The bloodiest wars. Photographers' bloody war

The war seen in a dream - to the deterioration of affairs, unrest and chaos at home and in relations with relatives.

For a young girl to see that her chosen one is going to war means that she will hear unflattering reviews about his character.

To imagine that you are going on the attack in a war means that in reality you can turn up a very profitable and feasible job.

To be in a war and watch the course of hostilities - in reality, beware of insidious friends.

Hear on the radio or watch on TV everything related to the war - in reality you will suffer from major events that will somehow affect you personally.

If you dream of victory in the war and general rejoicing about this, then in reality there should be a revival of the dead business, and harmony and complete mutual understanding will reign at home.

Losing a war means persecution, natural disasters, humiliation and insults.

Seeing troops leaving for the front, general excitement, confusion and chaos - to worries, troubles, sadness, and for the sick or the elderly - new sores.

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Wars are as old as humanity itself. The earliest documented evidence of war comes from a Mesolithic battle in Egypt (cemetery 117) about 14,000 years ago. Wars have been fought across most of the globe, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of millions of people. In our review of the most bloody wars in the history of mankind, which should not be forgotten in any case, so as not to repeat this.

1. Biafran War of Independence

1 million dead dead
The conflict, also known as the Nigerian Civil War (July 1967 - January 1970), was caused by an attempted secession of the self-proclaimed state of Biafra (Nigeria's eastern provinces). The conflict arose as a result of political, economic, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions that preceded the formal decolonization of Nigeria in 1960-1963. Most of the people during the war died of starvation and various diseases.

2. Japanese invasions of Korea

1 million dead
The Japanese invasions of Korea (or the Imdin War) took place between 1592 and 1598, with the initial invasion taking place in 1592 and a second invasion in 1597, after a brief truce. The conflict ended in 1598 with the withdrawal of Japanese troops. Approximately 1 million Koreans were killed, and Japanese casualties are unknown.

3. Iran-Iraq War

1 million dead
The Iran-Iraq War is an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from 1980 to 1988, making it the longest war of the 20th century. The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on September 22, 1980 and ended in a stalemate on August 20, 1988. In terms of tactics, the conflict was comparable to World War I as it featured large-scale trench warfare, machine gun emplacements, bayonet charges, psychological pressure, and extensive use of chemical weapons.

4. Siege of Jerusalem

1.1 million dead
The oldest conflict on this list (it occurred in 73 AD) was the decisive event of the First Jewish War. The Roman army besieged and captured the city of Jerusalem, which was defended by the Jews. The siege ended with the sack of the city and the destruction of its famous Second Temple. According to historian Josephus, 1.1 million civilians died during the blockade, mostly as a result of violence and starvation.

5. Korean War

1.2 million dead
Lasting from June 1950 to July 1953, the Korean War was an armed conflict that began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, led by the US, came to the aid of South Korea while China and the Soviet Union supported North Korea. The war ended after a truce was signed, a demilitarized zone was established, and an exchange of prisoners of war took place. However, no peace treaty has been signed and the two Koreas are technically still at war.

6. Mexican Revolution

2 million dead
The Mexican Revolution, which lasted from 1910 to 1920, radically changed the entire Mexican culture. Considering that the country's population was then only 15 million, the losses were appallingly high, but numerical estimates vary widely. Most historians agree that 1.5 million people died and nearly 200,000 refugees fled abroad. The Mexican Revolution is often categorized as one of the most important socio-political events in Mexico and one of the biggest social upheavals of the 20th century.

7 Chuck's Conquests

2 million dead
The Chaka Conquests is a term used for a series of massive and brutal conquests in South Africa led by Chaka, the famous monarch of the Zulu Kingdom. In the first half of the 19th century Chaka at the head of a large army invaded and plundered a number of regions in South Africa. It is estimated that up to 2 million indigenous people died in the process.

8. Goguryeo-Suu Wars

2 million dead
Another violent conflict in Korea was the Goguryeo-Sui Wars, a series of military campaigns waged by the Chinese Sui dynasty against Goguryeo, one of Korea's three kingdoms, from 598 to 614. These wars (which were ultimately won by the Koreans) resulted in 2 million deaths, and the total death toll is likely much higher because Korean civilian casualties were not taken into account.

