Something Good About Every Evil Person

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Resumo

TLDRThe video delves into the historical narrative of notorious figures deemed wholly evil, such as Stalin, Osama bin Laden, and Hitler, while exploring the complexity of their legacies by identifying positive contributions they made during their lives. It discusses Stalin's industrial achievements, Osama's climate activism, and other actions that, despite their larger context of horror and atrocity, reveal a duality in human nature. The creator emphasizes that no individual is entirely good or evil, urging viewers to reflect on their own potential for both, and advocating for support to continue producing educational content.

Conclusões

  • 🕵️‍♂️ Evil figures may have complex legacies.
  • ⚖️ No one is purely good or evil.
  • 📚 Stalin industrialized the USSR despite brutal regime.
  • 🌍 Osama bin Laden advocated for climate action.
  • 🏛️ Hitler's policies included progressive animal rights.
  • 💔 Even tyrants had moments of compassion.
  • 📜 Each case illustrates human capacity for both good and bad.
  • 🤝 Acknowledging complexity can foster understanding.
  • 🔍 Reflect on how history teaches us about ourselves.
  • 🪙 Support for creators allows deeper exploration of controversial topics.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The video discusses the duality of human nature, questioning if there are truly wicked individuals in history and what, if any, good they may have done. It explores the notion that even the most notorious figures may have had positive aspects to their lives or legacies, even if their overall actions were horrific.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Starting with Joseph Stalin, it's mentioned that despite his brutal regime, he transformed the Soviet Union into an industrial superpower, improving literacy and life expectancy. He is credited with leading the Soviet Union to victory in World War II, despite the significant human cost under his leadership.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Next, Osama bin Laden is examined, showing the surprising revelation that he promoted efforts to combat climate change. He was also a fan of video games and pop culture, highlighting an odd juxtaposition of his personal interests against his terrorist actions.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The segment on Kim Jong-il presents his severe human rights abuses, yet acknowledges his attempts at economic reforms influenced by China, and his cooperation with South Korea, illustrating a complex character beneath his brutality.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Jim Jones is discussed as a figure who, while responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, showed early commitment to civil rights and racial integration, providing a glimpse of positive intentions overshadowed by his tragic leadership.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Genghis Khan's narrative reveals that he allowed diverse faiths in his empire and established effective communication networks, despite being responsible for mass atrocities, emphasizing the paradoxical nature of his rule.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Mao Zedong's leadership is portrayed as simultaneously disastrous due to the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, while also initiating major social reforms benefiting women's rights and peasant conditions, showing that change can have multiple facets.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Henry Kissinger's controversial actions in foreign policy are contrasted with his undeniable role in opening relations with China, leading to major improvements for many, despite the legacy of violence associated with his strategies.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:47:34

    Lastly, the video concludes with Adolf Hitler, whose committed stance on animal rights starkly contrasts his genocidal policies, and Jeffrey Epstein, whose philanthropic efforts are overshadowed by his criminal acts, summarizing the complexity of human morality.

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Vídeo de perguntas e respostas

  • What is the main topic of the video?

    The video discusses historical figures considered evil and examines if they did any good.

  • Does the video excuse the actions of these evil figures?

    No, it acknowledges their crimes but highlights their complexities.

  • Who are some of the figures discussed in the video?

    Figures discussed include Stalin, Osama bin Laden, Kim Jong-il, and Adolf Hitler.

  • What kind of good actions are mentioned about these figures?

    The video cites various positive contributions, like Stalin's industrialization efforts and Osama's climate activism.

  • What message does the video convey about human nature?

    It suggests that no one is perfectly good or evil, and everyone has complexities.

  • Is there a focus on any particular historical period?

    The video mostly focuses on the 20th century and earlier.

  • What tone does the video take when discussing these figures?

    The tone is analytical, combining humor and serious commentary.

  • How does the video address the audience's potential feelings?

    It encourages viewers to reflect on their capacity for both good and evil.

  • What is the video creator's hope for the audience?

    The hope is for viewers to recognize the complexities of human morality.

  • Where can viewers support the video creator?

    Viewers can support the creator through Patreon or YouTube.

