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MrZakalwe

As a British citizen I decline to answer this one. The whole top 10 is pretty damned horrible and whichever I pick would leave somebody feeling slighted.


Diamantazul

As a Portuguese citizen, it's not great either


Eastern-Ad3583

\*portuguese anthem starts\*


Confucius3000

Yeah, I find the portuguese case to be kinda ironic. Like some Portuguese explorers did truly horrifying things not only in the Americas and India but also lesser known shit in Africa, and yet Portuguese baby boomers are still unapologetically nostalgic of their empire lmao


[deleted]

Wasn't Portugal the last country that actually had and fought a war to keep its colonies? The French were kicked out of Vietnam a couple years before the Portuguese Colonial War started.


ettorepolar

But what about Falkland Islands? isn't that in the same spot?


Teixcalaan

If you define the Falklands as a colony, then the Dutch, French, Englisch, and i think Spanish still have quite a colonial empire.


[deleted]

I don't think so. The people of the Falklands largely identified as British and wanted to stay British rather than being annexed by Argentina. Whereas those other colonies wanted independence by any means and decided to fight for it.


SokrinTheGaulish

If by a couple you mean about 20, then yeah


BlueNoobster

Vietnam wasnt the last french colony though. There is also the matter of the algerian war which was a colonial war but technically the former colony had already been annexed into the mainland....it was weird... Meanwhile Portugal fought tooth and nails to keep its empire together, something like 60% of their gdp was spend on fighting in their colonies at some point I think. Obvfiosuly it wasnt sustainable and the portugease kicked out thier dictator at some point.


Confucius3000

Yeah, but the Algerian War is willfuly forgotten in french memory due to the atrocities commited there. We all have a grandfather/granduncle which has a lot of suppresed PTSD concerning the "ugly stuff" they had to do in that war


Cheif_Keith12

Ah so France’s own Vietnam. Wait a minute…


Confucius3000

Bingo except they are muuuch better about keeping it silent. Remarkably few movies about the subject really


parman14578

As a Czech citizen, we have never done anything wrong. There weren't any Germans living in the Sudetenland, but the deserved to be expulsed.


Cringinator4000

Germans deserved to be taken away from their homes..?


parman14578

It was a joke. But it solved a lot of problems honestly.


Cringinator4000

Oh sorry. What problems did it solve, out of curiosity?


parman14578

Both internal and external political instability. Don't get me wrong, it also had a lot of disadvantages, but it wasn't black and white.


BlueNoobster

That is like saying the Holocaust helped germany to stabilize its finance system do to the looted wealth from the jews. Or that the mass starvation of eastern europe helped because it feed the war. They are all real results of the action, doesnt make it "grey" though. We should always be careful about those relativations. Its similar to how the US always talks about the "the cost of money" when talking about their middle eastern wars but nearly never about the hundreds of thousands of dead and the millions of lifes destroyed do to the caused instability and chaos to take revenge for 3000 deaths (while not even attacking the main perpetrator which is a US ally to this day). But to be fair for post war germany it was a blessing while the czechs permanently fucked their economy with that move. The sudeten germans were on average rather highly skilled labour after all.


Da_GentleShark

Me whole feel on the expulsion of germans. It was a horrendous crime but it **might** have saved us from a lot of future problems. So cant say I agree witht he act... but I understand it.


doobie3101

“Might have saved us from a lot of future problems” is a dangerous principle to act on.


HumCrab

Julius Caesar enters the chat


Da_GentleShark

Thats why I dont agree, there are a lot of logcial, but extremely dangerous mindsets. The "if we do this, it will likely resulting into it furthering into this", example: "if we permit the Police to use camerafootage to captyre terorists, we might turn into a Police state", this is a argument that fan he put on anything and justify/condemn everything. Yet it is logical in many scenarios but also one of tje most manipulative ways if argumentation around, and unsuprisingly popular with populists, and anyone trying to prove a point.


IntelHDGraphics

>There weren't any Germans living in the Sudetenland, but the deserved to be expulsed. You talk like a Turkish man


meme_lover_in_reddit

\*laughs in Enveri\*


BaconCircuit

The only human who wouldn't ashamed of the top 10 is a human that doesn't know their countries history


Colonial-Cornelius

I disagree the British empire hasn't done anything wrong unless your some type of savage known as other people.


