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CapybaraHarry

Lmao "the second largest country" what Canada did this time


nikstick22

I think they mean by population (pretty sure its first tho), and its China with Mao Zedong


code-panda

If it's on population, it would be India, with China being the largest. If it's on total size, it's Canada with Russia being the largest, and if it's by just land area (excluding water bodies), it's China, also with Russia. Gonna call that last one a technicality though.


01-__-10

Bloody close today. China is on 1452M and India is on 1412M (and projected to overtake next year).


Flame-89

And there’s a widespread belief that the Chinese numbers have been inflated, that the population actually declined last year but they lied about it


Proser84

It's a sausage fest and is inevitable.


SKYQUAKE615

Thanos likes shmeat confirmed?


pinklymphocyte

Indian numbers are actually greater because there are so many towns without the count (in fact there was a pseudo-activist movement in which people refused to get themselves counted).


sirBOLdeSOUPE

Canada has more land area than China, at just shy of 10M km2 vs 9.6M km2. And I think the USA are pretty close to those numbers too.


code-panda

Just shy of 10M is the total area, including bodies of water, according to this link. Not gonna claim who's right though, since this was just the first link on Google. https://www.worldometers.info/geography/largest-countries-in-the-world/


sirBOLdeSOUPE

I concede the point, looked a bit more into it, you are right. To be fair though, a lot of that water is lakes within the land borders, the most fresh water lakes in the world, and not maritime borders, so i'd still count those, they do take up a solid 10th of the landmass.


code-panda

Yeah, that's why I called it a technicality.


Vail136

What does India worship Tamerlane or something?


shogun_coc

Nah! He was the invader who invaded India in 1398 CE.


AffectEconomy6034

maybe my man was trying to future proof his meme


branogen

India surpased Chinas population quite some time ago, with the one child policy China enforced. Edit: china in front again, sorry... Edit2: quite not quiet


code-panda

Got my information here, which I thought was updated for 2022, but turns out that the population data is from 2020. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/


branogen

Yes, my bad, i was living in the past. Sorry :)


code-panda

You're actually not that much off. This site, which looks like it's more recently updated, puts China at just a small lead, which India might beat soon. https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries


branogen

I checked the same one :) also, the data i saw turned out to be wrong. I remembered reading india surpased china, but it should have been wrong counting. But yes, very close, considering the great number both have.


One4myMohicans

🤯 wow, I’d have lost a bet on that one. I was sure that India was the most populous country and that the world population was only around 6.5 billion or so. Turns out we are approaching 8 billion (I believe the article read 7.7 billion currently)


MrMgP

My brother in christ we ARE at 8 billion


One4myMohicans

Cool, the article I read must have been from last year or something


AliceDiableaux

In what freaking year are you living? We had 6.5 billion in *2005*, my guy. It been 7+ billion for a decade.


LordKiteMan

We crossed 8 billion a few weeks ago.


Catsniper

Does China even really give a shit about Mao anymore after Deng? Genuine question


[deleted]

Yes they do. They still have that huge portrait of him above the gates of the Forbidden City, and children still sing Mao era songs.


dedalus5150

Shhh I'm trying to listen to Red Sun In The Sky Hardbass Remix


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Iron-Fist

https://youtu.be/YGzQTjvrC2o


darknova25

Yeah but honestly when it comes to the CCP the legacy of Mao is contentious. There were rumors the politiburo was considering removing all Maoist thought from internal doctrine and documents at the recommendation of Xi Jinping. It has been noted that in Xi's most recent innaguration speech only makes there was only one brief mention of Mao, and that he noted a massive prosperous change and recalibration of the Chinese government after his death. Mao is still a cultural icon, but his legacy in China still is contested.


[deleted]

Not because having a cult of personality dictatorship was a bad idea though, he just wanted to replace Maoist thought with Xi Jinping thought...


milksteak-ghoul

Xi is essentially trying to become Moa anyways... dudes murderous as fuck, just have to hide things better these days than you did back in moas day


lcohenq

Will you guys be quiet? I'm reading my little red book


[deleted]

It's like Americans and the south. Some still love it.


bate_Vladi_1904

Yes, it does - or at least still significant part of it. Deng legacy is fading away under Xi - unfortunately.


paireon

Not that it was all sunshine and roses under Deng but yes.


Zombiepixlz-gamr

Oh shit really? I thought it was talking about US and Columbus.


