So the guy who murdered 77,000,000 is ranked in brutality just above Pol Pot with a measly 2 mil? Below Hitler with a token 21 mil? Below Stalin with respectable 32 mil?
Something is off here ....
“I flayed as many nobles as had rebelled against me [and] draped their skins over the pile [of corpses]; some I spread out within the pile, some I erected on stakes upon the pile … I flayed many right through my land [and] draped their skins over the walls.”
And in another instance:
“In strife and conflict I besieged [and] conquered the city. I felled 3,000 of their fighting men with the sword … I captured many troops alive: I cut off of some their arms [and] hands; I cut off of others their noses, ears, [and] extremities. I gouged out the eyes of many troops. I made one pile of the living [and] one of heads. I hung their heads on trees around the city.”
Real bundle of chuckles, ol' Nassy. His son Shalmaneser was about the same, especially with the flaying and impalement part.
All that and they don't even merit a mention? What's a bloody-handed despot got to do, that's what I want to know...
Where’s Castro? He had tens of thousands murdered and hundreds of thousands imprisoned and tortured.
On June 20 the tomb of Tamerlane was opened and the mausoleum was filled with sharp choking odor of the mixture of resins, camphor, rose and frankincense. It should be noted that Temur died in Otrar on his way to China. Therefore to bury his body in Samarkand he had to be embalmed. Even the British and French scientists noticed that at the opening of the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs, the air was filled with a sweet scent. At first the Europeans thought that the smell was the sign of a variety of curses, but then it was proved that it was just the smell of oils used in the embalming. So in the case with Timur’s tomb we can say that the smell at the opening of the tomb was not of the curse, but of the oil for embalming.
Two days after the opening of the Timur’s tomb, on the night of June 22, Nazi Germany without declaring the war invaded the Soviet Union. Many people linked it with the opening of the tomb of Tamerlane. Samarkand people were panic-stricken. The expedition was immediately winded up, and the remains of Temur and his dynasty were sent to study in Moscow.
Finally, almost 2 years later, Stalin ordered Tamerlane's remains to be returned to the tomb. At the moment this happened, the course of the war was reversed at Stalingrad. Oh, and guess what? Tamerlane's remains were never touched again.
Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (aka the Blood Countess)
Now she was a TOTAL crackpot. I unfortunately read a book about her and it was rather all too horrible to get my head around, just unbelievably gruesome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory
It’s ridiculous to put Pinochet on the same list as Stalin. It’s like equating the A bomb and a firecracker.
Mohammed. He invented jihad and his legacy lives on today. A predictably glaring PC omission; the elephant in the room.
Vladimir Putin should have made list too.
They didn’t mention democrats either? Can you say ABORTION!
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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.