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    in my previous video about great people
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    who did some not so great things we
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    concluded that no one can be perfectly
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    good and even the greatest Among Us have
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    done some pretty awful stuff this
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    naturally made me curious about the
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    opposite question who are the bad people
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    in history and what good if any did they
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    do is it even possible to find something
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    positive about those who are widely
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    considered to be the worst people
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    Humanity has to offer or is there such
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    thing as a perfectly EV Vil person and I
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    don't just mean a nice side effect of
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    something they did like how some people
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    jokingly say that genghiskhan reduced
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    global warming because of how many
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    people he killed no I'm looking for
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    actions they did that were actually good
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    in it of itself but even if we do find
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    something good in these notoriously evil
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    people this doesn't at all excuse the
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    fact that they're still terrible human
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    beings and nothing nicet about them will
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    ever diminish the awfulness of their
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    actions just as how you can criticize
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    great figures in history without
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    dismissing their achievements you can
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    also learn something positive about
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    terrible people without excusing their
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    evil Deeds so with that said join me as
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    we attempt to find something good about
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    every evil person
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    [Music]
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    we'll start off strong with the Man of
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    Steel Joseph Stalin who ruled the Soviet
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    Union for nearly 30 years up until his
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    death in
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    1953 Stalin's regime was responsible for
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    deporting millions of its own citizens
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    to labor camps executing hundreds of
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    thousands of his perceived enemies
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    ordering unwarranted detention and
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    torture of suspected civilians and
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    exacerbating famines that killed
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    millions of his own people it is
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    therefore no surprise that Stalin is
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    widely considered to be one of history's
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    most brutal tyrants with few leaders in
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    the 20th century outmatching the scale
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    of his atrocities but despite all his
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    faults Stalin managed to transform a
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    poor rural backwards nation into an
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    industrialized superpower second only to
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    that of the United States literacy rates
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    increased from 25% before the Soviet
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    Union to 94% halfway through Stalin's
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    Reign and life expectancy by the time he
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    died was more than double what it was
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    pre-revolution but perhaps Stalin's
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    greatest accomplishment that many
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    Russians today still admire him for was
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    his victory over the Nazis in the Great
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    Patriotic War more commonly known to us
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    in the West West as World War II putting
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    aside the slightly inconvenient bit
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    about him purging his own Army right
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    before the war and his less and optimal
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    military decisions that led to millions
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    of Soviets needlessly dying Stalin's
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    regime still deserves praise for bearing
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    most of the burden in the second world
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    war under his leadership 27 million
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    Soviets sacrificed their lives fighting
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    bravely against the Nazis and it's
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    basically the reason why this video is
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    in
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    English n Dana Stalin after defeating
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    Hitler Stalin then oversaw the beginning
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    of a cold war between the Soviet Union
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    and the United States that span much of
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    the 20th century until the ussr's
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    downfall in
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    1991 a popular phrase expressed by many
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    Americans at the time was that the end
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    of History had arrived and the United
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    States won beating Nazi Germany and then
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    the Soviet Union that America would
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    enter the 21st century without any more
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    enemies and create a world full of
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    wonderful liberal democracies Guided by
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    the only superpower left standing but
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    this American Dream would come crashing
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    down to reality just 1 year 9 months and
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    11 days into the New Millennium thanks
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    to a man by the name of Osama bin Laden
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    The Mastermind behind the horrific
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    attacks that killed nearly 3,000
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    American citizens instantly becoming the
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    Deadliest Terrorist event in US history
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    after 9911 Osama started playing
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    hideand-seek with the American
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    government and it took 10 years before
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    he was finally tracked down and killed
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    in his bunker in Pakistan thanks Obama
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    and here is where we can maybe find
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    something good about Osama since his
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    personal hard drive was seized after the
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    raid and Declassified after going
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    through his files we were able to
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    discover that he had written letters
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    calling for Americans to save Humanity
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    by helping to fight climate change for
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    the 10th anniversary of 9/11 he
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    apparently asked his team to launch a
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    media campaign that included an urgent
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    plea for the world to reduce its
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    greenhouse gas emissions it's nice to
