25 Historical Facts No One Wants to Talk About

‘The emergency powers granted after 9/11 are still being renewed’
25 Historical Facts No One Wants to Talk About

I don’t think anyone is under the impression that history is filled with nice things people did for each other in the past. It’s hard to get through more than a couple years in a row before people start getting chopped up, set on fire or both. Usually over either who owns a plot of land or what god they think created it.

Still, there are bits of history even the buffs don’t like to discuss.

Spanglertastic . Зу ago The 2nd Congo War. This was the deadliest conflict since World War 2 with over 5 million people killed. Most people have never heard of it despite it ending less than 20 years ago.
1-800-Hamburger . 3y ago The emergency powers granted after 9/11 are still being renewed
sfmchgn99 . 3y ago Between the 1930s and the 1970s, about 1/3 of the female population of Puerto Rico was sterilized.
LittleMsBlue . 3y ago The reason egyptian mummies are so rare is because we used to eat them or turn them into medicine.
EXusiai99 . 3y ago 20-30 million people died because a chinese himself the brother of Jesus guy proclaimed Christ.
LowThreadCountSheets . Зу ago The history of the west Virgina coal miners, and the civil war that it brought about.
Pokoirl Зу ago The Rif is the area of Morrocco with the highest rate of cancer patients. Research shows that 80 % of adults and 50 % of children with cancer in Morocco are from the area that the Spanish Air Force repeatedly bombed with mustard gas and other chemical weapons in order to quel Berber fighters during the independence struggle from 1921 to 1927. Spain still refuses to issue an apology for this war crime, despite having signed the Geneva convention when they used these weapons on Moroccans.
BrainQuilt 3y ago Edited Зу ago In the early 1900s before WWII, over 30 states in the US had laws allowing the forced sterilization of immigrants, minorities and the disabled. Hitler would later comment on how some of his laws were inspired by these states. Just look up Eugenics in the US. Over 100 women in California prisons were forcefully sterilized between 2006-2010. That was only 12 years ago.
Saint_Circa . Зу ago Edited 3y ago That the siege and sacking of Tenochtitlan was done almost explicitly by neighboring tribes. Who hated Aztecs for the blatant crimes against humanity that they pursued on a regular basis. Kidnappings, human sacrifice, etc. Spanish s of the sacking of the city are unbelievably graphic.
JayeKimZ. . 3y ago One of the biggest proponents for prohibition were suffragettes who found a correlation between alcohol consumption and domestic violence
altruistic_rub4321 3y ago Edited 3y ago I am Italian, we love to call ourself victims of Nazi but we invented fascism and we first bombed civilians with gas (in Libia, 1911- 12), we invaded Ethiopia slaughtering and raping politically killing the League of Nations. We sucked and we suck like all the people in the world while we love to say Italiani brava gente, Italians (are) good people. EDIT: When i say we sucked and suck i meant we are not special...like nobody is. In the right condition, in the wrong situation everyone can start ethnic cleaning someone else
Kbdiggity . Зу ago Comfort women During WW2, the Japanese military kidnapped women from the Asian countries they invaded and forced those women to be sex slaves to please countless Japanese soldiers.
fruor . Зу ago Edited Зу ago Marcus Lucullus Crassus invented (EDIT: поре, revived) decimation after a series of lost battles. Не had every 10th soldier of his legions killed in order to boost the morale of the others. It worked.
PussayDESTROYAAA_420 . Зу ago Psychological experiments were often highly unethical historically, experiments with children were particularly cruel a lot of the time.
MaryPain666 . 3y ago Sweden sterilized/castrated some 300,000 (probably more) disabled individuals, sometimes as early as childhood from the 1930s-1970s.
MomCat23 . 3y ago King Leopold II of Belgium was an all around awful person and what he got up to in Africa is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.
Зу ago МК ultra. Only conspiracists care anymore. Most Americans don't know what it was. A brief explanation for those who don't know: MK-Ultra was a top-secret CIA project in which the agency conducted hundreds of clandestine experiments-sometimes on unwitting U.S. citizens-to assess the potential use of LSD and other drugs for mind control, information gathering and psychological torture. Though Project MK-Ultra lasted from 1953 until about 1973, details of the illicit program didn't become public until 1975, during a congressional investigation into widespread illegal CIA activities within the United States and around the world.
vegetarianrobots . Зу ago The FBI's COINTELPRO program to attack the Civil rights movement.
Jakkul26 . 3y ago Unit 731. I think the Japanese government still refuses to acknowledge that this happened or at least skirts around it and it makes me fucking sick.
AceBv1 . 3y ago The last english man arrested for being gay was in the year 1999 he was in the army and it was still a crime to be gay in the army
bouquetofheather 3y ago Edited 3y ago The US had/has a history of forced sterilization on minority women (primarily Native American and Black) Edit: I'd like to add Hispanic, poor and mentally ill to the list. (I didn't mean to exclude them, I just hadn't personally read up on them and didn't want to put incorrect info out there.)
Sphism . Зу ago A lot of Americans were pro Hitler in ww2 1.3K ...
GrandpaJoeSloth . 3y ago In the Stone Age, when people would kill a bear, the first thing they'd do is rip open its stomach to eat the meal the bear had consumed before being killed.
Antique_Sense_7383 3y ago America had concentration camps
GrandpaJoeSloth . 3y ago During the battle of Waterloo, one of the most treasured pieces of loot was the teeth of the deceased soldiers. ~200 years ago, it was rather common to use the teeth of dead people in the creation of dentures

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