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Most cruel rulers ever –part ii
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2. • Ivan IV of Russia (Ivan IV Vasilyevich), also know as Ivan the
Terrible, was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 to 1547 and
was the first ruler of Russia and the first to be proclaimed tsar
of Russia (from 1547).
• Historic sources present disparate accounts of Ivan’s complex
personality: he was described as intelligent and devout, yet
given to rages and prone to episodic outbreaks of mental
illness.
• He enjoyed burning 1000s of people in frying pans, and was
fond of impaling people. Ivan’s soldiers built walls around the
perimeter of the city in order to prevent the people of the city
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4. • Adolf Eichmann was born in March 19, 1906, in
Solingen, a small industrial city in the Rhineland.
• He was a German and one of the major organizers of
the Holocaust.
• He was hanged by the state of Israel for his part in
the Nazi extermination of Jews during World War II.
• “The death of five million Jews on my conscience
gives me extraordinary satisfaction.”
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6. • Leopold II was the King of the Belgians, and is chiefly
remembered for the founding and brutal exploitation of
the Congo Free State.
• Born in Brussels the second son of Leopold I and Louise-
Marie of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the throne on
17 December 1865 and remained king until his death.
• Leopold created the Congo Free State, a private project
undertaken to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo
region of central Africa, which relied on forced labour and
resulted in the deaths of approximately 3 million
Congolese.
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8. • Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and
the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
• He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and
dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
• Hitler was at the centre of the founding of Nazism, the
start of World War II, and the Holocaust.
• By the end of the second world war, Hitler’s policies of
territorial conquest and racial subjugation had brought
death and destruction to tens of millions of people,
including the genocide of some six million Jews in what is
now known as the Holocaust.
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10. • Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet
Union from 6 May 1941 until his death in 5 March 1953.
• Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the
Russian Revolution in 1917.
• Stalin probably exercised greater political power than any
other figure in history. In the 1930s, by his orders, millions of
peasants were either killed or permitted to starve to death.
• Stalin brought about the deaths of more than 20 million of his
own people while holding the Soviet Union in an iron grip for
29 years.