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    learn that between every terrorist
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    attack he planned he always made sure to
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    voice his concern about the planet
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    heating up as well there were some other
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    interesting things discovered on his
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    hard drive too from what we can tell
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    Osama was an epic gamer enjoying titles
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    like Counter Strike Mario and Animal
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    Crossing he also watched narudo and
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    Dragon Balls as well as having this
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    video SA which he called cats 4 with the
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    Shrek theme song as its
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    background Bin Laden forever changed the
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    world for the worst because of his
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    terrorism and is the reason why to this
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    day a miserable airport worker will
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    scream at you for using too many bins or
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    harass you for having a bottle of
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    shampoo with more than 3 o so the next
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    time the TSA is searching your balls for
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    a hidden bomb remember to say thanks
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    Osama but he's also the reason why the
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    American government went into full panic
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    mode after 9/11 and invaded a country
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    that had nothing to do with the attacks
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    because of the new axis of Evil
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    consisting of Iran Iraq and North Korea
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    which leads us to our next villain Kim
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    Jong ill not to be confused with his
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    spoiled son and current leader Kim
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    Jong-un or his father who created North
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    Korea Kim ILS while obviously subjective
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    it's reasonable to argue that out of the
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    three leaders in North Korea's history
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    Kim Jong ill was probably the worst he
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    somehow had both Stalin's disdain for
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    human suffering as well as osama's
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    coldblooded ruthlessness toward innocent
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    civilians like Stalin he completely
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    neglected millions of his own citizens
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    who were starving to death stubbornly
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    insisting that North Korea's glorious ju
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    or self-reliance ideology would be able
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    to feed everyone without help from other
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    nations it wasn't until the country
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    turned into hell on Earth and people
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    resorting to eating grass bark and rats
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    to survive when the government finally
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    admitted to the world that they did
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    indeed have food shortages and begged
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    for the much needed Aid and like Osama
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    he was also responsible for the horrific
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    flight 858 terrorist attack where a bomb
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    was planted in a South Korean commercial
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    airplane that killed all 100 passengers
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    on board board additionally thousands of
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    South Koreans as well as dozens of
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    Japanese citizens have been kidnapped
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    over the decades under Kim Jong 's
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    orders despite all these crimes against
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    humanity here are some good things Kim
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    Jong ill did throughout his life for one
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    whether it was out of sheer necessity or
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    a genuine interest to improve the
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    conditions of his people he began to
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    allow some economic reforms following
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    China's model of opening up special
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    economic zones in the country where a
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    little bit of good old capitalism can
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    function there he was also interested in
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    finally making amends with South Korea
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    and cooperated with their so-called
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    Sunshine policy where both States would
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    strengthen communication with each other
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    and work together on several business
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    ventures to help the north stagnant
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    economy still Kim Jong 's brutality
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    towards his own people and his
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    willingness to commit terrorism abroad
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    makes him the worst leader in North
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    Korea's history but surprisingly he's
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    not the first pseudo socialist leader
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    with a cult of personality almost as
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    unhinge as Taylor Swifts believe it or
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    not that would be an American Pastor by
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    the name of Jim Jones architect of the
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    infamous Jonestown Massacre what started
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    off as just one of many hippie groups
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    that were popular in the' 60s took
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    things for the worse when Jones decided
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    to relocate his nearly 1,000 followers
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    to any communist nation that would take
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    them in China and the Soviet Union
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    rejected his request but Guyana which
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    had recent recently formed a leftwing
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    government was sympathetic to his cause
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    and allowed his cult to move in upon
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    arrival he declared this new commune to
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    be called jonest toown a paradise on
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    Earth which by the way if anyone ever
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    declares a place to be a paradise please
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    just run away but one positive aspect
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    about Mr Jones was his genuine and
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    Unapologetic support for racial
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    minorities perhaps a result of either
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    his socialist ideology or religious
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    beliefs regardless of the reason Jones
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    was at the Forefront of Indiana Civil
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    Rights Movement helping to racially
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    integrate churches restaurants the
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    police and hospitals throughout the
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    state when sasas were painted on the
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    homes of two black families the pastor
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    comforted them and implored for other
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    households to not move away he helped
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    set up sting operations to catch