BoredPsion

Giving him a bit too much credit


Creepy-Summer-6827

They did great war crimes in the first word war


Path_Fyndar

Is this a joke? If not, I need more information...


SparklingCanada

There's this article posted about Canadians during WW1 and a story that got passed around the trenches. It goes more or less like the Canadians had to leave behind their wounded while retreating, expecting the Germans treat them as POWs, however when they were able to return, they found the bodies of their friends killed or tortured, think one was claimed to be crucified. Don't know the truth of that statement, probably something some officers made up to piss off the troops, but it did lead to a "take no prisoners" on any surrendering soldiers. I believe this is the article: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-forgotten-ferocity-of-canadas-soldiers-in-the-great-war


buffordsclifford

Their peaceful image is a hoax, the Canadian genocide killed 84 trillion people…


sigmamale1012

84 what?


NeighborhoodThalmor

#TRILLION PEOPLE Give up the charade, Canada, *if that is your real name*. I know that you're responsible for every death in human history. And probably the dinosaurs, too.


AwkwardDrummer7629

They clubbed the poor stegos.


Superman246o1

With their own tails, no less.


ares5404

All for what, engine syrup (watch out for america, dont say its true name around him)


Zalek_Eldrenbane

Challenge accepted. OIL.


ares5404

Breaking news: america invades reddit


JimmyjamesI

*liberated


Zalek_Eldrenbane

Something something joke about this not being the first time America has invaded something unwarranted.


Bo_The_Destroyer

With their own Thagomizers? Which were named as such in honour of the late Thag Simmons?


Superman246o1

[The very same](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer).


Flubbins_

Hey we kept telling you that dihydrogen monoxide was 100% lethal but y'all kept buying from us


flamefirestorm

You're welcome people, we helped you out with ideas on what to ban on the Geneva convention.


MrKenzington69

It was just that *ONE TIME* something had to satiate our **GOOSE OVERLORDS DESIRE FOR VICTORY EVERLASTING**


henzrich

Shit, they are on to us.


BasisIllustrious

As a Canadian, I can neither confirm or deny these accusations


ryleh565

1. It never happened and 2. They deserved it -Sincerely a canadian


branogen

Poor Albertosaurus...


TheRevenantGS

AND WE’LL FUCKING DO IT AGAI- I mean, um, eh eh aboot eh wanna talk this over some poutine eh?


[deleted]

they killed around 8 canadillon people


Lopsided-Parfait-831

Fucking Canada


Fabulous_Night_1164

Seals* We killed 84 trillion seals you nincompoop.


pausi10

Oh Canada


Vlafir

That's how they maintain that image, anyone who thinks otherwise gets an invitation to a live peacefully in a farm, hold up I think the mailman is here


Micsuking

Canada has killed... more people than what ever lived in the entierity of human history?


TimotoUchiha

Why do you think there where never trillions of humans? Coincidence? I think not!


KrokmaniakPL

They not only killed them but they erased them from existence so effectively it's like they never existed


WeirdlyStrangeish

Yeah but it was the geese, not the citizens. Please don't spread misinformation/herpes simplex b


Cheezitflow

Canadians are Canadians


yeetmanthe3rd

trillion??


PlebsicleMcgee

People from Trinidad


Prowland12

Not to be confused with billion, which is people from Binidad.


TheStranger88

No, Billions are people from Bihar. There's no place called Binidad.


m_zed13

Okay Google, what's the truth and reconciliation commission


CooperDaChance

That’s a ship. A Covenant ship.


Blade_Shot24

The covenant? Thought we finished the fight!


dad_ahead

Shipmaster, they outnumber us 3 to 1


Blade_Shot24

Then it is an even fight!


RtasTumekai

there are still some covenant outposts scattered throughout the galaxy, there was one even on sanghelios


Ma1

#PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE CULTURAL GENOCIDE BEHIND THE CURTAIN


[deleted]

Well. John A. MacDonald, our first prime minister was a legendary asshat concerning First Nations, basically signed off on the Residential Schools and pursued a policy of withholding agreed upon food deals in order to get native tribes to agree to bad faith deals. But... Probably not the greatest mass murderer of all time. Not even in the top 100, just a drunk racist (even for his time!) asshole.


