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sadly the fact is that even fewer know what he actually did. most of the deaths were the result of the labor punishments (cutting off hands), which he banned. his lack of enforcement meant the band didn't do anything. you can blame him for it. another large part of the deaths were due to sleeping disease (also a result of his exploitational reign). He funded the best tropical medicine research university in the world to find a cure for it. yes, half of the population of Congo freestate got killed during his private ownership, but he didn't "butcher" them. his was a different category of deadly reign than the guy who murdered innocent citizens because he was bored. he deserves his place on this list, but he never actually condoned the genocide that happened in his name.
How do these list makers never put the US presidents who murdered millions of Native Americans or who were in total support of the slave trade? I don't get it.
0:39: Caligula 12-41 AD (#10) 1:38: Kim Jong Il 1941-2011 (#9) 2:45: Saddam Hussain 1937-2006 (#8) 3:45: Leopold II of Belgium 1835-1909 (#7) 4:38: Mao Zedong 1893-1976 (#6) 5:27: Genehis Khan 1162-1227 (#5) 6:24: Vald The Impaler 1431-76/77 (#4) 7:17: Pol Pot 1925-98 (#3) 8:10: Joseph Stalin 1878-1953 (#2) 9:19: Adolf Hitler 1889-1945 (#1)
Are you serious!? Prove your comment…name one US politician who can be placed on this list and the one who can be removed! Going back to czars up to today a list can be made of only Russians!
To a degree, I'm surprised that Hideki Tojo, the Japanese prime minister during world war 2, wasn't on this list. Although I can't argue how evil the others on this list were because they were, but the deaths and atrocities that were the result of his orders were appalling.
@@jpmtlhead39 hirohito was pressured by the people around him especially tojo to allow their actions to be done the people around him had better knowledge of foreign affairs as he did so he thought their choices were Tldr the best to describe is hirohitos way of being emperor is to take it hands off and let others make the choices instead of him
@@staringcorgi6475 that dont make him Innocent at all,of the atrocities commited by the Japonese all around Asia/ Pacific countries. Specialy way before Pearl Harbor, Hiroito was the one who ordered the invasion of china,not Tojo. He knew abaut everything his soldiers were doing there,like the Nanquim Massacre/ Rape. Even the Japonese newspapers were keepping the Japonese people well informed of the body count among the Chinese civilians. It was another political choice by the Us because of the Soviet Union,just that,otherwise he would have met the firing Squad.
yep. "even years after his execution..." - "no chemical weapons were found" I expected the rest of the sentence would go... but hey, it´s not like they were unbiased, so...
Chemical weapons were found. The catch is they were from pre-1991. Saddam had hid them rather than dispose of them. The US never admitted to this because it muddied the communication that they were continuing to develop them. So Saddam was not a massive threat by continuing production but still was in violation of the Geneva Protocol.
Yes, realpolitik was and is a sad reality in international relations. Countries have always sided with and supported the worst regimes because it was convenient to do so. In 1979 the US was still bitter about losing in Vietnam, so they saw the Khmer Rouge as a useful tool against the Vietnamese. As Henry Kissinger once said, "The Khmer Rouge are murderous thugs, but we won't let that stand in our way."
this happens a lot, saddam Hossein is knows as one of the greatest evils now but when he attacked iran for 8 years we were fighting his regime he was fully endorsed by west even receiving so much supplies and supports but when he attacked a US ally (kuwait) he became the world greatest evil the world sees evil very subjectively
Your country never fought "the Pol Pot" Khmer Rouge because of humanitarian issues, your country fought over long disputed border issues. A quarter of the Cambodian population died under Khmer Rouge rule, and no one knows the approximate number: it ranges anywhere from 1.5 to 3 million. It's a huge discrepancy, and there's a reason for that. Under the Khmer Rouge rule, families were split apart, and those who initially survived and were put into work camps. During the Vietnamese invasion, the Khmer Rouge broke down and many people were able to flee to Thailand. Others decided to stay, and became victims of Vietnamese-occupied forced starvation. I think the Khmer Rouge Regime is responsible for at least 1.7 million deaths, with the Vietnamese responsible for an additional 1 million. By the way, how are the ethnic "Montagnards" doing in your country? I mean the ancestral inhabitants of many portions of Vietnam? You know, the people your country hunted down and killed by the tens of thousands of? The people still being persecuted by your government simply because of their ethnicity and their wartime alliance to the US?