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    businesses who refuse to serve Black
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    customers and directly confronted
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    neo-nazis trying to stop him it was for
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    this reason why the man was able to
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    attract such a large following in the
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    first place with much of his cult
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    consisting of racial minorities who
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    admired Jones for his truly Brave
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    actions against Injustice but fast
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    forward back to the South American
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    commune where his cult was toiling away
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    and starving for the past year by this
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    point father as Jones was called had
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    implemented North Korea system of 8
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    hours work followed by 8 hours of study
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    which was basically just him ranting to
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    everyone about the evils of America and
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    reading political commentary from
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    communist Nations hunger and disease
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    were were widespread since a land where
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    the commune was established wasn't
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    fertile enough to grow a sufficient
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    amount of food and a lack of trained
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    medical staff meant that no one was able
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    to properly treat the sick as a result
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    the town quickly became a glorified
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    concentration camp in the middle of
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    nowhere and had to entirely rely on the
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    Social Security checks elderly members
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    were receiving in order to buy enough
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    rice beans and some vegetables to keep
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    everyone alive of course that didn't
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    stop father Jones from stealing some of
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    that sweet wealth money from his brother
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    Uncle Sam to keep his personal fridge
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    stock with meat eggs fruit and even his
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    favorite sodas over the course of a year
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    living in Paradise Jones was getting
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    increasingly paranoid that the American
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    government was going to come for him any
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    day now and that fear reached its peak
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    when a group consisting of a US
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    Congressman reporters and relatives of
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    cult members came to the compound and
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    found a weird but seemingly harmless
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    hippie Camp as they headed back to
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    America around a dozen members defected
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    and asked the team to take them back
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    home Jones reluctantly let them go but
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    secretly ordered armed loyalists to
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    follow and kill the entire group before
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    they left Guyana shooting at them as
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    they were boarding their planes five
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    people were killed including the
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    congressman but the rest were able to
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    escape into the jungle and were
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    eventually rescued by the local
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    government immediately after ordering
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    the attack Jones knew his political
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    project was now officially over and
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    ordered his followers to commit what he
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    called
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    revolutionary by drinking Kool-Aid laced
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    with cyanide people were breaking down
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    and crying as they realized what they
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    were now instructed to do and the campu
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    guards killed anyone who dared to refuse
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    nearly a thousand people in Jonestown
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    were not just persuaded to end their own
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    lives but also their children's and when
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    Outsiders arrived at the deadly scene
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    the people's Paradise now littered with
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    countless dead bodies look like the
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    aftermath of a Mongol invasion because
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    no one could have left a scene more
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    gruesome than Genghis Khan the
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    quintessential archetype of a barbaric
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    Warlord the Mongol leader is best known
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    for rapidly creating the largest
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    contiguous Empire in human history
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    through deadly conquests massacres and
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    pillaging as mentioned at the start of
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    this video genas Khan's indiscriminate
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    annihilation of any population who
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    resisted meant that an estimated 10% of
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    the entire world's population was killed
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    one in 10 people died under the Mongols
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    to put it in perspective 3% of the
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    world's population died in the second
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    world war which means we would need
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    three World War II's back to back to
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    back to even come close to the scale of
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    human life loss that genas Khan brought
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    onto this Earth You may wonder how
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    exactly did he conquer so much in such a
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    short time well ancient terrorism
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    basically the Mongols much preferred to
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    have their enemies unconditionally
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    surrender and become vassal States for
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    the Empire so they could receive regular
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    tributes instead of just pillaging them
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    for a one-time Bounty what can I say bro
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    was on that passive income grind the
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    Mongol ruler invented biological warfare
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    by taking corpses infected with the
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    black plague and catapulting them into
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    cities Under Siege his military strategy
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    was so ruthless that most places simply
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    chose to surrender and if a single
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    person tried to resist genas Khan's
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    horde would mass murder every male and
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    Enslaved the women for well alled genis
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    explained it himself from Poland to
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    Korea now Myan dud from New York Jaan
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    but as with any notorious person in
  • 00:14:12
    history genghiskhan wasn't without his
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    positives for one the Mongols were