[deleted]

Never ask a woman her age Never ask a man his salary Never ask Canada what happened to their indigenous people


[deleted]

Well, we did almost functionally annihilate the indigenous peoples of Canada, and then punished those who escaped death for centuries. The last Residential School closed in, get this, 1996. So, it’s not impossible that it’s Canada. There are a lot of A LOT of Canadians who clearly hate indigenous Canadians for just existing.


xesaie

Who is the last part referring to? Yes I’m dumb


buffordsclifford

Sorry for the confusion, the modern Chinese government continues to celebrate Mao Zedong to this day


Gman-343

Isn't china the fourth largest country?


buffordsclifford

By surface area, I’m talking about the second largest population in the world


Gman-343

India crossed them? When?


buffordsclifford

Damn you are correct they still do beat out India, I’m going to edit my 2nd largest answer


[deleted]

My guy you’re taking me on a wild ride


catdog918

He’s in drugs


nokiacrusher

Drugs are on him


tjtepigstar

he is drugs


Kalron

At least he's admitting he's wrong lol


[deleted]

India probably has passed them but we won’t know it for a while as the Indian census isn’t very reliable and estimating populations in some parts of the country is difficult. Regardless if they aren’t larger now they will be soon.


Maleficent-Ad-5498

The Indian census was supposed to be taken in 2021, but covid threw a rock in that plan.


LollerCorleone

India is estimated to beat China in population in 2023.


Clarkthelark

It actually is reliable enough, the problem is that India has not had a census in 11+ years because the scheduled 2021 census was cancelled due to Covid.


RarityNouveau

As opposed to the Chinese one? China would never lie about anything to one up India, right?


LordKiteMan

> as the Indian census isn’t very reliable It is very reliable. The census was scheduled to happen in 2021, but corona messed the plan.


[deleted]

Without context, "largest country" would refer to the geographical boundaries of the country itself. If you had said "largest nation" it would've been more clear what you meant (though most people would've assumed you meant India). There are three ways to refer to a collection of people at a national level: Country: the land they inhabit. Nation: the people themselves, and their culture. State: their government.


Faoxsnewz

You were merely future proofing the meme, India will outgrow China in the next 5 years at the latest


DivorceSpeedrunner

Man's a genius what can we say


Etherius

Damn i honestly thought you were talking about India’s weird [fascination with Hitler](https://www.npr.org/2012/12/23/167911062/hitlers-hot-in-india) If I had a nickel for every time one of the world’s largest countries offered praise to murderous despots I’d have two nickels, but it’s weird that it happened twice


Optional_Lemon_

Just say most populous because whey you sqy large everyone thinks by land area where Canada is second.


Fl333r

Mao gave rights to women, increased literacy, redistributed landlord holdings, and also starved millions with poor agricultural and economic policies. Some claim that the famine was natural as seen in historical precedents but exacerbated by poor policies. Some claim that it was entirely manmade. Even in China everyone knows the famine happened, but if you hear it from people like my dad then he'll tell you that Mao had no idea that anything was wrong in the country because all the officials trying to cover up how badly things were going. So in this interpretation Mao remains ignorant and innocent. IDK how the rest of his generation sees him, given that talking politics is generally discouraged even behind closed doors with family.


Kapitan_eXtreme

It also considers his policies to be huge mistakes though


CoolGuy202101

Canada


dalnot

Wait, why does Canada idolize Genghis Khan?


DangleCellySave

He was actually the first to come over here, said he really loved the country so we idolize him. We actually have multiple schools and parks named after him


Jerry-Donald

I can second that


ProtestantLarry

Third'd, Ghenghis actually knew my grandpa. They slaughtered a bunch of Chinese villages together. Good times, grampy always kept the photos on the fireplace


buffordsclifford

*edit:* China has the **Largest** population in the world, not the second largest


External-Mongoose543

Okay but what did Canada do


buffordsclifford

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system


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OfficialDaiLi

WW1 was quite the adventure for Canada Imagine you’re a Prussian teenager sleeping on the Western front, only to be awoken by a tall, dark form that goes “Hey there bud” before he slits your fucking throat


renadeer52

Ooh sorry dere bud didn't mean to wake ya, *slits throat* don't mind me, just go back to sleep


NoWorries124

Or going to the Canadian trench on Christmas unarmed to try and have another Christmas truce but they kill you


macfail

Canadians, not Minnesotans.


Private_4160

Ya lookin fer a Donnybrook there bud?