@@keeftaylor834 Again, you may not know or may not care but we did not invade Cambodia. Invasion is like when the US invaded Iraq or Afghanistan. We just had peace after 30 years of wars with the West. Do you think that we actually wanted another unnecessary war? You can stay there and talk about our country without even stepping foot on it. Be my guest and visit Vietnam, my friend. We don’t want war. We want peace but sure, we will put up a good fight against whoever want to invade us. How ironic (again) for an American (the country who invaded many countries) to talk about peace and democracy. If you want to know, see it for yourself. Oh by the way, did you forget that US-China alliance used Pol Pot and actually the figures behind to support it to mess with my country. I could proudly say that I don’t have to carry any firearms or feel scared of being shot at in public in my country. Different country has different political stances, different ideologies, agendas and problems, if you want to know and experience, come and visit my country. My grandpa fought in 2 wars, come and ask him, ask my grandma how it was to live under the Christmas bombing. Sure there are problems in my country, there is no country with no problems. Even the US. But at least, we are not aggressor here, not in the past, the present and the future. We fight when we need to fight. Good day my friend!
It is so disheartening to see just how evil and despicable some humans can be to other humans and the atrocities they are willing to commit in the name of greed and power, it makes me weep for the human race and wonder if humans deserve to exist at all. The cruelty they so callously dish out just staggers the mind, the fact that it is still happening even now shows that humans have learned nothing.
@Cuyler Barnhill I'd like to believe that, but the fact that our only home is crumbling around us and not enough of us are pulling together to help correct the wrongs we've done....well you get the idea. Time will tell of course; but how much time do we have? Nothing lasts forever!!!
@@DestinyYlisse My community college had a play of The Tempest that I had to watch for my Theater Arts class (General Ed) and I don't remember every dialogue, so I don't even remember this dialogue.
Its in all of us. All have the capacity for these kinds of atrocities. The majority of us should stay away from any kind of real power. Lack of foresight and a inability to humanitize "the other" will always lead to these results.
So true .. imagine what other people who have done worse than these evil people here ? It’s like when that talk about serial killers .. there’s probably a lot out there who never been or got caught…
Timur deserves to be on this list,he's conquest has claimed around 17 million lives,5% of then world's population and he's one of more obscured history figures
Timur is a good one he wiped out cities and I mean everyone in that city. And the guy who commented what about churchhill is an idiot and doesn't know anything about history
@@spencergouveia7449 No he was racist simple.He restocked the food which was for people of Bengal out of there for his army fighting WW2 out of fear coz Japanese were thumping British repeatedly.
@@vatsalsingh1555 ok so how does that make him worst then anyone on the list stain starved all of the Ukraine killing 20 million hiw many people died in bengel due to him moving food to fight a war
It’s crazy to think that in the future there’s probably gonna be someone else to top this list .. a lot of these things happened not too long ago .. kind of sad our species doesn’t learn from all these evil people
There's a certain someone just a single button press away from this becoming reality right now... And for whatever fucking reason, he kind of seems eager to press it!
I think there is definitely also going to be a recency bias with a list like this. It's not that all of the worst people I history are from the last 100 years, it's that we far better understand how terrible these people were. Trying to find the same level of detail in the atrocities for someone like Caligula as hitler is obviously not going to be easy. Not to mention if we try to "rank" them based on the total loss of life, obviously this would bias towards more modern times when the population is much higher. Just wanted to say this to not be so pessimistic in humanity.
@@ryanward5770 yeah I understand that but it doesn’t seem like Humans are getting better at loving one another.. it seems like the world is just getting more hateful and shameless and weirder by the day …
What is most terrifying is the fact that out of everyone on this list 7 out of 10 are in the last 150 years. Out of all history 7 out of 10 most horrific people were in such recent times. Although this could just be because of inaccurate records from older civilizations not being good enough to put someone on this list such as some of the atrocities that pharohs committed in treatment of their slaves and other such situations as it was much easier to hide such atrocities then as we are in an age of information that is able to spread quickly and much farther than before. After all I am sure with the way slaves and other races were often treated by civilizations they probably didn't even think it worth mentioning in records when executing or murdering thousands of them.
