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“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About The Vatican directly profited off its prior knowledge of the Holocaust by purchasing life insurance companies which served European Jews. After the war, the few people who tried to claim the life insurance were denied unless they could provide full proof of the death. Unsurprisingly, the Nazis did not issue death certificates for the people they murdered so the Vatican kept almost all the money.

This is thoroughly documented in "Gods Bankers".

That and the Vatican was (and likely still is) a major player in money laundering.

mingy , Bjorn Pierre Report

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350points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago

But the money laundering was done with holy water.

142points

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About The residential schools for Native Americans and all of the horrific atrocities. Literally no one with conscience likes talking about it.

ARatherOddOne , Kavya Kodiya Report

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310points

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Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago

🇨🇦It needs to be talked about. They need to be heard. We need to answer for it.

136points

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About One of the darker reasons the Western Slave trade gets talked about more than the Arab Slave Trade is due to the fact male African slaves were regularly castrated. They didn't breed slaves like the West did, as it was seen as a sign of opulence that you could just buy a new one. No descendants = No one around to speak of the atrocities. Horrifying.

Edit: Also just to add more horror to it, it started 700 years before the Atlantic Slave Trade and the practice still survived up until 1960. Now imagine how many victims and potential generations were wiped out over that length of time.

killingjoke96 , Bluesy Daye Report

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260points

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Ian Webling 1 year ago

A 2021 estimate claimed there were forty-six million slaves worldwide. Up five million from 2018 and more than at any time in history. While legal ownership of humans has been abolished in every country over the last two hundred years, ninety-four have no laws making it a criminal offence. In these countries, one cannot be prosecuted in a criminal court for enslaving someone. That number stood at ninety-five until 2010 when it became illegal to own a slave in the United Kingdom.

51points

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About How the Slave Trade was driven by black africans enslaving and selling other black africans. People are just people, and in large groups people are often utterly horrible to each other.

driftwooddreams , Tasha Jolley Report

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247points

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Pete jamail 1 year ago

Other countries complicity doesn’t excuse what our nation did, which was by many metrics the worst in the world. We also continue to cause active harm to them up to the modern day.

50points

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About While known about here in Ireland, a lot of British people don't seem to be aware of the atrocities that were carried out under Oliver Cromwell. Church burning, kids and women being locked up in a burning church and just genocide of Irish people. It's insane that some British people will put him up on a pedestal, regardless of the amount of evilness he had.

Groundbreaking_Web91 , Teo Ruiz Report

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247points

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J Burrows 1 year ago

Every article I've read about Cromwell always say how awful he was

83points

We treated German prisoners of war better than we treated interned Japanese Americans.

awfulachia Report

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237points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago

Hard to pretend the USA is an enlightened democracy when you know about the real history.

108points

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About The Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire.

Wolfman1961 , Imad Alassiry Report

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217points

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Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago (edited)

Never happened. Regardless of the vast amount of documentation. Are you 🤬kidding me?The photographic documentation. The personal accounts. The fact that that many human beings just “disappeared” from the face of the earth. WE KNOW THIS HORROR HAPPENED!

115points

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About Gandhi, Mother Theresa, and Coco Chanel were actually awful people yet them (or their brands) are still praised to this day.

neonjewel , Mevlüde Bildirici Report

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194points

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Hamad§ 1 year ago

Coco Chanel was a nazi?! How come we aren't thought this is school when we learn about her

59points

#10

I feel like not a ton of people talk about Operation Paperclip, where nazi scientists were snuck into America with fake identities and employed by the US government. Every time I've brought it up, people havent known what it was.

Additionally, the long history of medical experimentation and exploitation of BIPOC in America, and just how deep that s**t goes - ex: the torture of enslaved Black women being at the foundation of the field of gynecology.

Jerfhaus Report

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191points

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Agamemnon O'Neill 1 year ago

Looking at you, Werner von Braun...

53points

Relative_Cold_4756 , Tyler Jornov Report

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“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About That Noah’s Ark story predates Christianity by a thousand years, possible more. And that Dec 25th was a pagan holiday.

Final score:

173points

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TheBlueBitterfly 1 year ago

Most Christian holidays were some kind of pagan holiday. And most stories in the Bible existed elsewhere long before they showed up in the bible.

171points

#12

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About EVERY SINGLE royal family in Europe practiced incest at some point. There was so much interconnection between noble families that at a certain point every nobleman in Europe was closely related to all others. Kings and Queens were basically marrying their cousins since the gene pool was so small. No wonder in the end most nobles were deformed, mentally ill/challenged hemophiliacs. They were inbred all the way.