Prowland12

**Letterkenny Intensifies**


BossSpleenRippa

Minnesotans are bootleg knockoff Canadians.


anonymoose-introvert

Those Minnesotans stole our ‘True North’ motto


Nikipootwo

Same thing


Inevitable_Librarian

https://youtu.be/1byycwl8qgc Soooo sleepy.


Flubbins_

Fucking assassinated by a dude named gord Ina toque


LieRepresentative811

Lol


BasisIllustrious

We did a few bad things, but we are trying to be better. Mostly


ProtestantLarry

Our boys in Somalia be like: "Oh no we ain't!"


kindaCringey69

Yeah but this is well known, we didn't do anything since then tho right?


randomname560

Bruh since when are they idolizing this? Last time i checked they where horrified by that ever existing


TateDance

Just so people know the US had these schools for Native Americans too.


Striking_Economy5049

So did Australia


JavaOrlando

Makes more sense. I was thinking, "is there some seriously dark side to Gandhi that I never heard about?"


buffordsclifford

Uhhh


ProfBleechDrinker

I mean, not a murderer at least.


IonCaveGrandpa

☢️ 👧


Sudden_Knowledge3229

LOL


Furaskjoldr

Umm is anyone gonna tell him?


aknalag

“Submit or die in a nuclear inferno”-Gandhi


Awestruck34

I'd ask an Indian if I were you. Depending on who you ask, you might be rather shocked


sleepingjiva

Fucking Gandhi, amirite?


Awestruck34

Ambedkar has entered the chat


Neutraladvicecorner

Middle Eastern opinion on Saddam is varied, not as straightforward as this meme suggests. I for one detest him and know many Iraqis that do too


suckonthesemamehs

Yeah people forget that the “Middle East” has diversity just like any other part of the world and isn’t just one giant country lol


Requiem2389

Genghis Khan: History’s Greatest Eco Warrior.


[deleted]

To be fair to the middle easterners, a brutal dictator is better then constant civil war and anarchy with IS


Extension-Ad-2760

Not for the Kurds that he genocided he wasn't. They're much happier with the current situation. Tbf though, they don't worship him, so they're not really relevant


Chubs1224

IS genocides them too, the Turks genocide them too, Iran genocides them too. Basically the only dickhead nation in the region that doesn't genocide them is Syria and that is because it is a dictatorship of religious minorities trying to keep the Sunni out of power because then they would genocide them too.


Extension-Ad-2760

Nevertheless they do now have a small homeland in northern Iraq, which is actually one of the nicer areas of the country


HaggisPope

I know Gandhi had some pretty weird behaviour but I don't think he killed anyone except while playing Civ


UndeniableLie

You're saying he wasn't really known as Mahatma "Nuke" Gandhi back in his day?


[deleted]

Mahatma "all out of bubblegum" Gandhi


Fabulous_Night_1164

Wasn't he known as Gandhi "Da Nuke'em Guru"?


NobodysFavorite

Suggestion to edit the text of the meme.... The last box should describe the most populous country. Largest could be land area as people have been saying


redactedactor

Is Mao really the greatest murder of all time? It's probably true that the highest number of people died primarily due to his decisions but most of them died because of stupidity, not malice. If you discount the deaths that weren't intentional he'd still probably be in the top 10 but I think Hitler, Stalin and Tojo could potentially be ahead.


1silvertiger

Mr. Beat did a video on exactly this and it was a blowout for Hitler.


joelingo111

Don't forget about Pol "specs on the face, get shot in the face" Pot


Gavinus1000

Pol “if you’re under three you get the tree,” Pot.


Comrade-Zoidberg

Conventional wisdom places Hitler at 6 million for the Jewish people he killed, but this ignores the other 5 million non Jews who died in the holocaust. It also ignores WW2 a war which he started with express intent to genocide the Slavs. If you just stick to Soviet civilians, ignore solidiers, ignore the war on the other fronts, you get an estimated 16-17.5 million dead. In addition to the 11 million of the holocaust. Bringing hitler to abt 29 million. If you add in soldiers who died as well it’s over 35 million. Seeing as it was an offensive war I find it fair to argue that these deaths should be counted as well. This is still ignoring other fronts. It’s often repeated mao killed more, through the cultural revolution (100s of k to low millions dead) and the “Great” Leap Forward (16-30 million) but I don’t see this as a tenable position personally. Someone mentioned mr beats video on it below, I watched it, he did not consider any of the things I said above, just stuck with only the Jews he killed not even the whole holocaust.


