The world we live in has seen many tragedies in many forms, such as wars, killings, genocides, riots and famines. But the real evil is hidden in the architects of these inhuman practices.
We have already written about the most cruel women in history. It's time to talk about men who can claim the title of "monster in human guise." Introducing the top 10 most evil and cruel men of all time.
10. Andrey Chikatilo
The infamous Soviet maniac, pedophile and cannibal, according to operational data, killed about 65 people. The offender himself confessed to 56 murders, and the court proved 52 episodes.
The victims of Chikatilo (most of them were minors) were found horribly disfigured, with cut off parts of the body and a cut stomach.
Chikatilo himself explained his motivation as follows: “I did not do this for the sake of sexual satisfaction. Rather, it pacified me a little. ”
After the sentencing, Andrei Chikatilo was taken to Novocherkassk prison. In 1994, he was shot and buried in an anonymous grave in a prison cemetery.
9. Gilles de Re
Could the brave warrior, a comrade-in-arms of the Orleans maiden, Joan of Arc, and the Marshal of France be one of the most evil and cruel people in history? Maybe when it comes to the French baron Gilles de Re, arrested and executed on charges of serial killings.
The charge against the marshal said that he was engaged in black magic, tortured, killed and sacrificed children, and also practiced sexual perversion.
Gilles de Re himself in court said that he killed about 800 children. However, the court considered the figure of 150 tortured children to be proven, since it did not contradict the evidence of other witnesses who participated in the trial.
In 1440, Gilles de Re was strangled in front of a huge crowd of citizens in Nantes. And his atrocities served as a prototype for creating a terrible tale of the Blue Beard.
8. Pol Pot
The name under which the leader of the Cambodian Red Khmer movement went down in history was false. At birth he was called Salot Sar, and Pol Pot is an abbreviation for politique potentielle, the policy of the possible.
This man sought to destroy the Cambodian civilization in order to start a new regime and usher in a new era of “consent that will be based on equality and democracy, the absence of exploiters and exploited, rich and poor, where everyone will work.” At the same time, the rejection of money, religion, political parties, free thinking, schools and skilled medical care was promoted. Instead of laws, it was necessary to be guided by revolutionary consciousness.
For the sake of realizing this dream, Pol Pot launched mass genocide in his country, "purifying" it of the Vietnamese, Chinese, and also those who offered the Khmer Rouge at least the slightest resistance.
During the reign of Pol Pot in Cambodia from 1975 to 1978, his policy led to the deaths of about 2 million people (according to other sources - 3.1 million people), which amounted to 25% of the country's population.
In 1998, Pol Pot, ousted by his comrades-in-arms and sentenced to life imprisonment at home, was found dead. Allegedly, he was poisoned, or he committed suicide.
7. Go Amin
This dictator, who became known as the “Butcher of Uganda” and “Black Hitler”, was in power from 1971 to 1979. During this time, he managed to repress about half a million people, and 2000 people were killed personally.
Already in the first months of his reign, Amin created death squads that cracked down on his opponents. There were so many corpses that they had to be dumped into the Nile or fed to crocodiles. Idi Amin himself was a cannibal and claimed that human meat is "even more salty than leopard meat."
Under Black Hitler, large-scale repressions were carried out against the Christian population of Uganda, despite the fact that the percentage of Muslims by religion (and Amin was one of them) did not exceed 10% in the country.
Amin’s inept leadership led to an economic collapse in the country. The currency has completely depreciated, and the standard of living of the Ugandans has become one of the lowest in the world. The only expense item for which Amin did not spare money was the army.
However, the terror against their own people and the subsequent exile after the capture of Uganda by the Tanzanian army did not lead to the trial and execution of Idi Amin. He died of natural causes in 2003, in a comfortable hospital ward of the hospital named after King Faisal in Jeddah.
6. Leopold II Belgian
Having signed hundreds of treaties with the leaders of local tribes in the Congo Basin, the Belgian King Leopold II became the ruler of the Congo Free State. Its area was several times larger than the area of Belgium.
Despite the name, the inhabitants of the Free State were considered slaves of King Leopold. A fierce colonial policy was pursued in the country: a hand was chopped off for disobedience or poor work.