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    revolutionary when it came to tolerating
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    different faiths and cultures in their
  • 00:14:21
    domain up until that point pretty much
  • 00:14:24
    every Empire would force conquered
  • 00:14:26
    populations to convert to their religion
  • 00:14:28
    or be killed genis also introduced
  • 00:14:31
    systems of meritocracy within his
  • 00:14:33
    government and Military established a
  • 00:14:35
    postal Network across continents which
  • 00:14:37
    spread knowledge around the world and
  • 00:14:39
    created an unprecedented piece
  • 00:14:41
    throughout EUR Asia now known as the Pax
  • 00:14:44
    mongolica but 40 to 80 million people
  • 00:14:47
    paid the price for all this to happen a
  • 00:14:49
    number so large that it would take
  • 00:14:51
    another 700 years before someone else
  • 00:14:54
    came close to causing this much death
  • 00:14:56
    and that someone would be none other
  • 00:14:59
    than Mau dong communist revolutionary
  • 00:15:01
    and founder of modern-day China now it
  • 00:15:04
    would be wrong to believe that the
  • 00:15:06
    deaths ma caused were in any way
  • 00:15:08
    comparable to genas Khan since Mao's
  • 00:15:11
    case was mostly due to his failed
  • 00:15:12
    policies paranoia and gross negligence
  • 00:15:16
    but in genus's case it was just
  • 00:15:18
    coldblooded murder still that doesn't
  • 00:15:21
    excuse the inhumane lack of concern Mao
  • 00:15:23
    had for the people he ruled and letting
  • 00:15:25
    tens of millions of them die because of
  • 00:15:28
    a stubborn commit to uphold an ideology
  • 00:15:31
    is still pretty evil ma tenure as leader
  • 00:15:34
    of China started off with great promise
  • 00:15:37
    but quickly turned into a disaster when
  • 00:15:39
    he implemented his Infamous Great Leap
  • 00:15:41
    Forward campaign forcing millions of
  • 00:15:43
    farmers to stop growing food so they can
  • 00:15:45
    make steel in the hopes of selling it
  • 00:15:47
    abroad to generate more money for the
  • 00:15:50
    revolution this had double the horrible
  • 00:15:52
    result since it turns out ordering a
  • 00:15:54
    bunch of farmers to try to make steel
  • 00:15:56
    out of makeshift furnaces in their homes
  • 00:15:59
    just results in garbage tier unusable
  • 00:16:01
    metal you can't sell and oh those
  • 00:16:03
    Farmers weren't farming so now you also
  • 00:16:06
    just starve tens of millions of people
  • 00:16:08
    to death after Mao's little oopsy senior
  • 00:16:11
    party officials finally decided to re
  • 00:16:13
    him in a bit and reduced his control of
  • 00:16:16
    the country but chairman Ma's ego was
  • 00:16:18
    too strong for their weak attempt to
  • 00:16:20
    restrain him and he subsequently
  • 00:16:22
    launched the great proletarian cultural
  • 00:16:24
    revolution which was mostly just an
  • 00:16:26
    excuse for Mao to consolidate his own
  • 00:16:28
    power power enforce a permanent cult of
  • 00:16:30
    personality around him and Purge the
  • 00:16:33
    nation of undesir bles or basically
  • 00:16:36
    anyone who he thought was against him
  • 00:16:38
    Ma's rain wasn't all bad however in fact
  • 00:16:41
    many Chinese people today believe that
  • 00:16:44
    the great Helmsman as he was called was
  • 00:16:46
    70% correct and 30% wrong a phrase that
  • 00:16:50
    was originally uttered by Mao himself
  • 00:16:52
    when he assessed the legacy of Stalin
  • 00:16:55
    before the Communists took over China
  • 00:16:57
    the nation had been a outdated society
  • 00:17:00
    that was restrained by thousands of
  • 00:17:02
    years of strict confusion philosophy
  • 00:17:05
    compared to the growing but still
  • 00:17:07
    insufficient Freedom women had in many
  • 00:17:09
    other countries at the time Chinese
  • 00:17:11
    women held even fewer rights with forced
  • 00:17:14
    marriages being the norm and divorce
  • 00:17:16
    only available if the man wanted it hey
  • 00:17:19
    hey come here look at me hey look at me
  • 00:17:21
    what' I say no come here look at me hey
  • 00:17:24
    look at me what I no come here look at
  • 00:17:26
    me hey hey what I look at me what I say
  • 00:17:30
    what no come here look at hey hey look
  • 00:17:33
    at you want to get you want to get you
  • 00:17:35
    want to no additionally 90% of the
  • 00:17:38
    population were peasants who were often
  • 00:17:40
    forced to pay insanely High rents to
  • 00:17:42
    oppressive landlords causing hundreds of
  • 00:17:45
    millions to suffer generation after
  • 00:17:47
    generation Dynasty after Dynasty when
  • 00:17:50
    the Communists took over China Mau
  • 00:17:53
    completely eliminated the landlord class
  • 00:17:55
    both figuratively and literally as a
  • 00:17:58
    modern mod day peasant myself I have to
  • 00:18:00
    admit that I sometimes have a bit of Mau
  • 00:18:02
    in me every time the landlord raises my
  • 00:18:05
    rent and because of silly things in life
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    like housing food and gas this might
  • 00:18:10
    actually be the last time I'm able to
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    make a video of this kind the
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    unfortunate truth is that videos like
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    these take thousands of hours of me
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    researching writing recording coming up
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    a team of 10 people so they can publish
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    videos 10 times more often everything
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    me frankly YouTube and sponsors don't
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    really care about how much time and
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    Mao furthermore the Chinese writing
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    system was more or less the same for
  • 00:20:01
    over 2,000 years making it completely
  • 00:20:05
    impractical for any ordinary citizen to
  • 00:20:07
    be literate opium use was widespread and
  • 00:20:10
    ruined people of all social classes
  • 00:20:12
    regardless of wealth thanks to Chairman
  • 00:20:14
    Mau archaic rules for society were
  • 00:20:17
    abolished healthc care and education
  • 00:20:19
    became accessible to the masses and the
  • 00:20:21
    government encouraged women to
  • 00:20:23
    participate in politics and work in
  • 00:20:25
    roles that were previously only reserved
  • 00:20:27
    for men a popular phrase by Mao was that
  • 00:20:30
    women hold up half the sky something
  • 00:20:32
    that Biden apparently loves to quote
  • 00:20:35
    based the chairman is admired by many in
  • 00:20:38
    China for finally unifying a country
  • 00:20:40
    that had been plagued by Civil Wars and
  • 00:20:42
    foreign invasions for over a century an
  • 00:20:45
    achievement neither the previous
  • 00:20:47
    nationalist government nor Ching Dynasty
  • 00:20:49
    ever accomplished one of the most
  • 00:20:51
    impactful decisions ma made was at the
  • 00:20:53
    end of his life when he met with
  • 00:20:56
    President Richard Nixon drastically
  • 00:20:58
    altering ing the global World Order and
  • 00:21:00
    permanently Shifting the balance of
  • 00:21:02
    power from the Soviet Union to China
  • 00:21:04
    Mao's historic Summit paved the way for
  • 00:21:07
    the People's Republic to break into the
  • 00:21:09
    international scene and finally
  • 00:21:11
    establish itself as the one true China
  • 00:21:15
    this meeting however could not have been
  • 00:21:17
    possible without the help of one
  • 00:21:19
    particular American who had secretly
  • 00:21:21
    visited China the year before in order
  • 00:21:24
    to set up this event in the first place
  • 00:21:26
    that person today considered to be an
  • 00:21:29
    old friend of the Chinese people was
  • 00:21:31
    Henry Kissinger the man who forever
  • 00:21:34
    changed America and its relationship
  • 00:21:36
    with the world when touring southeast
  • 00:21:38
    Asia the late Anthony Bourdain famously
  • 00:21:41
    wrote once you've been to Cambodia
  • 00:21:43
    you'll never stop wanting to beat Henry
  • 00:21:45
    Kissinger to death with your bare hands
  • 00:21:47
    and it wasn't just Cambodia you see as
  • 00:21:50
    President Nixon's Secretary of State
  • 00:21:52
    Kissinger managed to gain unprecedented
  • 00:21:54
    power over America's foreign policy
  • 00:21:56
    during the Cold War in the70s with
  • 00:21:59
    Nixon's trust this meant that Kissinger
  • 00:22:01
    was able to control much of what the
  • 00:22:03
    United States did abroad and his
  • 00:22:05
    unapologetically aoral ra politique
  • 00:22:08
    philosophy resulted in decisions that
  • 00:22:10
    can be categorized as nothing short of
  • 00:22:12
    war crimes all in the name of advancing
  • 00:22:15
    American interests some of his Greatest
  • 00:22:17
    Hits include his involvement with
  • 00:22:19
    illegally bombing Vietnam Cambodia and
  • 00:22:22
    Laos overthrowing the democratically
  • 00:22:24
    elected leader of Chile and installing a
  • 00:22:26
    military dictator in his place
  • 00:22:28
    supporting Indonesia's Invasion and
  • 00:22:30
    occupation of East teamour greenlighting
  • 00:22:32
    State terrorism and death squads in
  • 00:22:35
    Argentina and straight up funding a
  • 00:22:37
    genocide in Bangladesh each one of these
  • 00:22:39
    events directly led to Decades of
  • 00:22:42
    dysfunction misery and violence for
  • 00:22:44
    hundreds of millions of people around
  • 00:22:46
    the world with many still suffering the
  • 00:22:49
    effects of Kissinger's policies to this
  • 00:22:51
    day and perhaps the most astonishing
  • 00:22:54
    fact of this all is that Mr Kissinger
  • 00:22:56
    managed to win a Nobel Peace Prize for
  • 00:22:59
    his incredible totally not Psychopathic
  • 00:23:02
    work in Vietnam Kissinger and his
  • 00:23:04
    ideology are a large reason why many
  • 00:23:07
    nations outside the West continue to
  • 00:23:09
    distrust the United States to this day
  • 00:23:12
    those in the west however view him as a
  • 00:23:14
    great Statesman who simply acted in the
  • 00:23:16
    best interest of America what they can
  • 00:23:19