Exit-Content , Markus Spiske Report

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155points

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the sixthgirl 1 year ago

Lordy, I watched a documentary about the Hapsburgs--worst inbreeding since ancient Egypt!

95points

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#13

American support in politically destabilising countries across Latin America.

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150points

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Sand Ers 1 year ago

Not just Latin America. Anywhere that the establishment of democratic governments threatened to interfere with the theft of natural resources from underdeveloped countries. Anybody who objects to the islamic dictatorship in Iran needs to know that it is the direct result of the US overthrowing a democratically elected government, and installing a repressive puppet monarchy.

79points

#14

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About The US eugenics and forced sterilization program that happened until the 70s. It is also trying to make a comeback if the neo-conservative fascists in the US get power again.

cyrixlord , Christopher Burns Report

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150points

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Undercover 1 year ago

We don't speak about the torture that presumed or real mentaly ill people underwent in the past. Rosemary Kennedy for example was subjected to a lobotomy (as countless other people) because her father deemed her behaviour as shameful for his family. Nobody wants to talk about psychology's gruesome past. Especially nobody in the medical field.

96points

Sue User 1 year ago

This was a terrible thing to happen. However, the pendulum has swung so far the other way, that in Western USA, the bar is set so high for involuntary commitment, the mentally ill cannot get the help that is needed.

8points

gilded panda 1 year ago

now that were talking about it for once, eloise asylum. countless deaths. epilictic girl drowned during hydrotherapy, hundreds of death certiicates and graves though the bodies may never get proper burials with their family. anyone have anything to add?

6points

Garth 1 year ago

Add to this the forced mutilation of children by convincing them they are in the wrong body

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2WheelTravlr 1 year ago

You would have to be living under a rock to not hear about the terrible mistakes made in the infancy of "modern" Western medicine and psychology. Starting in the 1970s there were numerous exposés of the terrible treatment which occurred, especially in institutional settings. Movies like One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest made conversations about these practices mainstream, but the impetus for change actually started back in the 1800s with the Kirkbride Plan.

1point

afia kooma 1 year ago

Norway sterilized and lobotomised up until the 1980. How we have a good reputation internationally is beyond me.

10points

Undercover 1 year ago

As far as I know Sweden was an example of forced sterilizations. The US tried to keep up with the swedish numbers.

2points

Herringbone 1 year ago

Sweden too.

6points

Undercover 1 year ago

You're so right

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Mike Ray 1 year ago

Eugenics is still alive and well thanks to Planned Parenthood... Black women have been experiencing induced abortions at a rate nearly 4 times that of White women for at least 3 decades, and likely much longer.

5points

MCathenaE 1 year ago

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/14/432080520/fact-check-was-planned-parenthood-started-to-control-the-black-population

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Philip Guthrie 1 year ago

Eugenics isn't a rightwing thing--it's a leftwing thing. Look up Margaret Sanger, who was still being honored as the highest award Planned Parenthood gave out until a few years ago. Slavery? Democrats. Segregation? Democrats. Great Society destruction of the black family? Democrats. Race-based admissions? Democrats. Why is it that people who decry government power and misdeeds always vote for the party that promises more power and money going to government. Maybe it's because you're all full of sh*t.

3points

UselessKnowledgeFont 1 year ago

If you are referring to affirmative action, the recent court ruling is a disgrace. Using people who weren't able to get in to top schools on test scores and grades alone to reverse something that post-internment camp Asian-Americans fought hard for is tragic. Also, you do know that the Democrats and Republicans switched "sides"/beliefs in the middle of the last century (1900s), right?

5points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

See Buck v Bell in the 1920s.

2points

TheAmericanAmerican 1 year ago

I like to call them Christofascists.

2points

RW 1 year ago

Genuinely mind boggling to say the least....

1point

Margo Gustafson McNeil 1 year ago

Child abusers should be FORCIBLY sterilized without anesthesia

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Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago

And yet - after 3 children my daughter was denied getting her tubes tied because she was under 30. F*ck you American health care.

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arienne libbrecht 1 year ago

The fertility industry.

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Donna Drizin 1 year ago

This is important to know!

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Mary Kelly 1 year ago

still going on...they are still sterilizing women in CA prisons w/o their consent

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Vermonta 1 year ago

We should be more disturbed and concerned by what they are doing in labs now!

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UtanaYona 1 year ago

It's being practiced in California today...so not necessarily a comeback.

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Jared Robinson 1 year ago

Democrats involved in planned parenthood are also involved in the sterilization of black people. Both sides are evil don't get it twisted.

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Imreallyjustaghost 1 year ago

Don't know why you were downvoted...bc you're right. Both sides have some good, and a lot of evil.

