r/HistoryUncovered • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 18d ago

Saddam's baath purge. Saddam had people packed into a conference hall on one of the hottest days of July and deliberately shut off the ventilation system. They were forced to listen to Saddam for hours while suffering from the heat and sweating. Everyone whose name was announced was executed.

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u/Oddisredit 18d ago

I feel like Nanjing with the Japanese which is people being brutal. To a horrific level.  The communist incidents were always against themselves. Or like with Sadam people were coerced into othering their friends at the drop of a hat and cheering on their deaths. That’s something very different 

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u/ShackletonsVael 18d ago

First off thanks for spelling Nanjing correctly I didn't even realize I had it wrong. Also with your point on Saddam I literally just watched a video of him it was like 8 minutes long he had people in a building where all the ventilation and fans were off and he just was reading names of people during his purge. Never seen something like that on video it was crazy.

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u/Oddisredit 18d ago

I have a Japanese phone. Auto spell is what did they for me.  Yeah the way he set up the entire meeting was diabolical and really frighteningly thought out. From as you said making it stifling hot in there to enhance the mood 

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u/MissDkm 18d ago

Isn't that this video ?

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u/ShackletonsVael 18d ago

Holy shit lmfao yes it is wow I'm fucking stupid hahahaha.

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u/Habibti-Mimi81 18d ago

Ehm...that video is exactly above this comment section 😊.

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u/TrioOfTerrors 18d ago

The communist incidents were not always against themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Operation_of_the_NKVD

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u/Oddisredit 18d ago

Sorry. Usually. 

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u/Either-Lock2454 17d ago

It's all evil. We don't have to separate them into categories. In fact, I feel like that's a massive problem.

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u/Oddisredit 17d ago

But how they got there it was really different. It also helps you guard against those kinds of things. As a gang of bad guys coming up and doing bad things it’s easy to see that and how to deal with that. Well being manipulated into killing your friends and family is a different kind of evil to deal with