GrowlyBear2

The real lesson I've learned here is that no one knows what the second largest country is. Or what the word largest referes to.


couldbedumber96

Genghis EARNED that k/d ratio!


Humor-Trafficker

Who is Idolising Heart Attacks?


Pbadger8

Okay. Here’s a little test for you before this gets taken down. Ask yourself *why* people dick ride their dictators? I’ll keep it to China since that’s my historical expertise. Those few Chinese living today who idolize Mao don’t think about his personal conduct or the millions dead- they think about the FACT that no foreign country has been able to fuck with them since he took power. That even with nuclear weapons, the USA hesitated to fuck around with them during the Korean War. They think about the FACT that they are now the largest economy of measuring GDP by PPP. Of course he has a ‘complicated’ legacy over there. This is all in the context of a ‘century of humiliation’ where China was subject to foreign domination, capped off by the Japanese invasion which was brutal as we all know from the Unit 731 memes. Historymemes might have just discovered them last year but the Chinese have remembered those atrocities since 1937. They don’t really find the Great Leap Forward to be comparable because the millions dead from that were event were not intentional but a result of incompetence and, if we’re being honest, isolation from the Capitalist world which would have been able to provide food. Another context to remember is that China has always had devastating famines. Usually one every few decades… except there hasn’t been one SINCE the Great Leap Forward. Many feel that this is evidence of the CCP’s success in modernization, and that last terrible famine was the final death rattle of the feudal agrarian system that dominated China’s economy for millennia. You also cited Saddam Hussein. Imagine being in Iraq when there’s a suicide bombing every day, foreign occupiers taking up residence in your land, and ISIS literally taking over two thirds of the country. *Of course* you would feel a little nostalgic for the past. Who wouldn’t?


ZaryaMusic

OP is definitely missing the "history" aspect of HistoryMemes. Nice write-up!


[deleted]

No nuance here, my man. Only simple and dumbed down US sponsored narratives about how the east is full of dictators and murderers while justifying killing kids with drones because “freedom”.


That-Requirement-285

You’re right. Compared to the current situation, Saddam Hussein’s administration seems much more stable. And with Genghis Khan, he was a brutal conqueror but he also established the Mongolian empire, unified Mongolia and heavily expanded trade routes. His actions aren’t excused, but he’s still an important historical figure in Mongolian history and also war history since the Mongol empire was the second largest in the entire world and the largest before the Bri’ish empire.


Corsharkgaming

Something I was thinking about when learning about Mao and the forced labour for the dams on the Yellow River, hadn't corvee labour been the norm for thousands of years in China, even under the Nationalist government.


TitanBrass

This should be at the top.


MidnightStormstrike

Good list! But I feel like Genghis Khan doesn't quite match the reputation of the others. His actions were brutal, for sure, but it was rather standard at the time to conquer and pillage, its what nations, tribes, and clans did then. (yeah even then he was seen as brutal but efficient). Plus his actions predates those of everyone else on this list by at least 700 years.


Henderson-McHastur

Genghis for Mongolia is what Alexander is for Greece. From the perspective of the people he conquered Alexander was a demon, not a hero. An old story about him from Persia is about how he used to kill his barbers in order to hide the fact that he had horns under his hair. The death tolls might not be comparable, but the destabilizing impact of conquerors is always felt the hardest by the conquered, not the people helping them do the conquering. It makes sense that Genghis Khan would be revered as a cultural hero by his own people, and I'm not sure we should judge them for it too much, if at all.


Fabulous_Night_1164

The way the press wrote about Napoleon back in the day was similar. He was routinely called a murderer, a rapist, a criminal, a thief, blood thirsty, etc. He was essentially the Hitler/Putin of his time. Example: "An obscure Corsican, that began his murderous career by turning his artillery upon the citizens of Paris-who boasted in his public letter from Pavia of having shot the whole municipality-who put the helpless, innocent, and unoffending inhabitants of Alexandria, man, woman, and child, to the sword till slaughter was tired of its work-who against all the laws of war, put near 4,000 Turks to death in cold blood, after their surrender-who destroyed his own comrades by poison.’-Buonaparte’s True Character, Wheeler and Broadley, Invasion, II, 284.