    say about Kissinger is that he helped to
  • 00:23:21
    establish a daytont with the Soviet
  • 00:23:23
    Union and negotiated nuclear arms
  • 00:23:25
    control agreements between the two
  • 00:23:27
    superpowers and while his help in
  • 00:23:29
    opening up China led to serious side
  • 00:23:31
    effects for the US it undeniably
  • 00:23:33
    resulted in over a billion people being
  • 00:23:36
    able to climb out of extreme poverty
  • 00:23:38
    also on the more personal side Kissinger
  • 00:23:41
    was a Jewish child growing up in Nazi
  • 00:23:43
    Germany and managed to escape the
  • 00:23:45
    country with his family just a year
  • 00:23:47
    before World War II began regardless of
  • 00:23:49
    how you feel about who he came to be it
  • 00:23:52
    is indeed admirable that a boy who was
  • 00:23:54
    persecuted by the Nazis grew up to
  • 00:23:56
    become a man who fought against the very
  • 00:23:59
    same regime but I will conclude by
  • 00:24:01
    quoting from the same paragraph I began
  • 00:24:03
    with witness what Henry did in Cambodia
  • 00:24:06
    the fruits of his genius for
  • 00:24:08
    statesmanship and you will never
  • 00:24:10
    understand why he's not sitting in the
  • 00:24:12
    dock at the heg next to mosovich while
  • 00:24:15
    Henry continues to nibble Nori rolles
  • 00:24:17
    and remaki at aist parties Cambodia the
  • 00:24:20
    neutral Nation he secretly and illegally
  • 00:24:23
    bombed invaded undermined and then
  • 00:24:26
    through to the dogs is still trying to
  • 00:24:28
    raise itself up on its one remaining leg
  • 00:24:31
    what Anthony Bourdain is referring to
  • 00:24:34
    was not just America's bombardment of
  • 00:24:36
    Cambodia which itself killed hundreds of
  • 00:24:38
    thousands of civilians but what also
  • 00:24:41
    happened as a result thanks to Kissinger
  • 00:24:44
    what was once a fringe minor communist
  • 00:24:46
    movement in Cambodia exponentially grew
  • 00:24:49
    more and more popular as cambodians
  • 00:24:51
    continued to be senselessly killed in
  • 00:24:53
    these bombing campaigns and the leader
  • 00:24:56
    of this Insurgency that eventually took
  • 00:24:58
    control of the country was a man no one
  • 00:25:00
    had heard of who went by the name Paul
  • 00:25:04
    pot considering that I already made an
  • 00:25:07
    entire video on the horrors of this man
  • 00:25:09
    we can mostly focus on whatever good I
  • 00:25:11
    found about him but to quickly recap in
  • 00:25:13
    case you forgot pulpot was leader of the
  • 00:25:16
    Chim Rouge a Cambodian Communist party
  • 00:25:18
    that became popular after Nixon taking
  • 00:25:21
    Kissinger's advice indiscriminately
  • 00:25:23
    bombed Cambodia which allowed them to
  • 00:25:25
    eventually win a civil war against the
  • 00:25:27
    American back Cambodian government at
  • 00:25:29
    the time after taking power ppot enacted
  • 00:25:32
    a series of disastrous policies that
  • 00:25:35
    forcibly cleanse millions of people from
  • 00:25:37
    the cities to the countryside in order
  • 00:25:39
    to create an agrarian Paradise on Earth
  • 00:25:42
    given that these supposed Urban demons
  • 00:25:45
    hadn't developed any skills related to
  • 00:25:47
    farming and that there was no
  • 00:25:48
    infrastructure planning or feasible way
  • 00:25:51
    to suddenly have millions of people live
  • 00:25:53
    in the countryside starvation was
  • 00:25:55
    widespread throughout the four years
  • 00:25:57
    under the Cima Rouge but starving was
  • 00:25:59
    honestly the least of their worries
  • 00:26:01
    since from the top down popot was
  • 00:26:04
    maniacally paranoid of foreigners ethnic
  • 00:26:06
    minorities and his own people which
  • 00:26:08
    meant that everyone left and right were
  • 00:26:10
    accused of subverting the Revolution and
  • 00:26:12
    forced to produce false confessions of
  • 00:26:15
    their supposed allegiances to the
  • 00:26:16
    Americans Soviets or Vietnamese all of
  • 00:26:20
    whom were Poots foes by the way if you
  • 00:26:23
    somehow found yourself being hated by
  • 00:26:25
    both America and the Soviet Union you
  • 00:26:27
    probably messed up after torturing and
  • 00:26:30
    killing enough ethnic minorities class
  • 00:26:32
    enemies and cambodians the Chim Rouge
  • 00:26:35
    started killing off factions of their
  • 00:26:37
    own group within the organization with
  • 00:26:39
    everyone from ppot himself to the lowest
  • 00:26:42
    ranking Cadre paranoid of being purged
  • 00:26:44
    and killed next seriously check out my
  • 00:26:47
    video on this entire subject my short
  • 00:26:50
    explanation here doesn't even come close
  • 00:26:52
    to describing just how insane po pots
  • 00:26:55
    Cambodia was with that in mind it is
  • 00:26:57
    this especially difficult to find
  • 00:26:59
    something anything this man did in his
  • 00:27:02
    life that could be considered remotely
  • 00:27:04
    good a close Contender would be the fact
  • 00:27:06
    that despite absolutely having the power
  • 00:27:08
    to do so ppot wasn't all that interested
  • 00:27:11
    in building a cult of personality like
  • 00:27:13
    his fellow comrades ma Stalin or kiml S
  • 00:27:17
    one reason for this could be the fact
  • 00:27:19
    that he reportedly found joy in
  • 00:27:21
    deceiving others and remaining elusive
  • 00:27:23
    often going by various pseudonyms and
  • 00:27:25
    lying about himself to other people that
  • 00:27:28
    or it was his sincere hatred for
  • 00:27:30
    individualism so the only good thing
  • 00:27:32
    about popot seems to be his surprisingly
  • 00:27:35
    compassionate treatment toward his wife
  • 00:27:37
    and especially daughter who still
  • 00:27:39
    expresses fond memories of her father to
  • 00:27:41
    this day I guess even the worst of us
  • 00:27:44
    can still have the capacity to love
  • 00:27:46
    someone even now cambodians continue to
  • 00:27:49
    suffer from the illegal bombing of their
  • 00:27:51
    country and subsequent Chim Rouge regime
  • 00:27:54
    that followed because of Po pot in less
  • 00:27:56
    than four long years years up to a third
  • 00:27:59
    of cambodians tragically died with the
  • 00:28:02
    remaining survivors seriously injured
  • 00:28:04
    starving imprisoned or displaced from
  • 00:28:07
    their homes ppot is therefore rightfully
  • 00:28:10
    considered to be one of the deadliest
  • 00:28:12
    dictators in human history with pretty
  • 00:28:14
    much no one else outmatching the
  • 00:28:16
    proportion of deaths he caused okay
  • 00:28:19
    there might actually be one more person
  • 00:28:21
    who can compete with ppot in terms of
  • 00:28:24
    deadliness that would be king Leopold II
  • 00:28:27
    ruler of Belgium and her territories
  • 00:28:30
    abroad and that last part is especially
  • 00:28:32
    important since he's most notorious for
  • 00:28:34
    having committed some of the worst
  • 00:28:36
    atrocities in history against a people
  • 00:28:38
    living in his colony during the European
  • 00:28:41
    Scramble for Africa Belgium was no
  • 00:28:43
    exception and the King wanted first dibs
  • 00:28:46
    on an area in central Africa calling it
  • 00:28:48
    The Congo free state Leopold convinced
  • 00:28:52
    the International Community that his
  • 00:28:53
    goal was to provide humanitarian
  • 00:28:55
    assistance to the region and bring
  • 00:28:58
    civilization to the population but in
  • 00:29:01
    reality this free state was more of a
  • 00:29:04
    sick private Venture of his enslaving
  • 00:29:06
    millions of people to extract as much
  • 00:29:09
    wealth as possible for his own personal
  • 00:29:11
    Fortune the king would rent out pieces
  • 00:29:13
    of the colony to private corporations
  • 00:29:15
    and give them free reign to basically do
  • 00:29:17
    whatever they want in their land to
  • 00:29:19
    maximize their profits within explicit
  • 00:29:22
    blessing from Leopold these companies
  • 00:29:24
    effectively turned their local
  • 00:29:25
    populations into slave labor in order to
  • 00:29:28
    to exploit the Region's rubber a
  • 00:29:30
    resource that was in high demand at the
  • 00:29:32
    time anyone who refused to work for the
  • 00:29:34
    corporations could be killed and entire
  • 00:29:36
    Villages would be wiped out to course
  • 00:29:38
    the rest to comply for those who
  • 00:29:40
    complied and became Leopold Slaves Life
  • 00:29:43
    was hardly any better everyone was
  • 00:29:45
    obligated to meet extremely demanding
  • 00:29:47
    quotas and failing to harvest enough
  • 00:29:50
    rubber was punishable by death King
  • 00:29:52
    Leopold wanted to run the colony as
  • 00:29:54
    cheaply as possible which meant that
  • 00:29:56
    wasting precious supplies was a big no
  • 00:29:59
    no this mentality went all the way down
  • 00:30:01
    to the bullets hired soldiers would use
  • 00:30:04
    against the enslaved population in order
  • 00:30:06
    to ensure that these mercenaries weren't
  • 00:30:08
    misusing them to hunt for food or sell
  • 00:30:11
    for money every bullet fired required a
  • 00:30:14
    right hand to be brought to their
  • 00:30:15
    superiors as proof that it was used for
  • 00:30:17
    the right purpose which was to maintain
  • 00:30:20
    leupold's Plantation and kill anyone who
  • 00:30:23
    resisted but why their right hand well
  • 00:30:27
    smartphones weren't a thing yet so the
  • 00:30:29
    soldiers couldn't just DM their boss a
  • 00:30:31
    photo of the person they shot and
  • 00:30:32
    dragging the entire body back to base
  • 00:30:35
    wasn't really practical either so they
  • 00:30:37
    figured if you could bring back
  • 00:30:38
    someone's right hand it's pretty
  • 00:30:40
    reasonable to assume that you did indeed
  • 00:30:42
    use a bullet on them as a result of this
  • 00:30:45
    atrocious policy severed hands quickly
  • 00:30:47
    became a form of currency to compensate
  • 00:30:50
    for using bullets or even failing to
  • 00:30:52
    provide enough rubber soldiers who were
  • 00:30:54
    in charge of collecting Harvest quotas
  • 00:30:56
    often resorted to cutting off the hands
  • 00:30:58
    of innocent victims so they themselves
  • 00:31:00
    would avoid being punished when they
  • 00:31:02
    didn't bring the required amount of
  • 00:31:04
    rubber family members would be kidnapped
  • 00:31:06
    and taken as hostage to force people to
