The most bloodthirsty leaders of History.
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| The most bloodthirsty leaders of History. |
When you think dictators particularly known for its bordering madness and cruelty, inhumane behavior, come to mind immediately the names of despotic leaders of the twentieth century, like Hitler, Mussolini or Stalin, among others; However, evil and madness are not assets of the twentieth century: all ages and all corners have had their bloodthirsty exponents of powerful, as illustrated by this short list.
Ranavalona I: Madagascar took the throne in 1828 after killing all the descendants of her husband, to become the sole heir. His first decision was to break the signed international treaties with foreign powers on the island and expel foreigners. He mobilized the army to persecute Christians, running to all who carry a Bible or profess in public, and implemented unprecedented torture techniques. The island fell into such isolation that his son, Radama II, came to ask Napoleon to invade, but Madagascar only reopened to the world when the queen died.
Ivan IV of Russia known as Ivan the Terrible, after the death of one of his seven wives, in 1560, became an extremely authoritarian and deranged czar. At the betrayal of the commander of the Western Army, Prince Kurbsky, he formed a formidable bodyguard and state police, military and law enforcement purposes by which he executed clergy and Russian feudal families. He punished with the death penalty to a prince accused of participating in a homosexual orgy, and years later attacked the city of Novgorod torturing, beheading and impaling thousands of its inhabitants.
Vlad Dracula: Prince of Wallachia between 1456 and 1462, went down in history for his obsession with impalement, torture and execution techniques that employ ordered against around 100,000 people. enemy of the theft, lies and adultery is declared, and how was the highest-ranking traitor was harder punishment. By some accounts, it would have been based writer Bram Stoker to create his famous character, Count Dracula.
Leopold II of Belgium in charge of the production of rubber in the Belgian colony of Congo, Leopoldo enslaved the local indigenous population; to increase production, the Belgian soldiers charged based on the quantities of rubber collected, so the methods of pressure on workers became increasingly brutal. During the years of Leopoldo they underwent, tortured and killed ten million native of Congo.
Attila: the King of the Huns, arrogant and capricious fearsome warlord, defined as "the rod of God's wrath", he mastered from Central Europe to the Black Sea and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea; feared enemy of the Roman Empire, it was said of him that wherever he went no grass grew, referring to the panic generated by the devastating passage of his army.
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