I feel like Vlad the Impaler and Genghis Khan were more men of their time than "Evil". Vlad spent most of his reigns defending agenist the Hungarians, Ottomans and internal usurpers. What he did was standard for Early Modern Europe back then. Genghis Khan was quite moderate for his time, if you just surrendered and paid him a tax most cities and settlements were left alone.
I don't think what Ivan the Terrible did was standard for the time, hence his nickname. You don't get a nickname like that by just being run of the mill, ya know?
Dude Genghis Khan and his armies wiped out almost half the population of Asia and parts of Europe. It's not ok to murder people who don't want you to let you in or pay you taxes.
Nero was nowhere near as evil as most. In fact he was quite a good emperor. His reputation is this bad because he angered a lot of nobles and let Christian be persecuted. Both of course wrote the history books. Most of his evil deeds were a mere product of his time.
Nah. If they talked about that, they might have to talk about the fact that the legal basis for settler colonies to this day is the same as back then: _Terra nullius_ and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery!
No. The individuals on this list are chosen based on what the evil things they do to the very people they govern or rule over in their own territory. War and conquest is a horrible thing, but countries have been getting involved in wars and conquering distant lands from time immemorial, and is not factored into these lists because unfortunately its so universal.
I know. They do whatever the hell they like but if someone else acts in the same way they are considered evil and an enemy. It makes me feel sick that my country follows their wishes like a little puppy dog (I'm british btw)
They bomb Hiroshima and japan ,erase 150,000 innocent human out of existence and they talk about peace and love ! America and west are the most disgusting twp things that happend to humanity
I'd put Goerbles over Hitler. It was Joseph Goerbles who came up with the idea of the Holocaust and invading Poland to start WWII. Hitler just went along with it. Doesn't make Hitler less of a monster, but he was the face and Goerbles was the brain.
So you think the person tht says hey thts a good idea and does nothing is worse than the person that actually did, I don't think Hitler is the most evil man in history, but u cant really think coming up with an idea is worse than pulling it off, I could see if he was pulling strings but he wasn't
Cortes? If you think Cortes was bad, then look at the people he was fighting. The Aztec empire was one of the most despicable entities in human history. Cortes only had about 200 men, so his army was made up almost entirely of native groups like the Tlaxcala who were wanted to revolt against the tyranny of Tenochtitlan.
Misconception about Nero, the reason he killed his mother was because she used him as a puppet to rule the empire and just overall manipulated and used him pushing him to kill her
Vlad is one of the most evil men, but he had to defend his kingdom from the invading east at all cost. He might of killed some of his own people, but he mainly did those acts against external enemies who tried to invade his nation. I give him the benefit of the doubt.
@@sandmandzkhalil3618 lmfao the muslims from the east were trying to invade his nation, so you want him to hand over his kingdom because they wanted it? if anyone tried to invade my country, my home, or my community with evil intentions, you damn right i would do the same thing to let their comrades know that taking this stretch of land isn't worth doing.
@@sandmandzkhalil3618 and quite honestly, put me on the list idc. I seen and learned more about the evil deeds of most leaders in the modern age that are worse than 20,000 people. like stalin, like hitler, and like the chinese but you're stuck on a man defending his home. your brain is fried
@@williamsummerson1204 yup and i will mute you to if you think protecting your own land is illegal. Yeah he punish some of his own people, but that's nothing compared to external forces trying to enter his kingdom even when told not to.
Funny. We learned about the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot in World History. It was part of the Southeast Asia history section along with the French colonization and obviously the Vietnam War.
You must be older, OP. They didn't teach you because people still knew Pol Pot was a CIA stooge back then. These kids who replied, well, their generation is far enough removed that he can just be painted as much evil, and nobody questions how the US actually sanctioned Vietnam for going to war to stop him...
Just to upgrade the list a little bit... 1 Jorge Mario Bergoglio (namely THE FALSE POPE) 2 Henry Kissinger 3 George Soros 4 Joe Biden 5 Barack Obama 6 Ursula Von Der Leyen 7 Mario Draghi 8 Hillary Clinton 9 Bill Gates 10 Klaus Schwab
Vlad the Impaler may have killed people in horrible ways, but it's important to note that most of his victims were enemies of his people (especially the invading Turks but also the rich who exploited the poor). But apparently he also killed some innocent people like disabled ones, so wasn't all good..