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Joe Kerr 1 year ago

it was something the democrats arent proud of...as it was their program so they dont allow it to be taught in schools

-1point

Mark Mendenhall 1 year ago

Talk about not knowing history. The remaining Eugenics champions is Planned Parenthood and the Facists were leftists but socially conservative.

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago

No, there are no Republicans in support of forced sterilization or eugenics. On the other hand, genetic defects are a common motive for abortions, about 6%-10%, inferring from lower birth rates of common genetic defects.

-1point

Haywood Jablome 1 year ago

The fascists wearing blue or the fascists wearing red?

-1point

Rostit. . 1 year ago

republicans need lobotomies. It would make them slightly more intelligent.

-2points

Jason K 1 year ago

Gotta love the irony in this post criticizing republicans for democratic policies and beliefs!

0points

TRedRandom , Social History Archive Report

#15

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About Native American tribes like the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations owned black slaves and were some of the last slave owners in North America. As they were sovereign nations, the emancipation proclamation didn't affect them, and new treaties needed to be made to stop the enslavement.

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144points

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Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago

When Chief Norma Mankiller was asked about this, the answer was anything but satisfactory.

33points

#16

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About The Aztecs were utterly horrific people who did stuff like flay people alive and wear their skins as a form of worship in their religion. When Cortez invaded the reason he was so successful was because the local tribes wanted the Aztec gone THAT BADLY!

Snowtwo , Justin Ennis Report

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137points

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Libstak 1 year ago

They raided entire villages and sacrificed them by splitting open their sternum and ripping out their beating hearts, in the hundreds at a time, sometimes every day for weeks depending on the festival or worship they were honouring.

52points

#17

Churchill and India are often not seen together in the best of lights and thats putting it lightly.

But when the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre happened, Churchill was the one of the only politicians who stood in defense of the victims.

General Reginald Dyer had ordered his men to fire on an unarmed protest which killed 400 Indians and injured 1000 more. There was a debate in The House of Commons as to what to do with Dyer, as British army personnel were often afforded protections from actions like this and he very nearly got off with it.

Until Churchill, who was Minster of War at the time, stood to give a speech that condemned Dyer. Stating he should have his employment and benefits of it stripped from him and he heavily implied if it was within his power to do so, his punishment would be more severe.

Basically implying he would have been happy to see Dyer hanged.

The Conservative Party was outraged at Churchill for breaking ranks and many of their number said he was a traitor and implied Churchill should be charged with treason. A penalty which carried the sentence of death.

Churchill's speech did work however and while Dyer unfortunately couldn't be charged more severly due to Army regulations blocking such actions. He was stripped of his employment and benefits that came with it. This was one of the first times an event like this had ended up with a higher up receiving accountability in The British Empire.

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135points

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El Dee 1 year ago

Unusual that Churchill made this speech. He had actively encouraged shooting striking Welsh miners prior to this. The British Govt had a history of this at home and abroad, sending tanks into George Square in Glasgow and killing peaceful protestors and the Croke Road massacre. See also Bloody Sunday and how, despite an admission of guilt over shooting an unarmed protestor in the back who was running away and THEN standing over him and finishing the job, the soldier in question was allowed to walk free with no further trial being allowed. That happened within the last two years. Nothing changes..

50points

EmoVampireDetective , Wendy van Zyl Report

#18

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About That historians are just as catty and petty as any other profession.. I'd have to dig to find it, but one of my Masters college classes was about the historian perspective over the eras and how they write history or whatever: and the text book really made historical fact become visible as this "thing" that people really have argued about for all time... fact is broken down to perspective... and personal philosophy plays more a part in history writing than you'd like to think.

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132points

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Ian Webling 1 year ago

As an archaeologist, one of the first things I learned about the past is how much it changes over time according to changes in social beliefs.

76points

Apprehensive_Bee7344 , By Official Photographic Company - Missouri History Museum Report

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“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About That there were human zoos created by the Europeans and the last one was closed in like the 80s or 90s.

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108points

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hwatinternation 1 year ago

There were also human zoos in the US.

63points

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#20

I'm a big fan of Franklin Roosevelt and a big World War Two history buff. I think the American accomplishments in logistics and manufacturing were the eighth wonder of the world in the 1940s, and I'm proud of what my country did in the war.

...and then someone brings up the Japanese-American internment camps and I'm like, "Oh, yeah...there was also that."

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104points

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

Because history, and the people, are complicated. People keep wanting the world to be easy to describe, and that is not and never will be how it works.

80points

#21

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About When the allies liberated Nazi concentration camps, the homosexuals that were 'liberated' were sent right back to the same camps as it was logistically easier than transporting them to an allied prison. This was because homosexuality was still illegal.

