In the 1870 Paraguayan War, Paraguay's losses amounted to 70%... Of their entire male population (civilian AND military). Women weren't exempt either... They just fared slightly better. Overall population loss was about 60%.

It took several decades before they were considered to have "recovered."

The reasons for the war are almost as bizarre as the outcome. Paraguay was a f***ing weird country.

Not many countries try to force interbreeding of native and European populations to make everyone mixed race. And when I say "force", I mean it. Paraguay, for a time, actually made it illegal to marry within your own race.

During Stalin's forced industrialization of Russia, he would take all the farmers' food/crops they grew leaving them to starve. This led to extensive cannibalism, including many recorded cases of parents eating their children.

Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government in 1962. The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to both stage and actually commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blaming them on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba.

The possibilities detailed in the document included the possible assassination of Cuban immigrants, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes to be shot down or given the appearance of being shot down, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.

Fidel Castro had taken power in Cuba in 1959 and began allowing communists into the new Cuban government, nationalizing US businesses and improving relations with the Soviet Union, arousing the concern of the U.S. military due to the Cold War. The operation proposed creating public support for a war against Cuba by blaming it for terrorist acts that would actually be perpetrated by the U.S. Government. To this end, Operation Northwoods proposals recommended hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government. It stated:

The desired result from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere.

Several other proposals were included within Operation Northwoods, including real or simulated actions against various U.S. military and civilian targets. The operation recommended developing a "Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington".

The plan was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense. It was authorized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then rejected by President John F. Kennedy.

There were decently sized communist and radical labor movements in the southern US through the late 1800s up until the 1930s that have been mostly wiped from popular US history

For example: sc.edu/uscpress/books/2009/3802.html

doubt

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

I feel like a lot of people dont know basic history facts, importantly, about the past 150 years, most public school history classes are focused distant, irrelevant time periods and gloss over US history and everything surrounding the world wars

Many Samurais, Knights and Spartan warriors were gay and f***ed little boys in their free time

Gandhi, a man who fighted for social equality in india, hated black people

Women in native indian societies were treated better than women in european societies 500 years ago. It was quite a shock for the white people there

the battle of suiyang was some f***ed up s***

a tang garrison was in battle with yan invaders, and they were outnumbered heavily (10k tang vs 150k yan)

a long-standing famine had occurred and wreaked havoc on the city at the time, so soldiers in the tang dynasty ran out of food. so they turned and ate (literally ate) the civilians and corpses from battle. 20k-30k people were estimated to have been eaten, and the civilians didn't even rebel

this def been on my radar recently

yeah with your last point, native american women literally influenced the suffrage movement

gandhi was a piece of s***