No list of this type would be complete without Iwane Matsui and other Japanese leaders of ww2, they committed mass murder in China. And also Gilles de Rais
Thank you for keeping this on point and educational. Idi Amin should make the next list. There is one thing to keep in mind, if the an American leader were to start down this lane it would make all these evil men look like amateurs. We must not let anyone manipulate our emotions. It has started however. We must stop it.
I don't know if Vlad the Impaler belongs on this list. A lot of the tales about his cruelty are most likely just propaganda, sometimes of his own people to instill more fear into their enemies. Most serious historians agree that he probably wasn't that much worse than your average warlord during the time and in Romania he's even considered a hero.
Or Mussolini, Franco. And their were quite a few Eastern European dictators during the Cold War. Ivan the Terrible is another one. Fidel Castro. All the Apartheid-Era South African Presidents.
@John Bond ya absolutely. Many were also saying Putin lol Oh please. I mean Putin isn't a great guy but to compare him to the likes of Genghis Khan and Stalin. These people are clueless. You can tell they have total recency bias and low attention spans.
@@jacksonjacob7791 bro you are most certainly a fascist if you believe this... hitler was trying to eradicate entire races. stalin had political purges. it doesn't stack up
Evil does not die. It has been here in all of human history. And it's scary to not see the ones doing a lot of evil get killed, considering how the ones who are in improving the world get killed more.
I agree Hitler was evil, but I think Stalin and Mao were both way worse than Hitler was just because of the sheer volume of people that died because of them. Even if they died indirectly from something it’s still the responsibility of the leader of the country to take care of his people. That’s what dictator’s are supposed to do in their utopian socialist society.
There was a point in every single one of those periods in time where those who had the power to put the breaks on thought: "it won't run out of control"
But people like Hitler had any opposition killed in the night of the long knives and with the army behind him what could anyone do?No one could even assassinate him he survived over 40 known assassination attempts.Stalin was the same he got rid of any opposition too
I think 1 and 2 should be switched. While Hitler was absolutely evil, I have to say Stalin was worse. Stalin tends to get a pass because he helped fight Hitler.
It's western propaganda that made ppl believe he's evil. When in reality he was the direct opposite to Hitler. Stalin is the only reason you don't speak German now, that's for sure.
Oh yeah, I was thinking there was someone else in that family who was as bad. Everyone remembers Caligula and Nero because they were severely mentally ill, but Tiberius was a sane tyrant and pure evil, which is arguably even worse.
Amazing that Mao's great leap forward and the amount of deaths it caused is about to be replayed with the great leap to Green energy. How will those be remembered that cost so many lives throughout the world if we push things faster than we should.
The sad thing is after going through all the comments there's so many evil men in history. Between the video and the comments there's probably about 30 people, and I still saw people that were missed. Suharto, Papa Doc, Ceausescu, William McKinley just to name a few. Again all more recent. Ancient times had their fair share and torture devices were worse than in modern times.
I think Stalin and Hitler should switch. They're basically the same guy almost, but Stalin has successfully killed 1.66x more people. And I may be a little personal here, but I also think Nero was a worse Roman Emperor than Caliguwa due to his borderline Christophobia. Would have also liked to see Kim Jong-Il to be a big higher on the list. Some honorable mentions also could include Osama Bin Laden and Joseph Kony as honorable mentions. I am glad to see Genghis Kahn on the list, I had some friends who literally thought he was a good guy and brought up false equivalencies whenever argued against.
Speaking of which, my friend who lives in Bangladesh is disappointed with how there is a lack of Middle Eastern Extremists on the list and noted while Saddam is easily contender for the list, didn't really count according to him.
Genghis kahn wasn't a bad guy. back then every tribe wanted power if you weren't stronger than another tribe you would be invaded. when his dad died (because of betrayal by two tribes who he called allies who wanted his power) he was left by his tribe to die in the harsh winter with his mother and baby brothers. he survived and was living his life peacefully when he was invaded again by the same people who left him to die. he was captured and sentenced to death for no express purpose. He escaped and began to join the tribes together to get revenge for his father's death. He got revenge and then went about conquering his enemy's. he was not a bad person he abolished slavery and gave his subjects religious freedom he would leave colonies alone if they surrendered and paid him or joined his army. he was a kind conqueror in comparison to literally any other of that time and this time as well. He killed so many because its kill or be killed. So to say he's evil because he was good at fighting is just blatantly wrong.
