Good day fans worldwide. As I earlier promised, this is a list of the most mean devils man has ever seen.
The most unfortunate aspect to researching this list was
the realization that that I could do a top 100 most evil
men and still have a multitude of people for a second list!
The selection of this list is based not upon death tolls, but
upon the general actions, and impact, or brutality of the
people. From bad to worst, here are the top 10 evil men
in history.
10. Attila was Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death in
453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched
from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube
River to the Baltic Sea. In much of Western Europe, he is
remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity. An
unsuccessful campaign in Persia was followed in 441 by
an invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire, the success of
which emboldened Attila to invade the West. He passed
unhindered through Austria and Germany, across the
Rhine into Gaul, plundering and devastating all in his path
with a ferocity unparalleled in the records of barbarian
invasions and compelling those he overcame to augment
his mighty army. Attila drowned in his own blood on his
wedding night.
9. Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre was a leader of the French
revolution and it was his arguments that caused the
revolutionary government to murder the king without a
trial. In addition, Robespierre was one of the main driving
forces behind the reign of terror, a 10 month post-
revolutionary period in which mass executions were
carried out. The Terror took the lives of between 18,500
to 40,000 people, with 1,900 being killed in the last
month. Among people who were condemned by the
revolutionary tribunals, about 8 percent were aristocrats,
6 percent clergy, 14 percent middle class, and 70 percent
were workers or peasants accused of hoarding, evading
the draft, desertion, rebellion, and other purported crimes.
In an act of coincidental justice, Robespierre was
guillotined without a trial in 1794.
8. Ayatollah Khomeini was the religious leader of Iran from
1979 to 1989. In that time he implemented Sharia Law
(Islamic religious law) with the Islamic dress code
enforced for both men and women by Islamic
Revolutionary Guards and other Islamic groups.
Opposition to the religious rule of the clergy or Islam in
general was often met with harsh punishments. In a talk
at the Fayzieah School in Qom, August 30, 1979,
Khomeini said:
“Those who are trying to bring corruption and destruction
to our country in the name of democracy will be
oppressed. They are worse than Bani-Ghorizeh Jews, and
they must be hanged. We will oppress them by God’s
order and God’s call to prayer.”
In the 1988 massacre of Iranian prisoners, following the
People’s Mujahedin of Iran operation Forough-e Javidan
against the Islamic Republic, Khomeini issued an order to
judicial officials to judge every Iranian political prisoner
and kill those who would not repent anti-regime activities.
Many say that thousands were swiftly put to death inside
the prisons. The suppressed memoirs of Grand Ayatollah
Hossein-Ali Montazeri reportedly detail the execution of
30,000 political activists.
After eleven days in a hospital for an operation to stop
internal bleeding, Khomeini died of cancer on Saturday,
June 04, 1989, at the age of 86.
7. Idi Amin Dada
Idi Amin was an army officer and president of Uganda. He
took power in a military coup in January 1971, deposing
Milton Obote. His rule was characterized by human rights
abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extra
judicial killings and the expulsion of Indians from Uganda.
The number of people killed as a result of his regime is
unknown; estimates range from 80,000 to 500,000. On
August 4, 1972, Amin issued a decree ordering the
expulsion of the 60,000 Asians who were not Ugandan
citizens (most of them held British passports). This was
later amended to include all 80,000 Asians, with the
exception of professionals, such as doctors, lawyers and
teachers. Amin was eventually overthrown, but until his
death, he held that Uganda needed him and he never
expressed remorse for the abuses of his regime.
6. Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II was King of Belgium from 1865-1909. With
financial support from the government, Leopold created
the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken to
extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central
Africa, which relied on forced labour and resulted in the
deaths of approximately 3 million Congolese. The regime
of the Congo Free State became one of the more
infamous international scandals of the turn of the
century. The area of land privately owned by the King was
an area 76 times larger than Belgium, which he was free
to rule as a personal domain through his private army, the
Force Publique. Leopold’s rubber gatherers tortured,
maimed and slaughtered until at the turn of the century,
the conscience of the Western world forced Brussels to
call a halt.
5. Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime
Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979, having been de
facto leader since mid-1975. During his time in power Pol
Pot imposed an extreme version of agrarian communism
where all city dwellers were relocated to the countryside
to work in collective farms and forced labour projects.
The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor
medical care and executions is estimated to have killed
around 2 million Cambodians (approximately one third of
the population). His regime achieved special notoriety for
singling out all intellectuals and other “bourgeois
enemies” for murder. The Khmer Rouge committed mass
executions in sites known as the Killing Fields. The
executed were buried in mass graves. In order to save
ammunition, executions were often carried out using
hammers, axe handles, spades or sharpened bamboo
sticks.
4. Vlad Dracula
Vlad III of Romania (also known as Vlad the Impaler) was
Prince of Wallachia three times between 1448 and 1476.
Vlad is best known for the legends of the exceedingly
cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for
serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire main
character in Bram Stoker’s popular Dracula novel. In
Romania he is viewed by many as a prince with a deep
sense of justice. His method of torture was a horse
attached to each of the victim’s legs as a sharpened
stake was gradually forced into the body. The end of the
stake was usually oiled, and care was taken that the
stake not be too sharp; else the victim might die too
rapidly from shock. Wikipedia has an article that
describes, in great details, the methods of Vlad’s cruelty.
The list of tortures he is alleged to have employed is
extensive: nails in heads, cutting off of limbs, blinding,
strangulation, burning, cutting off of noses and ears,
mutilation of sexual organs (especially in the case of
women), scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or
to animals, and boiling alive. There are claims that on
some occasions ten thousand people were impaled in
1460 alone.
3. Ivan IV of Russia
Ivan IV of Russia, also know as Ivan the Terrible, was the
Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 to 1547 and was the
first ruler of Russia to assume the title of Tsar. In 1570,
Ivan was under the belief that the elite of the city of
Novgorod planned to defect to Poland, and led an army to
stop them on January 2. Ivan’s soldiers built walls around
the perimeter of the city in order to prevent the people of
the city escaping. Between 500 and 1000 people were
gathered every day by the troops, then tortured and killed
in front of Ivan and his son. In 1581, Ivan beat his
pregnant daughter-in-law for wearing immodest clothing,
causing a miscarriage. His son, also named Ivan, upon
learning of this, engaged in a heated argument with his
father, which resulted in Ivan striking his son in the head
with his pointed staff, causing his son’s (accidental)
death.
2. Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in
1933, becoming “Führer” in 1934 until his suicide in 1945.
By the end of the second world war, Hitler’s policies of
territorial conquest and racial subjugation had brought
death and destruction to tens of millions of people,
including the genocide of some six million Jews in what
is now known as the Holocaust. On 30 April 1945, after
intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were
spotted within a block or two of the Reich Chancellory,
Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while
simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule.
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1. Josef Stalin
Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 until his
death in 1953. Under Stalin’s leadership, the Ukraine
suffered from a famine (Holodomor) so great it is
considered by many to be an act of genocide on the part
of Stalin’s government. Estimates of the number of
deaths range from 2.5 million to 10 million. The famine
was caused by direct political and administrative
decisions. In addition to the famine, Stalin ordered purges
within the Soviet Union of any person deemed to be an
enemy of the state. In total, estimates of the total number
murdered under Stalins reign, range from 10 million to 60
million.
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