Monsters of History: 22 Bad People Who Did Evil Things
Some terrible people who did some terrible things.
Published 10 months ago in Creepy
As the late MLK once said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." And while we all know that history is written by the victors, here are some people who were neither winners, nor good people, yet somehow managed to get away with committing some pretty heinous crimes.
A historical gallery about bad guys getting away with their crimes wouldn't be complete without a German, a Japanese, or a Russian, now would it? But what about an American mother? Or an Australian news mogile? How about a family of people who single-handedly helped create our current opioid crisis?
Yup, we've got all of the above and nothing nice to say about anyone featured in this gallery.
1
The House of Saud.They destroyed an entire religion from the inside out with their extremist views. Now, almost a quarter of the world is lured into believing the more extreme views that they represent, destroying vernacular adaptations of Islam, that had more room for matriarchy, for gender diversity, and a lot of other concepts that salafism does barely leave any room for, if any.
2
Augustus.He was actually a pretty good emperor. He wasn't evil in the sense that he killed tens of thousands for his enjoyment but if it was advantages for him to kill thousands he wasn't thinking for a second.So once he was on top and everyone did whatever he wanted anyway he became a good leader.His way to the top however was covered in blood. The only reasons he is remembered as a good leader is because he outlived almost everyone who was already adult when he made his way up the roman ladder. If he had died after 10 years or something he would be hated.
4
The Marcos family.This family plundered almost the entire Philippine treasury during Ferdinand Marcos’ two decade rule.They were exiled to Hawaii for a few years, but they were able to go back to the Philippines nevertheless. They (Imelda (the wife of Ferdinand Marcos), Imee (the daughter of FM), and Bongbong (the son) were also able to run for politics again.Despite the records being unequivocally clear that the Marcoses plundered the Philippine government, (Imelda was actually convicted, but was never jailed for “humanitarian reasons”) the Marcoses are now back.Imee is a senator, and Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is now the president of the Philippines.Imelda is also still convicted but has still not, and it looks like will never in her life, taste jail time.Trillions of pesos and tens of thousands of lives lost.
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Mobutu Sese Seko, president of then-Zaire. He died in a luxurious exile in Morocco at age 79.He would have meals flown in from Michelin-rated restaurants in Paris on chartered flights of the supersonic Concorde, because regular airliners weren't fast enough to deliver it fresh enough to his liking. He even spent millions to build a new airport, as none of the existing airports had the 3-kilometer long runway to handle the Concorde.The average citizen under his rule had an annual salary of less than $150, roughly 50 cents a day.A single passenger ticket on the Concorde is about $20,000 in today's dolars.
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Genghis Khan.Was waiting for this. Few people in history, let alone this list, come close to the level of civilisational and cultural death and destruction this man caused. Not only did he get away with it, he died an emperor and spawned a dynasty.He would starve out entire cities because his army was so big, they would enslave or kill everyone and he would marry his daughters off to kings and whatnot then his daughters would kill them and take over the ruled lands to give to Kahns armies. Throughout his reign Kahn and his armies killed over 40 million people and enslaved twice that many.Nearly 8 percent of the men living in the region of the former Mongol empire today carry y-chromosomes that are nearly identical to that of Genghis Kahn.
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Andrew Jackson basically orchestrated a genocide and a lot of folks sing his praises to this day.Andrew Jackson - The Indian Removal Act>The Removal Act paved the way for the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of American Indians from their land into the West in an event widely known as the "Trail of Tears,...>>In the 21st century, scholars have cited the act and subsequent removals as an early example of state sanctioned ethnic cleansing or genocide or settler colonialism
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A lot of these comments aren't people who won, but people who lost and just didn't get the punishment people thought they deserved. But a real evil winner? Try the Dole company and what they did with Hawaii.Pretty much any company found on the tropical fruits aisle or sugar aisle of your local supermarket.
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Shirō Ishii The commander of Unit 731 and other facilities that performed medical experiments on human beings during WW2 in Japan Surgeons would cut open someone without anesthesia, ripping off limbs, or tearing out body parts. They’d sometimes tie a person to a pole outside in the freezing winter and then pour cold water on them to speed up the process of freezing their limbs. Once completely frozen they’d then smash the limbs off with a metal rod. Some of the most sickest, heinous s**t imaginable. The part that angers me the most is that he, along with several others were granted immunity in exchange for information and research. Got away free and never was punished.
17
Kim Jong Il. He lived in the lap of luxury while the vast majority of his country lived in abject poverty. He got steak and lobster every night, expensive alcohol imported from all over the world, had a film collection of 20,000 movies including Western films that were illegal for anyone else to own, sleeping with any woman he wanted, was infallible and worshiped by the very people he was oppressing.That slimeball enjoyed all of the luxuries imported from capitalist nations which were illegal for everybody else in the country.
18
Leopold the 2nd.He is one of the few people who truly make my blood boil with seething rage when I read and think about what he did, and that’s only to start with the fact that they held conferences preying on African countries with permission of absolutely nobody to go and treat human beings like animals.He is one of the few people that I would’ve genuinely wished to dig out of his grave only to spit on him and throw him to some vultures. He will never have been able to suffer enough for the disgusting acts of horror he ordered and committed towards Congo, to this day in 2024 they haven’t recovered.
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Jimmy Saville. One of his victims once escaped him, ran into the lobby and shouted that Saville was attempting to assault her. The people there simply laughed and mocked her.Definitely one if the most sickening travesties and injustices in my opinion. So, so many people for decades knew, they just had to, yet the was allowed to continue being left alone with and abusing countless children because of his celebrity. F**king disgusting that he died happy, beloved, and without facing any repercussions for his abhorrent actions.
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Pol Pot got to die in his sleep in 1998. He deserved far worse.Also important to note that he was interviewed a few times prior to his death. Whenever he was asked about any of his atrocities, he would play dumb about it and skirt the questions. He would say things like the classic denial technique of “oh come on it wasn’t that many people” and “okay but I didn’t kill babies. Just adults. I’m not a monster, you know”. He openly stated he had a clear conscience and had no remorse for the millions he killed all the way through to the end. He was a genuine monster.
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