Tiny_Front , Craig Adderley Report

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103points

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Colin Matthews 1 year ago (edited)

That’s a significant oversimplification. Basically the ex prisoners were so unwell and the infrastructure so damaged that some, not all, prisoners were treated at camp facilities. They were not reincarceratedfor being gay

96points

#22

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About Ustashe had torture camp for children operated by the Catholic Church.

dexterthekilla , Evgeny Nelmin Report

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94points

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H0rny Cl!t Eating Lesbian 1 year ago

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76points

#23

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About The Dutch once cannibalized their Prime Minister.

Space19723103 , Jonathan Kemper Report

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93points

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PlatinumThe8-BitCat 1 year ago

Apparently his brother was eaten, too, according to googlej

10points

#24

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About Unit 731. At least I don't like talking about it since it's so vile and evil

my_son_is_a_box:

Not just that it existed, but that most everyone involved walked free, and the whole thing was kept secret by the US government until the 1980s.

catonsteroids:

Definitely not for the faint of heart if you want to know what went on. It’s pure evil, animalistic, barbaric, and absolutely sick, all in the name of “research”.

nkg_games , Jon Butterworth Report

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92points

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Procrastination 2.0 1 year ago

What happened there?

25points

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#25

Canada had prison camps for German soldiers back in the WWII. They were treated so nicely and with so much trust that many of the POW were given jobs outside of the prison, and they always returned voluntary, even if it took more than one day. Some were even trusted weapons for hunting, in front of the guards. The worst punishment they could receive? When the war ended, they were obligated to return home. Imagine having such "nice life" for so long and then having to return to a home destroyed. Many years later, these former members of the German army decided to return to Canada as tourists or even buying land and starting families and businesses.

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89points

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Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago

Allied and Axis soldiers were interned in neutral Ireland during WW2, if they crash-landed, parachuted, washed up on the shore, or wandered into Ireland. They were all treated well, and friendships between Allied and Axis sprang up, with men from both sides joining in permitted expeditions to local pubs. At the war's end, more than a few from both sides decided to stay on in Ireland.

43points

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#26

I tried really hard to think of something a lot of people might not know about, and I came up with the MOVE bombing.

I live in Philadelphia; I moved here in 2007. And it wasn’t until a few years after that when I moved to west Philly that I’d ever heard of the MOVE bombing. I consider it something people don’t like to talk about, which is why many people have likely never heard of it.

From Wikipedia “Philadelphia police dropped two explosive devices from a helicopter onto the roof of a house occupied by MOVE. The Philadelphia Fire Department allowed the resulting fire to burn out of control, destroying 61 previously evacuated neighboring homes over two city blocks and leaving 250 people homeless.[3] Six adults and five children were killed in the attack,[4] with one adult and one child surviving. “

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89points

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Todd R 1 year ago

And it was a black mayor who authorized the attack on the Move compound. Then they let the fire burn out an entire city neighborhood that was rebuilt at taxpayer expense and the builder did a terrible job.

46points

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#27

Patrick B Kennedy - son of John F Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy. Born while JFK was in office and 5 weeks prematurely. He lived only 2 days and is probably one of the biggest reason modern neonatalogy really took off in the United States. Read up on him if you have a chance. It’s good to remember that everyone matters no matter the age.

StarlightInDarkness Report

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87points

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David A Paterson 1 year ago

On the topic of premature babies. It's only a week since I learnt that some 12,000 babies were blinded, most of them in the USA, by the excessive amounts of oxygen pumped into neonatal care units for premature babies.

40points

#28

The Americans don't like when I bring up that the Canadians (I guess they were technically still "British" at this point..) burned down the White House during the War of 1812.

sp0rkify Report

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77points

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Christian Golden 1 year ago

How do they react that it was in retaliation for the Americans' burning and looting of the Canadian capital of York sixteen months earlier?

67points

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#29

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About Modern postural yoga-- the type and style predominantly practiced in Western countries-- is about 100 years old. It was invented in India by Indians and is derived mostly from British calisthenics and Swedish gymnastics. It was specifically marketed to affluent Westerners by Indians as a superior form of spiritual and physical exercise. It's working as designed for its target market.

CunningRunt , Avrielle Suleiman Report

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76points

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Calvin Smelliott 1 year ago

Wait, what? I just want to be bendy….

42points

#30

European-Chinese relations in the 19th century.

The opium wars, the partition of parts of china to different European countries, the boxer rebellion, the taiping rebellion, most of the 19th century was china being utterly humiliated by Europe and fragmented which led to utter chaos in the early 20th century.

Maester_Bates:

In China they call it the century of humiliation.

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74points

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El Dee 1 year ago

Imagine using class A drugs to make money and control a population. Britain did it then and the US did it in the 80s..

