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The Black Book of Infamy
In the annals of history, there have been quite a few objectively evil human beings.
Their crimes are as gruesome and notorious as they are anathema to our modern sensibilities. We oftentimes cannot, in our time of relative peace and stability, truly fathom some of the greatest crimes of history.
Adolf Hitler is a name that gets thrown around a lot, and he deserves his place at the top of the list of the infamously inhuman- but he is far from alone. Stalin, Lenin, and Mao killed over 100 million people in forced-labor camps, through executions, and as a result of mass starvation in the last 100-years alone.
Haiti’s father son duo of dictators certainly deserve a place on the list. The murderous Papa Doc and his son Baby Doc aren’t as well known as some of their megalomaniacal forbears, but they inflicted plenty of suffering, torture and death in their time.
The Khmer Rouge, and its better known leader Pol Pot, deserve to be on the list as well. Genocide, mass murder, torture and terrorism were all this monstrous regime ever inflicted on the people of Cambodia.