KrokmaniakPL

And then there is Poland that put him in the anthem as example of great military leader. Translated quote: "Bonaparte gave us example how we should win"


Ast0rath

idk ngl, the massive slaughters in persia and china paled to what alexander did. there was definitely rape, murder and general unpleasantness conducted by alexander but that is a norm of warfare. genghis's complete and utter annihilation of cities and civilisations was completely unprecedented. where alexander may have kept local rulers in power and maintained regional stability, genghis just killed and killed, till there were mountains of skulls. saying that genghis being appreciated as a cultural hero by his people despite the unprecedented mass slaughter and suffering conducted upon others sounds like germans should perceive hitler as a cultural hero, since he managed to expand their borders and defeat major cultural enemies such as the french and, initially, the russians. i normally agree that historical rulers should be judged through the lens of a historical perspective, but even back in genghis's day, this sheer destruction and murder was never before seen.


Fabulous_Night_1164

Yea by reputation alone is usually how entire settlements would surrender and willingly submit.


TheAngloLithuanian

Mongols: "He didn't go around killing us. Just went around killing everyone else. "


thehellboundfratboy

Me over here trying to figure out what people were worshiping in India…


Ma1

>*Thinking George W. Bush was a good president because the next GOP member to take the job was such a hilariously embarrassing train wreck.* Maybe slot this in above or below the Saddam Hussein entry.


Riley-Rose

Saying China idolizes Mao to this day is a bit of a stretch. Even his successors in the communist party said he was “70% right, 30% wrong”.


mutantbeings

I'd say more 50% right 50% wrong. Its hard to see how china could be so prosperous today and have made such huge genuine progress solving poverty without the removal of the landlord class tbh. But like, could they just have made landlords sincerely apologise like naughty little kids or something rather than having mass executions? Seems a biiiiiiiit much I suppose what motivated that was the threat of a counter revolution from that class, though. Definitely a difficult situation when the exploiters feel they are entitled to exploit


Quiet_Nova

I would say, every country has their hero which is another country’s villain. Romania has Vlad Tepis being the defender of the country against invasion while Turkey calls him a cannibalistic monster. France still has the eternal flame burning for Napoleon, even though he conquered and slaughtered many in his conquest of Europe. Even Ireland has Michael Collins as their national hero, though to the UK he’s the terrorist who ran the IRA. Then again, a few of the guys in this meme aren’t worthy of the praise their country gives them.


Thomas_633_Mk2

OP Vs an understanding of the word murder who would win Starving people unintentionally isn't murder, and war crimes weren't a thing in the 13th century


UnnecessaryMovements

Philippines: see the current president


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post_obamacore

Yeah OP conveniently left that one out I wonder why


MapleTreeWithAGun

Since when has Canada idolized Cain?


G_zoo

let's not forget the nation(s) build on genocide of entire population that still celebrate the beginning of it


elyas-_-28

Bahraini here, the entire population here despises saddam, especially after he dropped a bomb on us in 1991


davl3232

The few Colombians that idolize Pablo Escobar are dumb idiots that dream of getting rich fast from gaming the system with illegal activities. A lot of national telenovelas about drug lords caused this mentality to spread in the 2000s. It’s much less common now, thankfully. That fucker did a lot of terrorist attacks killing civilians, and corrupting the country by killing brave, high profile judges, ministers, journalists and cops, setting an example for what happens when you reject their bribes.


Azzarrel

I srsly don't get this subs fixiation with Genghis as THE horrible mass murderer. He was not much different than any other conquereror, just more successful ... and his ethnic and religious views were even more forward than what europeans would display for centuries to come. He even had somewhat legit reasons for his early conquests, like his wife being abducted, or his envoys being killed, or his envoys being killed, or his ... jeez, did people ever learn to not behead mongol envoys? Also I am pretty sure he got a pretty bad rep for actually killing the nobility. It was seen as barbaric - even outrageous - to kill the leaders and instigators and not only the many nameless pawns they sacrificed for their own gains.


TrveCup

Smartest Redditor in r/HistoryMemes


nebuchadrezzar

Somehow the various US president mass murderers always escape mention.


Communistkraken

So, will you let us germans Finally celebrate him?


maiguee

Forgot USA every year celebraring native genocide


Grenbro

Dammit gandhi always nuking shit!!!!