  • 00:31:09
    work Villages that fell behind their
  • 00:31:11
    quotas would have their leaders
  • 00:31:13
    imprisoned starvation was widespread
  • 00:31:15
    since anyone able-bodied was now forced
  • 00:31:18
    to extract rubber instead of producing
  • 00:31:20
    food and companies would often steal the
  • 00:31:22
    few remaining crop and farm animals for
  • 00:31:25
    themselves children were kidnapped to be
  • 00:31:27
    workers or soldiers cannibalism from
  • 00:31:29
    Leopold's Army was tolerated since it
  • 00:31:32
    helped to instill fear and discourage
  • 00:31:34
    Rebellion for over 20 years King Leopold
  • 00:31:37
    took an area that today would be the
  • 00:31:39
    10th largest country in the world and
  • 00:31:41
    transformed it into a dystopian
  • 00:31:43
    nightmare that somehow combined the
  • 00:31:45
    brutal efficiency of a corporation with
  • 00:31:47
    the lethal power of a state if it wasn't
  • 00:31:50
    for his desire to have his own colony
  • 00:31:52
    and make more money King Leopold II
  • 00:31:55
    could have very likely been remembered
  • 00:31:56
    for the many buildings and projects He
  • 00:31:58
    commissioned throughout his 44 years of
  • 00:32:00
    Reign to this day many of the works he
  • 00:32:03
    built still stands in Belgium and his
  • 00:32:05
    nickname at the time was the builder
  • 00:32:07
    King But ultimately Leopold's actions in
  • 00:32:10
    the Congo represent everything wrong
  • 00:32:12
    with colonialism and serves as a
  • 00:32:15
    textbook example of the system failing
  • 00:32:17
    to provide any benefit to the people
  • 00:32:19
    living there only enriching the foreign
  • 00:32:21
    power that took control what's
  • 00:32:23
    especially disturbing about King Leopold
  • 00:32:26
    is that he never one-step foot in in his
  • 00:32:28
    own colony that he turned to hell at the
  • 00:32:30
    cost of up to 10 million lives or
  • 00:32:33
    roughly half its population Leopold was
  • 00:32:36
    able to profit 70 million Franks
  • 00:32:38
    throughout his reign of terror in the
  • 00:32:40
    Congo but 70 million even adjusted for
  • 00:32:43
    inflation is nothing compared to the $70
  • 00:32:46
    billion that was amassed by the most
  • 00:32:48
    notorious drug lord in the world Pablo
  • 00:32:51
    Escobar considered to be one of the
  • 00:32:53
    wealthiest criminals in history Escobar
  • 00:32:55
    grew up in poverty and started off his
  • 00:32:58
    life of crime with the small stuff
  • 00:32:59
    selling illegal cigarettes and fake
  • 00:33:01
    lottery tickets as well as engaging in
  • 00:33:04
    petty theft Over time however as Pablo
  • 00:33:07
    yearned for more money power and
  • 00:33:09
    Prestige he became involved with more
  • 00:33:11
    violent crimes such as kidnapping and
  • 00:33:13
    killing people however it wasn't until
  • 00:33:16
    the emergence of the cocaine trade when
  • 00:33:18
    Escobar began to distinguish himself
  • 00:33:20
    from the rest of the criminal World
  • 00:33:22
    realizing there was a massive
  • 00:33:24
    opportunity to take control of this
  • 00:33:26
    lucrative drug that was flowing into his
  • 00:33:28
    home country of Colombia and finding a
  • 00:33:30
    way to export it to the United States
  • 00:33:33
    through his natural leadership skills
  • 00:33:35
    logistical Brilliance and sheer
  • 00:33:37
    ruthlessness Pablo Escobar and his
  • 00:33:39
    medine cartel rapidly dominated this new
  • 00:33:42
    Global cocaine trade moving 15 Tons of
  • 00:33:45
    it into the United States every day
  • 00:33:47
    earning him and his cartel as much as
  • 00:33:50
    $420 million every single week for those
  • 00:33:54
    too lazy to do the math that's about $22
  • 00:33:57
    billion a year which if his cartel was a
  • 00:34:00
    proper business would have made it the
  • 00:34:02
    10th largest corporation in the entire
  • 00:34:05
    world at that time and he had the wealth
  • 00:34:07
    to back it up too having been
  • 00:34:09
    consistently ranked by Forbes to be
  • 00:34:11
    among the 10 richest people in the world
  • 00:34:13
    it's pretty easy to hide thousands of
  • 00:34:16
    dollars of unreported tips you earned
  • 00:34:17
    from your customer service job hell it's
  • 00:34:20
    not even that hard to store a million
  • 00:34:22
    dollars as long as you're careful enough
  • 00:34:24
    but just like how a million seconds is
  • 00:34:26
    12 days and a bill billion seconds is 31
  • 00:34:30
    years a billion dollars is much much
  • 00:34:33
    more difficult to hide from the
  • 00:34:35
    government with this in mind what do you
  • 00:34:37
    do when you're getting billions and
  • 00:34:39
    billions and billions of dollars flowing
  • 00:34:42
    in every single year where you have so
  • 00:34:44
    much dirty money that you genuinely
  • 00:34:46
    can't figure out how to store all of it
  • 00:34:49
    well that was exactly Escobar's problem
  • 00:34:52
    since he couldn't just tuck his money
  • 00:34:53
    away in a bank instead having to resort
  • 00:34:56
    to stashing piles of cash in abandoned
  • 00:34:58
    warehouses farms and even in the walls
  • 00:35:01
    of cartel members homes as a result
  • 00:35:03
    Pablo had to write off 10% of the money
  • 00:35:06
    he was making every year because of
  • 00:35:07
    water damage rats eating the cash and a
  • 00:35:10
    variety of other factors that simply
  • 00:35:12
    come with hiding that much money just
  • 00:35:14
    doing some quick maths allows us to
  • 00:35:16
    estimate that he basically lost $2.2
  • 00:35:19
    billion every year which means the
  • 00:35:22
    amount of money he was losing to rats
  • 00:35:24
    and the weather was equivalent to the
  • 00:35:26
    GDP of Congo or three entire Cambodia
  • 00:35:29
    with all this money he had you may have
  • 00:35:32
    assumed that Escobar just spent it all
  • 00:35:34
    on himself and his family and yes he
  • 00:35:36
    definitely did all the typical things
  • 00:35:38
    that people with too much money do like
  • 00:35:40
    building his own personal theme park
  • 00:35:42
    having an enormous Supercar collection
  • 00:35:45
    importing hundreds of exotic animals for
  • 00:35:47
    entertainment you get the point the man
  • 00:35:49
    lived a life of luxury Fit For A King
  • 00:35:52
    but he also undeniably contributed
  • 00:35:54
    significant amounts of his wealth to his
  • 00:35:56
    local community spend spending Millions
  • 00:35:58
    on projects including the construction
  • 00:36:00
    of schools housing and recreation
  • 00:36:03
    centers for the poor regardless of
  • 00:36:05
    whether this was a genuine expression of
  • 00:36:07
    his love for the people or just a
  • 00:36:09
    cynical way to bolster his Public Image
  • 00:36:11
    and political Ambitions many Colombians
  • 00:36:13
    admired the man for doing more for their
  • 00:36:15
    lives than their own government ever did
  • 00:36:18
    despite the ruthlessness of his criminal
  • 00:36:20
    activities no one in Colombia could stop
  • 00:36:22
    him at the height of his power with his
  • 00:36:24
    well-known policy of Plata opo Spanish
  • 00:36:28
    for silver or Lead ensuring that
  • 00:36:30
    everyone from the police to the judges
  • 00:36:32
    to the politicians were either bribed or
  • 00:36:35
    if they refused murdered call it
  • 00:36:37
    arrogance from his success call it anger
  • 00:36:40
    that he got kicked out of politics call
  • 00:36:42
    it the inevitable fate of a drug lord
  • 00:36:44
    gone too big but eventually the king of
  • 00:36:46
    cocaine's actions got too out of control
  • 00:36:49
    for even the corrupt Colombian
  • 00:36:50
    government to ignore by this point he
  • 00:36:53
    and his cartel had murdered four
  • 00:36:55
    presidential candidates 60 judges
  • 00:36:58
    200 Court officials and 1,000 policemen
  • 00:37:01
    with some estimates totaling 60,000
  • 00:37:04
    people dying in his hands he infamously
  • 00:37:07
    ordered the bombings of a commercial
  • 00:37:08
    flight and the National Security
  • 00:37:10
    headquarter in an attempt to assassinate
  • 00:37:12
    two Targets but failed to do so and just
  • 00:37:15
    ended up injuring and killing thousands
  • 00:37:17
    of innocent lives the government finally
  • 00:37:20
    had enough forcing Escobar and his
  • 00:37:22
    family to go into hiding Pablo's son
  • 00:37:24
    recalled the night when they ran out of
  • 00:37:26
    fuel but still still had plenty of money
  • 00:37:28
    with them so his father started a fire
  • 00:37:30
    with $2 million worth of cash to keep
  • 00:37:34
    his sister warm you know you somehow
  • 00:37:36
    messed up in life when the money you
  • 00:37:38
    have is only worth as much as the paper
  • 00:37:40
    it's made out of eventually the king of
  • 00:37:42
    cocaine met his fateful end when the
  • 00:37:44
    government finally located his Hideout
  • 00:37:47
    and raided the place his death created a
  • 00:37:49
    power vacuum not just in Colombia but
  • 00:37:51
    every country that was connected to the
  • 00:37:53
    global cocaine trade naturally this led
  • 00:37:56
    to gang wars around around the world all
  • 00:37:58
    vying for a piece of the Escobar pie now
  • 00:38:01
    starting gang wars is one thing but
  • 00:38:03
    starting a World War there's only one
  • 00:38:05
    person in history that laid the
  • 00:38:07
    groundwork for such a catastrophic event
  • 00:38:09
    to occur and then triggered it to happen
  • 00:38:12
    a man so hated that my inclusion of him
  • 00:38:15
    will cause more controversy than
  • 00:38:17
    everyone else in this video combined a
  • 00:38:19
    man so evil that it may be
  • 00:38:22
    incomprehensible that he could ever do
  • 00:38:24
    something good in his life a man so
  • 00:38:27
    wicked that his name is now synonymous
  • 00:38:29
    with the Devil Himself I am of course
  • 00:38:33
    talking about Adolf Hitler now for those
  • 00:38:36
    of you who skipped to this part you know
  • 00:38:38
    who you are I just want to say history
  • 00:38:40
    ain't all about Hitler there are so many
  • 00:38:42
    interesting people that I covered in
  • 00:38:44
    this video and I hope you were able to
  • 00:38:46
    learn about them too but yeah Hitler
  • 00:38:49
    what can I say about a man that hasn't
  • 00:38:51
    already been said by so many others we
  • 00:38:54
    all know him of course for being the
  • 00:38:55
