The 10 Most Ruthless Leaders in the world that Ever Lived

The 10 Most Ruthless Leaders in the world that Ever Lived.

Idi Amin Dada

Idi Amin Dada, the military dictator and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, was one of the most ruthless rulers in history. Amin joined the King’s African Rifles, a British colonial unit, in 1946 and rose to the rank of Major General in the post-colonial Ugandan Army, eventually becoming its Commander, until deposing Milton Obote in a military coup in January 1971. During his time as the head of state, he was appointed to Field Marshal. Human rights violations, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, and the deportation of Indians from Uganda marked his reign. The number of individuals murdered was estimated to be between 80,000 and 500,000.

He despised Europeans. ” We used to carry Europeans, but now we’re being carried by Europeans. ” We’ve ascended to the throne. . . They came from the United Kingdom to demonstrate that I am truly powerful in my country. ” Amin was eventually deposed, but he maintained that Uganda needed him until his death, and he never showed regret for his regime’s excesses. On July 20, 2003, he died of kidney failure at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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Attila The Hun

From 434 to 453, Attila (Attila the Hun) was the monarch of the Huns. He was the ruler of the Hunnic Empire, which spanned the Ural and Rhine rivers, as well as the Danube and Baltic Seas.

He was regarded as one of history’ s most heinous criminals. He is regarded as the embodiment of cruelty and rapacity throughout much of Western Europe. He conquered the Balkans and crossed the Danube twice, but he was unable to take Constantinople. In 451 he crossed the Rhine and marched as far as Aurelianum (Orleans) before being defeated at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains.

He then invaded Italy, destroying the northern provinces but failing to capture Rome. He planned more campaigns against the Romans in the future. In 452, he returned to reclaim his marriage to Honoria, invading and devastating Italy in the process.

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On the night of his wedding, Attila drowned in his own blood. In the first months of 453, he perished.

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan was the head and Great Khan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which after his death became the world’s biggest contiguous empire. He rose to power by unifying several of northeast Asia’s nomadic tribes. He began the Mongol invasions that resulted in the subjugation of most of Eurasia after forming the Mongol Empire and was dubbed ” Genghis Khan. ” He was both a warrior and a king. Starting from humble origins, he and his family placed all of Mongolia’s nomadic tribes under their control in a highly regimented military state.

Pol Pot

From 1976 until 1979, Pol Pot was the head of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia. On April 17, 1975, Pol Pot was elected as Cambodia’s leader. His hardline communist administration ordered large city evacuations, killed or displaced millions of people, and left a legacy of disease and starvation throughout his time in power. Under his command, at least one million people died as a result of forced labor, famine, sickness, torture, or execution.

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Vlad Tepes

Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (Vlad the Impaler), was a three-time Voivode of Wallachia, governing mostly from 1456 to 1462, during the early Ottoman invasion of the Balkans. Vlad is primarily known for the mythology surrounding the heinous punishments he inflicted throughout his reign, as well as serving as the inspiration for the vampire. Disemboweling, rectal and face impalement, and other types of torture were favorites of his. He tortured tens of thousands of people while eating and drinking amid the bodies.

People were tormented by Vlad, who had him skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, cut, nailed, buried alive, stabbed, and so on. He also enjoyed chopping off noses, ears, and s3xual organs, as well as limbs.

Russia’s Ivan IV

Ivan IV of Russia (Ivan IV Vasilyevich), also known as Ivan the Terrible, was the first ruler of Russia and the first to be proclaimed tsar of Russia. Ivan was recognized as clever and pious, but he was also described as prone to rages and intermittent bouts of mental illness, according to historical records. He relished impaling people and burning thousands of people with frying pans.

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Ivan’s men constructed walls around the city’s perimeter to keep the residents from fleeing. Every day, the military rounded up between 500 and 1000 individuals, tortured them, and executed them in front of Ivan and his kid. His paranoid suspicions and brutal persecution of nobility are well remembered. On March 28, Ivan died of a stroke while playing chess with Bogdan Belsky.

Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Eichmann was born in Solingen, a tiny Rhineland industrial city, on March 19, 1906. He was a German who was one of the Holocaust’ s main organizers. For his role in the N@zi genocide of Jews during World War II, he was executed by the state of Israel. ” On my conscience, the slaughter of five million Jews brings me enormous satisfaction.

Belgium’s King Leopold II

Leopold II was the King of Belgium, and is well known for forming the Congo Free State and exploiting it brutally. He succeeded his father to the throne on 17 December 1865, and remained king until his death. He was born in Brussels, the second son of Leopold I and Louise- Marie of Orléans.

Leopold established the Congo Free State, a private enterprise that used forced labor to gather rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa, resulting in the deaths of around 3 million Congolese.

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was born in Austria and led the National Socialist German Workers Party. He was Germany’s chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and N@zi Germany’s dictator from 1934 to 1945. Hitler played a pivotal role in the rise of Nazism, the outbreak of World War II, and the Holocaust. By the end of WWII, Hitler’s programs of territorial conquest and racial enslavement had killed and displaced tens of millions of people, including the slaughter of about six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust. Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, by shooting himself and biting into a cyanide capsule at the same time.

Josef Stalin

From 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union. Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries responsible for the 1917 Russian Revolution. Stalin most likely had more political influence than any other historical ruler. During the 1930s, millions of peasants were either killed or starved to death on his instructions. While maintaining an iron grip on the Soviet Union for 29 years, Stalin caused the deaths of more than 20 million of his own people.

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