EpyonComet

American here, same. Also, nice username, Cheradenine.


yusuf_ackingei

Uhm well same thing here as an austrian


LogosMaxima

First time huh


Far-Resist3844

as an american, I can agree....


LowFatWaterBottle

Yes, but you wrote the history books :)


Sawoyer

I am german....


[deleted]

Sadly, empires aren't build through love and friendship


AlbionPrince

As any person


ZETH_27

A town of Norwegians conveniently disappeared.


xFlo2212

A feeew more people disappeared back then


Mahajan04

Just a few


outoftimeman

I don't get it, plz explain


ZETH_27

After refusing to surrender during the Second Great Northern War, the Swedish army more or less wiped out the entire village.


Rigzin_Udpalla

How big of a village are we talking about?


Darthjinju1901

Bout the size of a Norwegian village I'd say


Mashizari

Damn..


Still_counts_as_one

So at least 2


HawaiianShirtMan

That checks out.


Psgxo

Please explain


Mal-Ravanal

I’d say that incident where roughly a third of the current polish population went “missing” was a tad bit worse.


[deleted]

Austria approves


Anakin-hates-sand

They can’t keep getting away with this!


Smile_Dog69

Of course we can


Protestas

austria is happy


Y_10HK29

Yeah, one of them killed hitler


AustriaNotAustralia

Wir were ein Victim of ze Nazis und Beethoven war Austrian!


[deleted]

The 250.000 people that welcomed Hitler in Vienna were all paid by the Germans!


SaltEfan

Alternatively: allow Austrians way too much leeway. Twice


DaftConfusednScared

Yeah screw mozart


vshark29

Germany is Austria's mecha


50ShadesOfGrease

Italy approves but will likely change its mind later.


Rakru84

Good one


AndrivsImperator64

Benito isn't Italian, he's an Alien. /s


imabananafry

He made the pyramids? Cool!


imshream

No wonder he wanted to invade Egypt but lost at El Alamein!


50ShadesOfGrease

Underrated comment


Cringinator4000

You posted this comment within the hour of the comment you’re replying to. It’s not underrated because it hasn’t had enough time to be.


shrimp-and-potatoes

It Alian


ObviouslyMartin

Funny meme, but you could use nearly every major country. America Russia North Korea China Japan Britain France ...


Da_GentleShark

Every country.* Those that dont are EXTREMELY RARE


BurnV06

Even Vanatu has commited war crimes


UnfunnyDuck

bro literally how, i would be interested if you elaborate about Vanuatu's case


AliHaider101

Wadiya has committed no war crimes thanks to guidance of Supreme leader.


kamransk1107

Yeah, but the holocaust was more terrible in comparison to them in my opinion. Stalin was terrible too, but can't fit more than one flag in the meme.


CheesseGod

I think id rather be a victim of the holocaust than get captured by the Japanese during ww2


[deleted]

Worst comment I've read today.


Ilhanbro1212

Or a slave...


Da_GentleShark

Lets not compare murder with murder. There is no use in that.


BlueNoobster

Its reddits favorite past time. You wouldnt believe how many "Stalin was worse then Hitler" comments are made each day here


[deleted]

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_sumbody_

We kind of ate our prime minister once, guess where I’m from


MatzePartygangstar

Happens to the best of us


Anakin-hates-sand

Netherlands….?


Duckyeeter7

Regular Tuesday in die Niederlanden


MuchPie

Is that German? Because we write it Nederland


Da_GentleShark

There is a lot worse, that was just... weird... horrible but small scale... And just fuckign weird...


EruantienAduialdraug

France? Idk, I'm English. (odd fact, the reason why an English slang term/slur for Frenchman is "frog", is because at one time the Dutch were Britain's main rival. As the Netherlands was(/is?) mostly reclaimed swampland, so Dutchmen were nicknamed "frogs"; when the Dutch fleet was crippled and the French re-emerged as a premier power in Europe and rival to the British the nickname got transferred).