    dictator of Nazi Germany starting World
  • 00:38:58
    War II by invading Poland and committing
  • 00:39:00
    a systematic genocide against Jews Slavs
  • 00:39:04
    Romani and other minority groups
  • 00:39:06
    considered to be un to mention or
  • 00:39:09
    subhuman what makes Hitler's actions
  • 00:39:11
    uniquely evil was his genuine intention
  • 00:39:14
    to murder every single group he
  • 00:39:16
    considered undesirable unlike many
  • 00:39:18
    others I've mentioned where they could
  • 00:39:20
    hide behind the excuse of killing people
  • 00:39:22
    because they were disloyal or refused to
  • 00:39:25
    surrender or didn't work hard enough
  • 00:39:27
    Hitler had no real excuse he simply
  • 00:39:29
    viewed them particularly Jews as those
  • 00:39:32
    who inherently shouldn't exist and just
  • 00:39:35
    being alive in the fers world was a
  • 00:39:37
    crime punishable by death now when it
  • 00:39:40
    comes to finding something good about
  • 00:39:41
    the man I'm not going to do a Kanye and
  • 00:39:44
    claim that Hitler invented highways or
  • 00:39:46
    the microphone or whatever other
  • 00:39:48
    nonsense he said I am Aid of Hitler
  • 00:39:51
    command of the Third Reich little known
  • 00:39:53
    fact also the mic but surprisingly Nazi
  • 00:39:57
    gery was weirdly Progressive when it
  • 00:39:59
    came to their treatment of animals
  • 00:40:01
    despite his complete lack of empathy for
  • 00:40:03
    human beings Hitler became a committed
  • 00:40:05
    vegetarian and strongly supported animal
  • 00:40:08
    rights an issue not too many people
  • 00:40:10
    cared about at the time after taking
  • 00:40:12
    power in 1933 Germany became the first
  • 00:40:15
    nation in the world to ban Viva section
  • 00:40:18
    and protect wolves from being hunted
  • 00:40:20
    animals could no longer be slaughtered
  • 00:40:22
    without the use of anesthetics and
  • 00:40:24
    boiling lobsters and crabs became
  • 00:40:26
    illegal in true Nazi fashion anyone who
  • 00:40:29
    was caught violating these laws could be
  • 00:40:31
    sent to a concentration camp so in a
  • 00:40:33
    Twisted way Hitler treated animals like
  • 00:40:36
    people and people like animals lastly
  • 00:40:40
    perhaps his greatest achievement which
  • 00:40:42
    saved the world a lot of time money and
  • 00:40:45
    blood was shooting a well-placed bullet
  • 00:40:48
    at himself but you know who definitely
  • 00:40:51
    didn't commit
  • 00:40:53
    suicide would you please State your full
  • 00:40:55
    name and Jeffrey
  • 00:40:57
    Edward Epstein and my residents
  • 00:40:59
    addresses 6100 Red Hook Boulevard in
  • 00:41:02
    Virgin
  • 00:41:03
    Islands Infamous for abusing and
  • 00:41:06
    trafficking children to powerful men
  • 00:41:07
    around the world Epstein is now
  • 00:41:09
    considered to be one of the most vile
  • 00:41:11
    human beings in recent history for
  • 00:41:14
    decades the New York Finance year would
  • 00:41:16
    provide underage girls to politicians
  • 00:41:19
    businessmen and social Elites to gain
  • 00:41:21
    power and influence which might explain
  • 00:41:24
    how a former High School teacher just
  • 00:41:25
    coincidentally became a billionaire with
  • 00:41:28
    private jets and a personal Island looks
  • 00:41:30
    like Walter White trafficed the wrong
  • 00:41:32
    product when he was finally being
  • 00:41:34
    brought to Justice in court it was
  • 00:41:36
    revealed that Epstein had secretly taped
  • 00:41:38
    hundreds of these influential men with
  • 00:41:40
    underage girls for blackmail this fact
  • 00:41:43
    absolutely definitely has nothing to do
  • 00:41:46
    with the two guards watching him both
  • 00:41:48
    falling asleep and then getting caught
  • 00:41:50
    lying about it or the prison violating
  • 00:41:52
    its own procedures by transferring his
  • 00:41:55
    cellmate away right before his death or
  • 00:41:57
    both cameras filming who could enter and
  • 00:41:59
    leave Epstein's cell somehow
  • 00:42:01
    malfunctioning and erasing its footage
  • 00:42:03
    because of uh technical errors no none
  • 00:42:07
    of that has anything to do with the fact
  • 00:42:09
    that Epstein had compromising
  • 00:42:10
    information on some of the most powerful
  • 00:42:13
    people in the world and I'm definitely
  • 00:42:15
    not making any insinuation that this
  • 00:42:17
    conspiracy theory could be true look I
  • 00:42:20
    don't want to end up like a Boeing
  • 00:42:21
    Employee but anyway as much as this
  • 00:42:24
    pains me to say I somehow managed to
  • 00:42:26
    find something good he did over the
  • 00:42:28
    course of his life Epstein donated some
  • 00:42:30
    of his wealth to various causes through
  • 00:42:32
    his Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation which
  • 00:42:35
    by the way you might have thought wow
  • 00:42:37
    this Jeff guy was at least cool enough
  • 00:42:39
    to set up six foundations no the vi
  • 00:42:43
    stood for Virgin Islands which was where
  • 00:42:45
    his Infamous Epstein Island was located
  • 00:42:48
    through his wonderful charity he funded
  • 00:42:50
    research on weird transhumanist subjects
  • 00:42:53
    like genetic engineering Eugenics and
  • 00:42:56
    even freezing bodies to resurrect them
  • 00:42:58
    in the future otherwise known as
  • 00:43:00
    cryonics but surprisingly he also
  • 00:43:02
    donated millions of dollars to science
  • 00:43:04
    programs at Harvard and MIT I must say
  • 00:43:07
    though it's a little weird knowing that
  • 00:43:09
    spoiled rich kids in Elite colleges were
  • 00:43:12
    funded by someone who made their money
  • 00:43:14
    from exploiting impoverished children
  • 00:43:16
    many of us prefer to imagine that people
  • 00:43:18
    like Epstein and others I've mentioned
  • 00:43:20
    are completely separate from normal
  • 00:43:22
    human beings that they almost aren't
  • 00:43:24
    even real people and some may be a upset
  • 00:43:27
    at the way I've humanized them that I am
  • 00:43:29
    somehow bringing them back up to our
  • 00:43:31
    level of dignity when they ought to stay
  • 00:43:33
    below us for all the evil they've done
  • 00:43:35
    to this world but before they became the
  • 00:43:38
    awful people we now know them for Pablo
  • 00:43:41
    Escobar was studying to be a lawyer Mau
  • 00:43:43
    was a librarian Hitler was an aspiring
  • 00:43:46
    artist Stalin went to religious school
  • 00:43:48
    to become a priest Bin Laden attended
  • 00:43:51
    Oxford and was a proud Arsenal fan so my
  • 00:43:53
    point here is actually the opposite that
  • 00:43:56
    we as the normal or good people ought
  • 00:43:59
    not to have the hubris to assume that we
  • 00:44:01
    could never become the monster they
  • 00:44:03
    became that even if we were to have the
  • 00:44:05
    wrong upbringing experience the wrong
  • 00:44:07
    events and make the wrong decisions we
  • 00:44:10
    could still never end up like them it's
  • 00:44:13
    awfully easy to just declare that there
  • 00:44:15
    are evil people and then there's the
  • 00:44:17
    rest of us but it's a little too
  • 00:44:19
    convenient to be true as a child I
  • 00:44:22
    always wondered how it was possible for
  • 00:44:24
    millions of Germans cambodians Japan
  • 00:44:27
    Japanese Soviets Chinese Americans
  • 00:44:30
    honestly every society in history could
  • 00:44:33
    have been complicit in the evil that
  • 00:44:35
    occurred in their time when most of them
  • 00:44:37
    were either apathetic to injustices they
  • 00:44:39
    saw or outright participating in the
  • 00:44:42
    creation of their very own hell but
  • 00:44:44
    growing up is realizing that these
  • 00:44:47
    people were mostly regular folks like
  • 00:44:49
    you and I just conditioned convinced or
  • 00:44:52
    coerced into committing these acts the
  • 00:44:55
    difficult truth is that many of Us in
  • 00:44:57
    fact most of us would have also overseen
  • 00:45:01
    the same evil as the generations of our
  • 00:45:03
    past and hardly any would be the special
  • 00:45:06
    few in history who risked and often
  • 00:45:08
    sacrificed their lives in order to do
  • 00:45:10
    what they thought was right it is from
  • 00:45:12
    this reality that I point to when saying
  • 00:45:15
    that you and I are not as different from
  • 00:45:17
    the bad guys as you may think yes there
  • 00:45:21
    are indeed exceedingly evil people in
  • 00:45:23
    history that stand out from the rest of
  • 00:45:26
    us but whole pot didn't personally Crush
  • 00:45:28
    those children's skulls Hitler didn't
  • 00:45:30
    personally operate those gas Chambers
  • 00:45:33
    and Mao didn't personally execute those
  • 00:45:35
    intellectuals behind every one of these
  • 00:45:37
    figures were millions of people who
  • 00:45:39
    chose the easy way the biologically
  • 00:45:42
    logical way to conform to those above
  • 00:45:45
    and around them we will face the wrong
  • 00:45:47
    way in an elevator when seeing people do
  • 00:45:50
    the same we will deny our own eyes when
  • 00:45:52
    others insist on a different reality we
  • 00:45:55
    will just follow order when an authority
  • 00:45:58
    instructs us to harm and choose to harm
  • 00:46:00
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  • 00:46:18
    kill them all in the pursuit to serve
  • 00:46:21
    our hardwire tendency to conform sorry
  • 00:46:24
    for the less than happy turn but we we
  • 00:46:27
    are talking about the worst people here
  • 00:46:29
    so just as my previous video explored
  • 00:46:32
    those who represent the very best of
  • 00:46:34
    what we're able to achieve this one
  • 00:46:36
    serves to explore those who became the
  • 00:46:38
    very worst of our Humanity together they
  • 00:46:41
    form both parts of essential thesis on
  • 00:46:44
    the nature of who we are which is that
  • 00:46:47
    no one is perfectly good but no one is
  • 00:46:50
    perfectly bad either it's up to us to
  • 00:46:53
    achieve our greatest potential in life
  • 00:46:56
    to try to be the best version of
  • 00:46:58
    ourselves while remaining Vigilant to
  • 00:47:00
    our tremendous capacity for
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Etiquetas
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  • good vs evil
  • dictators
  • atrocities
  • human nature
  • characters
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