40points

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#31

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About A lot of countries who in the modern day like to wag their finger at how other countries are doing and style themselves as "the best" by various social metrics achieved their current state through war, exploitation and destruction of the environment.

PckMan , Stijn Swinnen Report

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74points

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El Dee 1 year ago

Older generations would say, 'if it wasn't for us you'd all be speaking German' But they forgot that we already don't speak our native language because we were already conquered and colonised by an English speaking nation who banned our language, culture and way of dressing..

55points

#32

The slavery practice of coverture. And the slave trade of the Ottoman Empire that continued into the 20th century.

That was predominantly done to women and children so........pfft unimportant apparently to the topic of slavery.

VinnyVincinny Report

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74points

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UpupaEpops 1 year ago

And that quite a significant portion of Ottoman slaves were white. Read up on Florence Baker for example.

25points

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#33

Brutality in Australian Aboriginal society pre colonisation

It was not some dreaming utopia, but the abuse of women, assault, murder, tribal rivalries, are all ignored and any discussion will see you labelled a racist.

For example - Paleopathologist Stephen Webb in 1995 published his analysis of 4500 individuals’ bones from mainland Australia going back 50,000 years. (Priceless bone collections at the time were being officially handed over to Aboriginal communities for re-burial, which stopped follow-up studies).[15"> Webb found highly disproportionate rates of injuries and fractures to women’s skulls, with the injuries suggesting deliberate attack and often attacks from behind, perhaps in domestic squabbles. In the tropics, for example, female head-injury frequency was about 20-33%, versus 6.5-26% for males. The most extreme results were on the south coast, from Swanport and Adelaide, with female cranial trauma rates as high as 40-44% -- two to four times the rate of male cranial trauma. In desert and south coast areas, 5-6% of female skulls had three separate head injuries, and 11-12% had two injuries. Web could not rule out women-on-women attacks but thought them less probable.

Ok-Geologist8387 Report

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68points

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El Dee 1 year ago

I feel like this is going to be the story of most peoples history. Not sure why this is either surprising in any society or racist to talk about - unless you forget to mention that all societies have been like this in their development..

50points

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#34

There's almost no archaeological evidence for the Jewish exodus out of Egypt or their slavery therein. Likewise, there's very little contemporary evidence for the existence of a historical Jesus.

Two of the most defining cultural narratives have scant historical corroboration.

tpk-aok Report

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67points

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Ian Webling 1 year ago

Correction: there is NO evidence for the Exodus. One thing I find amazing that it took forty years to reach the promised land. The total distance was 240 km. A person, walking at 3 km/h for 12 hours per day could walk it that fours days. Waking at a more realistic speed for a heavily burdened person in a desert of 2 km/h for 10 hours per day would take 12 days. I calculated that a snail could make the journey in 19 years.

70points

#35

The Philippines were colony of Spain for hundreds of year and when Filipinos were about to win thier independence on their own, Spain sold the Philippines to US then US acted like saviors.

Spaniards were pretty racist to Filipinos that they dont bother teaching them spanish for 300 years of occupation.

US troops setup education camps and thats why Filipinos speak english as a second or third language instead of spanish.

Sharp_Aide3216 Report

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65points

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Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago

On the other hand, there's a saying about the Philippines history under Spain and America: 'five hundred years in a convent, fifty years in a whorehouse'.

49points

#36

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About On paper black American men got the vote before white women. In practice, white women got the vote before black men.

Kafkaja , Edmond Dantès Report

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62points

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gilded panda 1 year ago

it goes like this back then, rights wise; white man, white women, black man, black women. statisticly, black women have had it the hardest, since they need black rights AND womens rights to do anything

36points

#37

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About That US spy agencies hired Nazis to work as spies during the Cold War.

I learned about this reading a biography of Virginia Hall. It meant that she, as an employee of the CIA, was now working side-by-side with the same men who had tried to disrupt her operations and kill her during WWII. Ms Hall certainly wasn’t the only one put into this extremely dubious and awkward position.

AudreyLocke , RDNE Stock project Report

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52points

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BrookeBT 1 year ago

And how many Nazis the US and Russia recruited for their space programs among other things

25points

mordenty , ALEJANDRO BRONCANO GALLIFA Report

#38

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About The British made the first large-scale concentration camps (for the second Boer war), and although they didn't deliberately try to kill the occupants they also didn't do much to alleviate the awful conditions - particularly in the camps holding coloured people, where 1 in 6 died.

The vast majority of inmates were women and children - those with male relatives still fighting were given smaller rations as an incentive for their relatives to surrender.

