The most evil and cruel men in history

The world we live in has seen many tragedies in many forms such as wars, assassinations, genocides, riots and famines. But the real evil is hidden in the architects of these inhuman practices.

ABOUT the most violent women in history we already wrote. It's time to tell about men who can claim the title of "monster in human form." Introducing the top 10 most evil and cruel men of all time.

10.Andrey Chikatilo

The notorious 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.

Chikatilo's victims (most of them were minors) were found terribly disfigured, with cut off body parts and a slit stomach.

Chikatilo himself explained his motivation as follows: “I did not do this for sexual satisfaction. Rather, it pacified me somewhat. "

After the sentencing, Andrey Chikatilo was taken to the Novocherkassk prison. In 1994, he was shot and buried in an unmarked grave in the prison cemetery.

9. Gilles de Rey

Could a brave warrior, ally of the Maid of Orleans herself, Jeanne D'Arc, and 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 murder.

The indictment against the marshal said he practiced black magic, tortured, killed and sacrificed children, and also practiced sexual perversion.

Gilles de Rais himself said at the trial that he had killed about 800 children. However, the court considered the proven figure of 150 tortured children, since it did not contradict the testimony of other witnesses who participated in the trial.

In 1440, Gilles de Rais was strangled in front of a huge crowd of townspeople in Nantes. And his atrocities served as a prototype for the creation of a terrible tale of Bluebeard.

8. Pol Pot

The name under which the leader of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge movement went down in history was not real. At birth he was named Salot Sar, and Pol Pot is an abbreviation for "politique potentielle" - "politics of the possible."

This man sought to destroy Cambodian civilization in order to start a new regime and usher in a new era of "harmony, which 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 refusal of money, religion, political parties, free thought, schools and qualified medical care was promoted. And instead of laws, it was necessary to be guided by revolutionary consciousness.

For the sake of this dream, Pol Pot began a mass genocide in his country, "cleansing" it of the Vietnamese, Chinese, as well as those who offered the Khmer Rouge even the slightest resistance.

During the reign of Pol Pot in Cambodia from 1975 to 1978, his policy led to the death of about 2 million people (according to other sources - 3.1 million people), which was 25% of the total population of the country.

In 1998, Pol Pot, ousted by his associates and sentenced to life in house arrest, was found dead. Presumably, 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 killed 2,000 people personally.

Already in the first months of his reign, Amin created death squads that dealt with 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 saltier 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 Ugandans has become one of the lowest in the world. The only expense item on which Amin spared no expense was the army.

However, the terror against his own people and the subsequent expulsion 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 ward at the hospital. King Faisal in Jeddah.

6. Leopold II of Belgium

Having concluded hundreds of treaties with the leaders of local tribes in the Congo basin, the Belgian king Leopold II became the ruler of the Free State of the Congo. Its area was several times larger than the area of ​​Belgium.

Despite the name, the inhabitants of the Free State were considered slaves to King Leopold. The country pursued a cruel colonial policy: a person's hand was cut off for disobedience or poor work.

Between 1885 and 1908, over 500,000 Congolese people died from disease and hunger. 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 riches of the country.

5. Vlad Tepes

The personality of this man served as the basis for such a character as Count Dracula from the novel by Bram Stoker. Even during the lifetime of the ruler of Wallachia, the Turks called him Kazykly (from the Turkish "kazyk" - kol), which gives an idea of ​​his favorite type of execution. And the nickname "Tepes", that is, "Impaler" was first mentioned in Wallachian documents after Vlad's death.

Tepes impaled not only living, but already killed enemies (as happened with the soldiers from the army of the contender for the Wallachian throne Dan), as well as 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 donated funds for the construction of a temple in the town of Tyrgshor.

Vlad the Impaler 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. Indian by birth, he was a member of the Tugi sect, which served the goddess Kali and engaged in ritual murders.

The Tugi robbed and killed their victims, usually by strangulation with a rope or scarf. And Tag Behram, according to him, participated in 931 murders, personally strangled 125 men and saw how another 150 people were strangled.

During his "career" Behram has developed his own style of murder. He sewed a large medallion into his ceremonial belt and learned to throw it so deftly around the victim's neck that the medallion ended up on the Adam's apple. This increased the pressure on the throat and accelerated the suffocation.

Tag Behram was hanged for his many crimes in 1840.

3. Thomas de Torquemada

The name of Spain's first Grand Inquisitor has become a household name for a cruel and uncompromising religious fanatic. And although during the life of Torquemada the chroniclers called him "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 was in charge of the Holy Office, 8,800 people were burned alive in the country, and another 27,000 people were tortured in various ways. The Spanish Inquisition burned even those whom it could not reach personally. This was done "in absentia", a straw effigy was sent to the fire.

The Grand Inquisitor died in 1498 without suffering 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 the age of 9, he was kicked out of the house for having sex 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 started attending a school for orphans, but there, too, he was sexually harassed by a teacher. For the next 6 years, he wandered, committed petty thefts and stolen cars. And when he came of age, he found a pedophile who tortured him as a child, raped him and ripped off his skin while still alive.

For this, Lopez ended up in prison, and when he got out, he settled in Peru, and began to rape and kill girls and women.

After the local crime clans were interested in who was rampaging 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 has killed more than 300 people, and got into the Guinness Book of Records as the most productive serial killer in the world. According to the BBC, he was arrested in 1980 and secretly released in 1998 and transferred to Colombia. What happened to him now is unknown.

1. Adolf Hitler

The list of the most cruel people in human history would be incomplete without a man, whose name has become one of the synonyms for evil in the flesh.

The Fuehrer of Germany from 1934 to 1945 was perhaps the most creative and brutal dictator of all. He was largely responsible for the Holocaust and World War II.

The policy pursued by Adolf Hitler led to the death of more than 54 million people, 26 million of whom were lost to the Soviet Union.

Hitler committed suicide in his bunker on April 30, 1945. It is hard to believe that this man, responsible for the death, torture and mutilation of millions of people, was once a talented artist and part of a bohemian community.