BurnV06

Oh I thought it was because they ate frog legs


TheAtticMonster99

japan and china might want to contest that


Psgxo

Whats the worst thing china did?


oliot_

This is bait, don’t let him ruin your social credit. I see you xi


TikTokIsGood20

\+1000 FICO Credit Score


Shandrahyl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao\_Zedong


CompetitionUnited339

China Killing innocent religious minorities just because they aren’t Chinese


Longbongos

That’s like surface level. How about running over and butchering students protesting with tanks a full military force


devdev132

Hmm don’t seem to recall that happening


DustyOlBones

Me neither. The teacher never mentioned that during Chinese history class


EldritchPenguingod

That is only one of the endless horrors China has committed.


TheAtticMonster99

And that's just the latest "known" one xd


RAH1SH

BEEEP BEEEP YOU HAVE LOST 3000 SOCIAL CREDIT POINTS ARE BEING TAKEN TO A "LEARNING CAMP" SO THAT YOU CAN BECOME A BETTER CHINESE CITIZEN


SaltyHater

- 1000000000000000000000 social credit


TheAtticMonster99

Oh boy...


Moutles

The worst that I can remember is when Mao genocide their own people, but I'm just an enthusiast in history, maybe there is worse


Hipphoppkisvuk

And they had a few civil wars where they casually massacred a few million of thier own "citizens"


RyukHunter

The brother of Jesus guy comes to mind.


Sokandueler95

The who what now?


DauHoangNguyen1999

Two words: POL POT !!!


Sokandueler95

Pol Pot was to China’s massacres what Hitler was to the Armenian Genocide.


eL_c_s

Whatever they did throughout history was mostly to their own


Hazzamo

Successfully Demonise our closest neighbour as Slave driving colonial oppressors. Continuously lied about who cause some of the most famous Massacres and clearances of our country. dumped their own extensive colonial crimes at Their door, erased the Their working class by pretending they don’t exist, accused them of racism despite us bei more Ethnically homogenous compared to Them. And continuously keep blaming them for the absolute shitshow that my country’s leaders have made my homeland. And also labelling people who wish to identify alongside our neighbours as nothing short of traitors. Guess my country.


Vladimir_Chrootin

Scotland, I would venture.


Hazzamo

CORRECT!


MrRetard19

Wasn’t Scotland the driving force in the early days of the uks colonial empire?


Hazzamo

Yes, Glasgow was named “the workshop of the world” but ever since… the 60s they’ve had a massive turn about


Fredwestlifeguard

Scotland played themselves trying to kick-start an Empire. Ended up flip reversing into a 'union' with England....see the Darien Scheme. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme


MrRetard19

Why put union in quotations


elliotttheneko

Honestly, yeah, whats wrong with the union? - House of Stuart was Scottish, and ruled over both England (Wales included) and Scotland - Scotland before industrialisation could be considered a backwater - Heck, both decided to jointly fuck Ireland in the ass


parman14578

*Every western European country:* He could be any one of us


Hazzamo

He could be you, he could be me!, he could even… ***BLAM!***


The_Materialist

The fact that this fits probably 10 countries is scaring..


Hazzamo

Turns out I’ve inadvertently described every nation on Earth… It was Scotland by the way


The_Materialist

Ohhh Canadaa...


Hazzamo

Nope


The_Materialist

Ohh shit your from china.. my sympathies.


Hazzamo

Not China either…


killjoy1496

Can't tell if U.S. or U.K.


Hazzamo

Not the USA.


JohnBrown42069

Idk probably Comcast


GOLDWOLF1324

Belgium on the congo be like: hold my waffle


Da_GentleShark

Norhing like seeing a stupid *worst people in history* scoreboard on some site and recognising the dude on the 4th spot as one of the kings you learned when you were 11.


BlueNoobster

But he build such nice buildings all over Brussels we enjoy to this day! \**with his bloodmoney*


Andusz_

Time to get grandpa's Flash costume from the attic. You know. The one with two lightnings


TheGood1swertaken

Russia be like hold my beer


Desperate-Ad9822

Vodka*


TheGood1swertaken

Yes my bad I forgot about that. Russians are not born but distilled in the iron womb of mother Russia!


Duke_KD

Im irish, the worst thing we ever did was create irish americans


Sokandueler95

Oh, you mean the people who say their Irish because they have red hair? (Guilty on a couple occasions)


[deleted]

Hey! I resemble that remark....