Final score:

52points

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Ian Webling 1 year ago

This is a divisive topic in White South Africa. While it is true that the British set up concentrations and they were initially diabolical, the atrocities were the result of mismanagement compounded by corruption. After Emily Hobhouse became involved, conditions improved. By later stages of the war, the death rate in the camps was lower than that in Belfast - not in war zone. After the war, Louis Botha, a Boer leader who became Prime Minister, said, "Thank God for the concentration camps." While I am not condoning the creation of the camps - that was done in response to the "scorched earth" policy of the British, an equally odious policy - they were not an attempt - as is often claimed - to exterminate the population.

17points

#39

The allies also committed genocide (bengal) and had concentration camps (Kenya).

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sofacushionfort 1 year ago (edited)

History buffs may cite the British camps for Boer civilians, with 30K deaths (a large portion were native farm laborers) as the first concentration camps, or the Spanish camps in Cuba at the same time. But earlier in the 19th C., the US set up camps as they rounded up the Cherokee and other SE tribes in preparation for the Trail of Tears. Deaths in these camps exceeded those on the march itself.

34points

#40

There has not been any point in American history where all men have had the enforced right to vote. At the time of the Revolution, the right to vote (and it was an enforced right) was solely afforded to white, male property owners - about 6% of the population of the Colonies, ~150,000 men. During Reconstruction, the right to vote was given to all men but, obviously, it wasn’t enforced for black men. It’s also worth noting that, in many states, a widow could vote in the name of her dead husband if he’d been eligible. Fast forward to 1920 and women get it, but it isn’t enforced for black women. In 1963, the Voting Rights Act passed, since which all women have enjoyed the enforced right to vote. However, before and after this, some states require men to be registered with Selective Service (the draft) in order to vote, making it a privilege for these men as opposed to a right.

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Sky Render 1 year ago

And thanks to gerrymandering, votes count for basically nothing in quite a few US states. If you value your faith in democracy, don't read up on what North Carolina just put into law in regards to this ongoing problem of anti-democracy...

40points

#41

One of the last known anti-Jewish pogroms in Poland took place in the summer of 1946.

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El Dee 1 year ago

One of the things that the publicising of the Holocaust (because remember this was not generally known by the allies and definitely not by their populations) is that it GREATLY reduced hatred and actions like this against Jewish people. (NB 'reduced') But sadly the lesson learned by society was not that hate was wrong but merely that targeting hate to Jewish people was unacceptable. Nowadays all of the institutions that hated or were at least suspicious of Jewish people have turned this towards Muslims - with no outcry from society..

30points

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#42

Augustus lost *two whole legions* at Teutoberg. That’s about 20,000 troops, and that’s terrible

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Christian Golden 1 year ago

3 legions: 17th, 18th and 19th. Plus auxiliaries and cavalry sqns. Estimates range between 15000 and 27000 dead, Thanks, Arminius!

15points

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#43

Inca empire lasted less than a century, starting in 1434 (around the same time modern printing started), they were conquerors that eliminate other natives for territory, some of this cultures were pretty much erase from history, others did survive and some of their deities and people were adopted by the Incas.

They also had a "tax system", when most of the crops went to the Inca ("The leader" that was seem as the son of the Sun, a demigod basically) and his family, the leftovers were for the population (contrary to the Aztecas, when it was the other way around).

When Spanish conquerors arrive (less than 200 men), they received the help from this other natives against the Incas, as warriors or translators.

Heck, before independence in 1821, many Peruvians were against it, they were forced to become independent from Spain with the combination of argentines, chileans, venezuelans and more.

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#44

Switzerland operated a concentration camp for allied POWS during WW2 and treated them massively contradictory to the terms of the Geneva conventions.

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Ace 1 year ago

Giving it that name is deliberately provocative. As a neutral country Switzerland was not really allowed, and was geographically unable, to return escaped POWs, so housed them in internment camps, as did the Irish mentioned elsewhere in this list and other neutral countries. The Geneva conventions apply to parties in a war, so are irrelevant in this context.

34points

#45

“Unit 731”: 45 Dark Historical Events And Facts That People Don’t Like To Talk About One of the 1st - if not the 1st - cases of slavery in the US was a black man, Anthony Johnson, petitioning the court to keep his indentured servant for life.

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Pete jamail 1 year ago

“Finally! A single unsourced anecdote about a black guy owning a black guy. We’re off the hook everybody, Racism is both sides now!!! - 3/4 American Congress

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Sky Render 1 year ago (edited)

Starting in the 1940s, the since-debunked theories of John Money have been used as a means of justifying abuse of intersex children. Intersex infants born with ambiguous genitals are regularly mutilated daily in nearly every country on the planet (to date less than a dozen nations have banned unnecessary infant genital surgery, and the US is not on that list!). More broadly, it is considered socially acceptable and expected for parents of intersex children to: hide the truth about their birth, conceal medical records, put them on hormone replacement therapy without consent or even knowledge, and deny any inquiry about their differences from other children. Intersex erasure is codified into nearly every civilization on this planet. And it's been going on for long enough that general awareness of intersex being real is now gone.

