Posted on 10/16/2015 3:29:36 PM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy
One man's hero is another man's tyrant, a popular aphorism goes.
But while we can argue the validity and virtue of certain political agendas, the callous methods by which some leaders attain their goals are less up to interpretation.
After all, no matter how a historian tries to spin it, ordering a tower to be constructed out of live men stacked and cemented together with bricks and mortar is pretty brutal.
Business Insider put together a list of the most ruthless leaders of all time featuring men and women who employed merciless tactics to achieve their political and military agendas.
[Here the list of the names; detail at the link]
Qin Shi Huang
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula)
Attila the Hun
Wu Zetian
Genghis Khan
Tomas de Torquemada
Timur (aka Tamerlane)
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (aka Vlad Drăculea or Vlad the Impaler)
Czar Ivan IV (aka Ivan the Terrible)
Queen Mary I (aka Bloody Mary)
Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (aka the Blood Countess)
Maximilien Robespierre
King Leopold II of Belgium
Mehmet Talat Paşa
Vladimir Lenin
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Khorloogiin Choibalsan
Francisco Franco
Mao Zedong
Pol Pot
Idi Amin
Augusto Pinochet
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Vlad, impaled tens of thousands of mooselimbs.
Good job there Vlad.
Ya didn’t rid the world entirely of this blight but ua did a good job trying.
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