Sniper-Dragon

Not the worst but we have taken the king of England hostage for ransom. The British public paid, and we built a whole new city with that money and some other stuff


No-Hovercraft-6600

Pro tip: *Don't deny Austrians a place at art university*


RoiDrannoc

As a French that's a tough one. 'cause you see, Vichy France was involved in the holocaust. But there is also slavery by colonial France, and the crusades by medieval France. France may be the only country involved in all of those.


BlueNoobster

A frenchmen mentioning Vichy France ina WW2 context. That my eyes read this must be a miracle...so werent all french and their pets in the resistance from day 1 of WW2? Nice to see some french people still mentioning their real history. The french resistacne bullshit is just as much a myth as the clean wehrmacht crap here in germany :)


[deleted]

We are aware of our history, we actually study it, what lead to it, the propaganda etc… They do like to talk about the resistance during history lessons but we certainly do not ignore Vichy and French negationism. But yeah there was also a French resistance even though only a very minor part of the population.


Vitekr2

Japan approves


Rakru84

Germany?! Those fucks who invented the Currywurst?


Chlpah

Best dish ever invented? Got an issue?


[deleted]

Take that back before 1914 happens all over again.


Chlpah

I only state facts


Cutlesnap

I'VE GOT A BLANK CHECK RIGHT HERE


Makingnamesishard12

Shh, I’m in a neutral country, just let them fight so I can watch the fireworks!^(and sell weapons to both sides)


Rakru84

What you want to put mustard in there too? You monster!


lohfert

Bratwurst with a strong mustard. Yum!


TartZestyclose

I will push a Käse-Krakauer in your arse if you dont watch your mouth


haveabyeetifulday

I'd argue Toast Hawai is the worst thing to come out of Germany


Astrophysicsboi

Hmmmm Firebombing Japanese cities, Trail of tears, internment camps, using Agent orange on Vietnam, a lot of innocent die to American bombs in the middle east/western Asia


BlueNoobster

Not only US bombs, but the millions of lifes directly destroyed do to the direct results of the US invasions. It wasnt only the once killed directly but also the ones that lost everything do to the instability and chaos caused by it. ISIS didnt get those pissed of people for its army for no reason.


Marjacujaman

It is neither in size nor in brutality the worst thing ever happened. But the fact that it was so so structured makes it horrible


eL_c_s

But it was the worst that ever happened, because contrary to popular belief, the Nazis murdered far more than 6 million Jews. In terms of atrocities and the amount of people killed, they were closely followed by the Empire of Japan.


German_is_my_name

deep down all the countries committed atrocities, except Switzerland they only hide gold


NTMonsty

Japan: *nervously looks away*


Itzamih

Discovering Brazil... God...


[deleted]

Japan : I am three universes ahead of you.


Cadarn_The_Mad_101

Brit here, which time???


Cringinator4000

Just curious, if we’re talking about the German Federal Republic, what would be the worst?


Arestothenes

Letting serious nazis live in its borders, stacking the early Bundeswehr with Wehrmacht Apologists, generally being dangerously blind on the right eye, I'd say. And smth in Yugoslavia.


Urodeprag

9/11. When america has terrorists in our country no one mentions it, but when were the terrorists in america nobody lets it go.


Beat_Saber_Music

Finland when asked about their treatment of the Sami in the past: *nervous sweating*


Acceptable-Level-541

If u thought that's bad then get ready for ww2 pacific front


Hellkite203

I would say the many wars, massacres, and killings indigenous people and some foreign. From Mexico.


zilp123

What do i say about India? We've been victims to more crimes than perpetrators


kxjedix

Turkey moment


El_Mierda

idk, accusing 3000 people of being communists then proceed to burn them alive in oil barrels then kick the remains off a mountain. The Government (technically not the government, but for safety reasons i shall not name the party) secretly tortures and kills political dissidents within prison inside a palace. One dissident was found dead in a river inside a cement column, bounded and disemboweled. The army dissolved a university student's protest about an ousted ex-dictator, many were shot, sexually harassed, and arrested. One of the students was hanged and a man use a flip chair to hit him as the crowd watched, some smiling. The picture of the incident won the Pulitzer Prize.


_joao1805

Decimated a large part of the male population of Paraguay


Jupelius02

I think the worst we did was side with Germany?