16points

Temporary Dork 1 year ago

In the Netherlands, thanks to a well-known tv personality, intersex is now a familiar concept, but in Europe "sex-normalizing" surgeries on babies are only prohibited in Albania, Germany, Malta, Portugal and Greece.

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BluEyedSeoulite 1 year ago

I'm the type of person that if I so passionately disagreed with say hormone replacement therapy, I'd look up examples in the past and use it to beef up my argument. I have yet to hear someone make the comparison between forced HRT and genital confirming surgeries of intersexed children and transitioning procedures. I mean, it's almost as if it's 'okay' as long as they are 'normalizing' the child. Just something I've noticed. Personally, I think we can make giant strides with helping people by just de-gendering a ton of c**p and not shoving people into boxes but that would take effort as a society

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago

OTOH, a very small portion of gender-nonconforming people have anything to do with genetic intersex conditions. The number of births with ambiguous genitals is somewhere between 1 in 2500 to 1 in 4000. Late onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia is far more common, (1 in 1500, some sources saying 1 in 50) but is not intersex. Neither lacking a second X chromosome (Turner Syndrome) or having a second X AND having a Y chromosome (Kleinfelter's Syndrome) is associated with homosexuality; Kleinfelter's syndrome results in body appearance which is in some ways more feminine, but has not been associated with transsexualism; Turner's syndrome actually results in traits which are sometimes associated with female dimorphism and others which are sexually ambiguous, but women with Turner's syndrome are actually less likely to be lesbian, asexual, or bisexual.

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Will Cable 1 year ago

The sad thing is that schools (not all) are not teaching these things because it may upset children. If we don't teach the past the future is likely to have the same things happening again.

13points

Apatheist Account2 1 year ago

"Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them".

11points

just me 1 year ago

I would say because parents don't want to deal with their upset children.

2points

Steven 1 year ago

Teaching about the past is no guarantee that the same or similar things will not occur in the future. If we do teach the past, the future may still have the same or similar things happening again! What has happened in the past does not remain entirely in the past. Evil continues.

0points

steven 1 year ago

Holodomor - the Ukraine famine that was caused (or at least exacerbated by russia), killed millions in an attempt to stifle the push for independence. Looks like they have continued where stalin left off.

12points

TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago (edited)

The crimes against humanity commited by the USSR in general often get overlooked - The regime under Stalin killed 20 million people for political reasons, deported asian and jewish minorities in the country and started wars all around them. The oppression of other countries till 1990 also doesn't really make it into history class

6points

gerard julien 1 year ago

I remember watching a documentary on tv where an old ukrainian lady who survived the Holodomor was saying that she saw some mothers eating their dead babies !

1point

Der Kommissar 1 year ago

That is why the Ukrainians welcomed the invading German army in WWII with bread and flowers. The Nazis took a page from the Soviet playbook, and absconded with the Ukranian grain and let them starve.

0points

David A Paterson 1 year ago

I can't confirm or deny most of these. They're shocking and difficult to believe. Those few I do have direct knowledge of are true.

6points

Bec 1 year ago

I think a lot of people do know now, but less than 10 years ago I was in a leadership training with all college educated peers and we were listing examples of good and bad leaders and one category was immoral leaders. The obvious example might be Hitler but I said Columbus. The facilitator treated me like an idiot and said that was a bad example because he was just a product of his times. We just moved on but for your information not only was Columbus incompetent in not knowing how large the planet is and that he didn't actually get to India (he seemed to know later but because of him Native Americans are still referred to by many as indians), he and his crew committed terrible atrocities like forced labor of the natives who they punished when they didn't bring them enough good by chopping off their hands and making them wear it around their neck and still forcing them to work. In Columbus's own diary he writes of basically using prepubescent girls as currency among his men.

4points

Bec 1 year ago

Much of what we learned in school decades ago was because a guy wanted a positive role model for Catholicism. A point of pride to have an affinity group, Knights of Columbus, and a holiday!

2points

Der Kommissar 1 year ago

This is the most depressing post I've read in years.