Between 1885 and 1908, more than 500,000 Congo residents died of disease and starvation. In total, the Leopold II regime killed more than 10 million Congolese (50% of the Congo population). All this is just to get money from the sale of rubber, ivory and other wealth of the country.
5. Vlad the Impaler
The personality of this person served as the basis for such a character as Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's novel. Even during the reign of Wallachia, the Turks called him Kazykly (from the Turkish “kazyk” - count), which gives an idea of his favorite form of execution. And the nickname "Impaler", that is, "The Colossus", was first mentioned in Wallachian documents after the death of Vlad.
Tepes put on the stake not only living, but already killed enemies (as happened with the soldiers from the army of the candidate for the Wallachian throne of Dan), as well as the women who followed the army.
It is curious that such a cruel person was no stranger to charity. He donated money to Christian Wallachian and Greek monasteries on Mount Athos and gave funds for the construction of a church in the town of Targshor.
Vlad Kolosazhatel died in 1476, either at the hands of his servant, bribed by the Turks, or in battle.
4. Tag Behram
This man is one of the most massive serial killers in history. A native Indian, he was a member of the Tugi sect, which served the goddess Kali and was engaged in ritual killings.
Tugs robbed their victims and killed them, usually by strangulation with a rope or scarf. And Tag Behram, he said, participated in 931 murders, personally strangled 125 men and saw another 150 people strangled.
During his "career" Behram developed his own style of murder. He sewed a large medallion into his ceremonial belt and learned to deftly throw it around the victim’s neck so that the medallion appeared on an Adam's apple. This increased pressure on the throat and accelerated strangulation.
For his many crimes, Tag Behram was hanged in 1840.
3. Thomas de Torquemada
The name of the first Grand Inquisitor of Spain has become a household name for a cruel and uncompromising religious fanatic. And although during the life of Torquemada, the chroniclers called it “the light of Spain” and “the honor of their order”, after his death they began to call him differently, and without laudatory epithets.
The first historian of the Inquisition, Juan Antonio Llorente, estimated that while Torquemada headed the Holy Chancellery, 8,800 people were burnt alive in the country, and another 27,000 people were subjected to various tortures. The Spanish Inquisition burned even those whom it could not reach in person. This was done in absentia, a straw scarecrow was sent to the fire.
The Grand Inquisitor died in 1498, without any punishment for his activities.
2. Pedro Alonso Lopez
The entire youth of this serial killer from Colombia was a series of mental and physical violence. At 9 years old, he was kicked out of the house for having a sexual relationship with his own sister. Then Pedro fell into the hands of a pedophile who tortured and sold the boy to his friends.
He managed to escape and get to a married couple. Lopez even began to attend school for orphans, but there he was sexually harassed by the teacher. For the next 6 years, he wandered around, committed petty thefts and stole cars. And when he reached adulthood, he found a pedophile who was tormenting him as a child, raped and still skinned him alive.
For this, Lopez went to jail, and when he left, settled in Peru, and began to rape and kill girls and women.
After the local criminal clans became interested in who atrocities in their territory, Lopez moved to Ecuador, where he continued his atrocities. He even killed little girls. The police managed to detain him when one of the victims managed to escape and reported the maniac.
Pedro Alonso Lopez killed more than 300 people, and got into the Guinness Book of Records as the most productive serial maniac in the world. According to the BBC, he was arrested in 1980, and in 1998 secretly released and transferred to Colombia. What is happening to him now is unknown.
1. Adolf Hitler
The list of the most cruel people in the history of mankind would not be complete without a man whose name has become one of the synonyms of evil in the flesh.
The Fuhrer of Germany from 1934 to 1945 was perhaps the most creative and cruel dictator of all. He was largely responsible for the Holocaust and World War II.
Adolf Hitler's policies led to the deaths of more than 54 million people, 26 million of whom lost the Soviet Union.
Hitler committed suicide in his bunker on April 30, 1945. It is hard to believe that this man, responsible for the deaths, torture and injuries of millions of people, was once a talented artist and part of a bohemian community.