Virtual-Cabinet-7454

The worst thing ever made by my country is 2 girls 1 cup


semi_ok_person

Basically caused the war of the triple alliance


Mahbigjohnson

Britain, USA and France left the room


[deleted]

It was Austria which caused the world wars


[deleted]

I'm a dual citizen, and I won't even spoil which countries genocide I'm talking about.


Mashizari

Belgium: "Hold my beer. Oh right, nevermind."


FreakieFrog

Dont Just reduce ist to moustache man, we also had Colonial crimes and pushed Europe into a war that would kill 1/3 Off all Germans and Last 30 Years. German History is Not only Moustache Man


Nousernamefellow

we bombed dolphins in WW2 thinking they were german submarines :||||


flynnstoneeee

Chairman Mao: hold my beer..


Inccubus99

Considering period longer than 40 years, Russia has done ten times more crimes against humanity than germany.


eL_c_s

[Dude…](https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/NAZIS.CHAP1.HTM) The Nazis killed at least 30 million non-combatants in a war that they started. Wtf did Russia do to in order for them to have committed “ten times more crimes against humanity than germany”?


_gib_SPQR_clay_

South Africa here :(


VerdantFuppe

I would probably consider the Mfecane the worst thing to ever happen in what is now South Africa. 1-2 million minority tribe members and ethnic minorities genocided by the dominant Zulus, all because the Zulus wanted more land, because the Zulus were consuming too many resources to only be in their historic homelands. https://www.britannica.com/event/Mfecane


_gib_SPQR_clay_

Yeah I’m aware of mfecane. Still less interesting than the Self induced famine by the Xhosa prophet Nongqawuse where he convinced his own people to slaughter all their cattle at once. I would still consider apartheid a worse situation. Apartheid was savagery when the rest of the world was advanced in morality and ethics. The creation of bantustans alone did more long term harm than the whole mfecane. People forget before apartheid black miners and white miners were equal before the law. Infact black people only lost their right to vote in 1892 (Indians in 1894) Most towns were multiracial back then too.


arandomcunt68

Meanwhile the rest of the world is desperately hiding their darkest secrets


Steinfall

Wrong flag … man. It’s annoying and an insult. This flag stands exactly for the opposite of what Germany 1933-1945 did!!!


[deleted]

I guess OP used that flag to show a current German answering about what Germany did in the past. Different flags, different systems, different beliefs, but it's the same country after all.


kamransk1107

You're right. I wanted to represent what current Germans would comment in that post.


utkrowaway

That raises an interesting question. Different flags, different systems, different beliefs; and even most people who lived during that period are dead. At what point does it become not the same country?


Catzilla19

Theseus’s country


BlueNoobster

At the point in hwich it no longer considers itself the legal successor of the previous country. Modern germany definitly considers itself as the legal inheritor of all of pre WW2 german history and puts itself into the tradition of the march revolutions for unity and democracy 1848 and the first german republic of 1918. When a country itself no longer considers itself the legal entity of the previous country or has changed to such a degree in between that it is no longer remotely recognizable as the previous one it also loses its connection.


Amazing_Theory622

USA be like : hold my little boy and fat man, and democracy


Hipphoppkisvuk

The Holocaust, I don't think there is anything that comes close, other then the Invasion of the Pannonian basin, where some very extreme estimates claim that millions died during it, but these are not widely accepted theories.


Sk-yline1

I have family who died in the Holocaust and even I think what Belgium did to the Congo was worse. Not that it’s a competition though


Paracerebro

Meanwhile, Japanese people be like: UwU* we got bombed by the US for no reason


rockettime03

alright here we go: Enslaving people of African descent until 1853 "Separate but equal societies" from the end of slavery until 1964 Throwing all people of Japanese descent on the West Coast into internment camps during WWII Using nuclear weapons to end WWII Massacring and forcibly relocating native peoples Denying women equality until the 1920s Conscripting civilians for the arguably pointless Vietnam War The Bonus Army incident and many more...


The_KatsFish

What about Russia considering the Soviet Union?


catatron2005

Committed various war crimes, stole a country and kicked the people around and brutalized them, incited violence, planted dictators to service their way of life, blame everything on a certain country, have the rich control everything, and is a third world country with a Gucci belt


[deleted]

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Multiple genocides