3points

The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago

I feel like a lot of these “gee whiz” posts are an attempt to smear schools and prove that they’re “holding out” on teaching “real” history. First off, it isn’t the schools that decide what should be taught; it’s school boards and departments of education. The state board of education in Texas basically sets the standards for the country; due to its sheer population, they wield enormous influence over what does and does not end up in books and on tests. Needless to say, the Texas board of education is very right-wing and restricts information that would upset conservative reactionaries. Second, there really is only so much that can be covered in a class. In American high schools, it’s basically a survey class so doing a deep dive on anything just isn’t going to happen. That doesn’t mean anyone is covering anything up or trying to whitewash history. And these days, if you really want to know more about something, the internet is right there.

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Dan Flo 1 year ago

"From 1934 to 1974, 62,000 Swedes were sterilized as part of a national program grounded in the science of racial biology and carried out by officials who believed they were helping to build a progressive, enlightened welfare state." https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/08/29/sweden-sterilized-thousands-of-useless-citizens-for-decades/3b9abaac-c2a6-4be9-9b77-a147f5dc841b/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Institute_for_Racial_Biology

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gerard julien 1 year ago

EUGENICS : USA, SWEDEN, JAPAN, GERMANY and PERU ! " Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter human gene pools by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or promoting those judged to be superior."

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T.O.S.o.R. 1 year ago

Margaret Sanger started planned parenthood as a way to eradicate black people in the United States.

2points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Actually, she was more horrified by the slum dwellers of NYC, who were generally not from northern/western Europe. She wanted Italians and Poles to stop breeding. It expanded from there. Lovely woman/s/

0points

Jared Robinson 1 year ago

I think Humans are evil.

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Sky Render 1 year ago

The bigger issue is that humans have free will without the accompanying sense of responsibility that should come with that. Doing absolutely terrible things does not cause immediate distress in humans, and indeed, it is possible to learn to enjoy doing terrible things. We are not evil, we lack any sort of built-in "moral compass" or even "ethical compass" and can easily install one that runs contrary to how morality and ethics should work.

1point

Nimitz 1 year ago

What's most horrifying about this article is all the people trying to defend or "um actually" explain why the evil people weren't that bad...

1point

gerard julien 1 year ago

LYING OR LYING BY OMISSION : ALL COUNTRIES DO THAT AND ARE USUALLY GOOD AT IT !

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Bruce Horton 1 year ago

It's interesting how Euro/US centric most of these dark secrets are.

0points

Douglas Tucker 1 year ago

Our concern over our belief that we should hide any historical facts from our young people and others because it may shame someone or some group is generally found not to be true. But, as common folks, we do a similar hiding of family events everyday when one of our drunk uncles was found naked on a neighbor's front porch as the school kids were coming home or our sister with the four kids by four different men in rapid succession are being discussed by the adults around the dinner table. And if someone young asks about the conversation, what usually is said is, "We are not going talk about that. It might hurt someone's feelings." Image if one of the young people at the table wanting clarification of the partial conversation may have taking the event to be a hugh azz personal learning lesson on what not to do with their lives and what not to inflict on others. Just saying...

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MINNI THE HAMSTER 1 year ago

Ppl still do public executions

0points

Steven 1 year ago

Just when you thought that you heard most of the stories about how depraved and evil governments, nations, and societies have been, herein are fresh additions!

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Sky Render 1 year ago (edited)

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Temporary Dork 1 year ago

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BluEyedSeoulite 1 year ago

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago

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Will Cable 1 year ago

The sad thing is that schools (not all) are not teaching these things because it may upset children. If we don't teach the past the future is likely to have the same things happening again.

13points

Apatheist Account2 1 year ago

"Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them".

11points

just me 1 year ago

I would say because parents don't want to deal with their upset children.

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Steven 1 year ago

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steven 1 year ago

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago (edited)

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gerard julien 1 year ago

I remember watching a documentary on tv where an old ukrainian lady who survived the Holodomor was saying that she saw some mothers eating their dead babies !

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Der Kommissar 1 year ago

That is why the Ukrainians welcomed the invading German army in WWII with bread and flowers. The Nazis took a page from the Soviet playbook, and absconded with the Ukranian grain and let them starve.

0points

David A Paterson 1 year ago

I can't confirm or deny most of these. They're shocking and difficult to believe. Those few I do have direct knowledge of are true.

6points

Bec 1 year ago

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Bec 1 year ago

Much of what we learned in school decades ago was because a guy wanted a positive role model for Catholicism. A point of pride to have an affinity group, Knights of Columbus, and a holiday!

2points

Der Kommissar 1 year ago

This is the most depressing post I've read in years.

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The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago

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Dan Flo 1 year ago

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gerard julien 1 year ago

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T.O.S.o.R. 1 year ago

Margaret Sanger started planned parenthood as a way to eradicate black people in the United States.

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Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

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Jared Robinson 1 year ago

I think Humans are evil.

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Sky Render 1 year ago

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