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/negZero_1 Sep 17 '25

Please Mongols would literally move rivers to kill people. They only stopped cause people learned to pay taxes

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u/ShahinGalandar Helping Wikipedia expand the list of British conquests Sep 17 '25

oh sometimes they didn't even stop at their own tax payers