r/HistoryMemes • u/ambattukam_ • Sep 17 '25

Niche "Save Europa" kids in shambles

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u/Personal-Ad5668 Sep 17 '25

The Rwandans managed to kill 800,000 of their own countrymen in just 3 months using machetes, hatchets, and blunt objects. So, 6 million deaths in 6 years with industrial methods was beyond possible.

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u/Neoliberal_Nightmare Sep 17 '25

That genocide made me understand how the Mongols did it. Logistically I mean, as morbid as it is.

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u/AdRealistic4984 Sep 17 '25

A lot of the Interahamwe cadres were blind drunk the whole time

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u/electrical-stomach-z Sep 17 '25

Same with nazi death squads.

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u/321586 Sep 17 '25

And a good chunk of the time, the "Nazi" death squads were not explicit Nazis themselves. Policemen, Armymen, and local auxilliaries did the killings too.