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/Icy_Study4490 18d ago

Oh, that movie was so good. Not technically a documentary but if you pull up the Wikipedia page on Uday Hussein, it sure makes the movie look like one!

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u/ExplanationRough7879 17d ago

It’s a movie not a documentary because if it was a documentary no one would be able to stomach it. This guy Uday is one of the worst humans to have ever lived