      Roberto Vela I'm a girl

    • @robertovela5700
      @robertovela5700 7 років тому +2

      Yea

    • @catgang.
      @catgang. 7 років тому

      😂

    • @OscarM452
      @OscarM452 7 років тому

      Roberto Vela e

    • @gerrywarner
      @gerrywarner 7 років тому +2

      TakeoutLime47 really? Would you seriously correct someone whilst they said an inspirational quote? Jackass

  • @maltese_tiger_272
    @maltese_tiger_272 7 років тому +19

    I ain't growing to ww1 because my great great grandfather was a commanding German officer.

    • @ekimaulthar2044
      @ekimaulthar2044 7 років тому

      for starters; during the next war they would've had to take commands from a fucking Corporal...

    • @F2XPR02P3C7
      @F2XPR02P3C7 7 років тому

      Mike Kozenko taking command from any corporal is always annoying, specially in highschool

    • @byzant2679
      @byzant2679 7 років тому +2

      Cooldude 59 if I went back to WW1 I would be killed by the ottomans so I have to stay inside all day sucks tho.

    • @braydenwilliams2861
      @braydenwilliams2861 7 років тому

      Same

  • @paulmitford5189
    @paulmitford5189 4 роки тому +4

    My great grandfather survived WW1 and the trenches; drank 2 bottles of vodka a day, smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day and died at 27. He was run over by a bus.

    • @agoogleuser4443
      @agoogleuser4443 4 роки тому +1

      My ex husband's twin brother made it through Vietnam and got killed by a drunk driver smashing into him doing like 80 mph in a truck.

  • @marksill8020
    @marksill8020 6 років тому +18

    Cambodia comes to mind as a bad time/area to live through.

  • @rtothes936
    @rtothes936 5 років тому +36

    The gaze from the man on the last frame is frightening. To all that have fought, and died. GOD BLESS &
    REST IN PEACE.

  • @Ffollies
    @Ffollies 4 роки тому +4

    This sure puts things in perspective. This corona virus is truly NOTHING compared with anything in this video. The financial situation, again NOTHING. Kind of like comparing a fist fight to WWII. Count your blessings everyone, there's never been a better time to be alive than today.

  • @exine5349
    @exine5349 7 років тому +340

    2017:
    We have Jake Paul.

  • @danielwest6095
    @danielwest6095 5 років тому +18

    Cambodia under communist rule definitely could have made the list

  • @ElBandito
    @ElBandito 7 років тому +21

    Bet Switzerland was laughing in early 20th Century. :D

  • @jamesjirik
    @jamesjirik 4 роки тому +2

    Wow very well done. Very informative. Thank you. and it inspired in me to look into becoming a history teacher.

  • @fredmaxwell9619
    @fredmaxwell9619 7 років тому +4

    Cambodia 1975-1979 when the Khmer Rogue murdered 25% of the population, North Korea now, or a slave in the Americas between 1800-1865. They may not be worst then the 5 listed but they were/are terrible. Even more horrifying is how many examples there are to choose from.

    • @regaininglife9084
      @regaininglife9084 6 років тому

      I think you need to learn about history. There's thousands of years of slavery, war, rape, etc. All this modern shit is nothing in comparison.