It's hard to judge certain people like Vlad the Impaler and Khan, because they were driven by the problems, politics and dangers of their time. Also, is Vlad the impaler really more wicked then say, Ted Bundy?
It seems the list is based on the number of deaths they're responsible for. Not necessarily why or how. There's plenty of other evil men in history. Castro, Bundy, Manson, BTK, Jim Jones, Ivan the Terrible... but these guys don't have the death count that can compete with this list.
It's a question of scale. These guys killed by the millions. Bundy killed twenty. Sure, he was evil, but there's quite a difference between 20 and 20,000,000.
Right. Thats part of the reason why I disagree with people saying that Hernan Cortes should be on the list (with the other reason being that his army that he fought the Aztecs with was made entirely of the oppressed citizens of the Aztec Empire revolting against the tyranny of Tenochtitlan.)
@watchmojo it's interesting timing you put this up. I was rethinking yesterday a question I asked a professor in college on why Hitler is the image of evil. His answer was this "I guess I'd make a two part answer to your question. For Saddam, he's pretty much a run-of-the-mill vicious dictator-killed thousands, but his crimes pale when compared to Hitler's and Stalins. Those two are on the same level in terms of sheer volume, so your question is a little harder to answer when you compare the two of them. I'd say one part of why Hitler has come to be the symbol of evil was the fact that he announced his plans and glorified what he planned to do. Then the world learned of what he'd done pretty much all at once. So there was a huge shock effect when the allied armies liberated the concentration camps and found the machinery of genocide (leave aside for the moment the historical fact that more of the killing was carried out by the mobile killing units-the einsatzgrupen) and the world saw the skeletal figures of the Jews who survived and heard their terrible stories. And then many people wrote memoires -Primo Levi, Eli Weisel-that brought the stories home and there have been the films as well. Stalin tried to conceal his crimes and with some success at the time. The world only learned of them long after the fact and without the drama of images and personal stories. To the best of my knowledge there's never been any pictoral record, for example, of the destruction of the Ukrainian communities or the other groups that Stalin attacked. The story came out in bits and pieces. There weren't the personal accounts."
What I find sad about Hitler is that he had a chance to take another path. I'm sure many saw his painting and still refuse to believe that the most evil, most known dictator of all time... was an artist. Heck he wanted to become an artist, but his dad forbad it.
Lol Hitler's paintings showed excellent technique, he never could master the human figure which is a big handicap, steered towards architecture, outdoor scenes that were as good as many of the successful artists of the time and much better than 99.9% of what you see from people nowadays, wasting art supplies and referring to the dubious finished products as 'paintings'. If he'd been accepted into art school and experienced some success he might have been too distracted and busy to pursue his er, rather unfortunate political passions ( how's that for understating it? lol). The guy was a talented artist, especially by today's standards ( ...today's standards 🤣 - ' I fed my dog a tub of lard and some blue paint and spread canvases all over the floor - what do you think? I'll start the bidding at 500K, they'll eat it up.' ). On talent alone I'll take a Hitler piece over a Twombley, Pollock or Banksy any day of the week.
You're forgetting Ferdinand Marcos Sr. who placed the Philippines under Martial Law on Sept. 21, 1972. Because of said time, thousands of Filipinos were killed extrajudicially while tens of thousands were tortured and incarcerated
Same for Suharto from Indonesia, he was responsible for the Communist purge in 1965, and anyone who dared to oppose him were forced to disappear. He also took over East Timor instead of letting them become independent and was responsible for 100,000 deaths
@@arthur2013 he should, but the guys on the list generally caused more death and destruction both within and outside their countries. Marcos has a much fewer kills than many dictators, and he did little to no harm outside the philippines. Hes considered a mid-low range dictator.
Should have been a top 20. You still have at least Tomás de Torquemada, Nero, Idi Amin, Ivan the Terrible, Attila the Hunn, King John, and Spanish Conquistadors
Where is my comment ??? Did you delete it ??? It seems to me you cant handle someone talking about Bashar Al Asad crimes, because I have read all the comments bellow and strangely no one mentioned him.