9. Wars of Religion in France

4 million dead
Also known as the Huguenot Wars, the French Wars of Religion, fought between 1562 and 1598, are a period of civil strife and military confrontation between French Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots). The exact number of wars and their respective dates are still debated by historians, but up to 4 million people are estimated to have died.

10. Second Congo War

5.4 million dead
Also known by several other names such as the Great African War or the African World War, the Second Congo War was the deadliest in modern African history. Nine African countries directly participated in it, as well as about 20 separate armed groups.

The war was fought for five years (from 1998 to 2003) and resulted in 5.4 million deaths, mainly due to disease and starvation. This makes the Congo War the deadliest conflict in the world since World War II.

11. Napoleonic Wars

6 million dead
The Napoleonic Wars, which lasted between 1803 and 1815, were a series of major conflicts waged by the French empire, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, against a multitude of European powers formed into various coalitions. During his military career, Napoleon fought about 60 battles and lost only seven, mostly towards the end of his reign. Approximately 5 million people died in Europe, including due to diseases.

12. Thirty Years' War

11.5 million million dead
The Thirty Years' War, which was fought between 1618 and 1648, was a series of conflicts for hegemony in Central Europe. This war became one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, and it originally began as a conflict between Protestant and Catholic states in the divided Holy Roman Empire. The war gradually developed into a much larger conflict involving most of the great powers of Europe. Estimates of the death toll vary considerably, but the most likely tally is that around 8 million people died, including civilians.

13. Chinese Civil War

8 million dead
The Chinese Civil War was fought between forces loyal to the Kuomintang (a political party of the Republic of China) and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China. The war began in 1927, and ended in essence only in 1950, when the main active battles ceased. The conflict eventually led to the de facto formation of two states: the Republic of China (now known as Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China (mainland China). The war is remembered for its atrocities on both sides: millions of civilians were deliberately killed.

14. Russian Civil War

12 million dead
The civil war in Russia, which lasted from 1917 to 1922, broke out as a result of the October Revolution of 1917, when many factions began to fight for power. The two largest groups were the Bolshevik Red Army and the allied forces known as the White Army. During the 5 years of the war, from 7 to 12 million victims were recorded in the country, which were mostly civilians. The Russian Civil War has even been described as the greatest national catastrophe Europe has ever faced.

15. Tamerlane's conquests

20 million dead
Also known as Timur, Tamerlane was a famous Turkic-Mongolian conqueror and general. In the second half of the 14th century he waged brutal military campaigns in Western, Southern and Central Asia, the Caucasus and southern Russia. Tamerlane became the most powerful ruler in the Muslim world after victories over the Mamluks of Egypt and Syria, the emerging Ottoman Empire and the crushing defeat of the Delhi Sultanate. Scholars have calculated that his military campaigns resulted in the deaths of 17 million people, about 5% of the then world population.

16. Dungan uprising

20.8 million dead
The Dungan Rebellion was primarily an ethnic and religious war fought between the Han (Chinese ethnic group native to East Asia) and Huizu (Chinese Muslims) in 19th century China. The riot arose because of a price dispute (when the buyer of the Huizu did not pay the required amount for the bamboo sticks to the Hancu merchant). In the end, more than 20 million people died during the uprising, mostly due to natural disasters and war-induced conditions such as drought and famine.

17. Conquest of the Americas

138 million dead
European colonization of the Americas technically began as early as the 10th century, when Norwegian seafarers briefly settled on the coast of what is now Canada. However, it mostly refers to the period between 1492 and 1691. During those 200 years, tens of millions of people were killed in combat between the colonizers and Native Americans, but estimates of the total death toll vary widely due to a lack of consensus on the demographic size of the pre-Columbian indigenous population.

18. An Lushan Rebellion

36 million dead
During the reign of the Tang Dynasty, another devastating war took place in China - the An Lushan rebellion, which lasted from 755 to 763. There is no doubt that the rebellion resulted in a huge number of deaths and significantly reduced the population of the Tang Empire, but the exact number of deaths is difficult to estimate even in approximate terms. Some scholars suggest that up to 36 million people died during the uprising, about two-thirds of the empire's population and about 1/6 of the world's population.

19. World War I

18 million dead
The First World War (July 1914 - November 1918) was a global conflict that arose in Europe and which gradually involved all the economically developed powers of the world, which united in two opposing alliances: the Entente and the Central Powers. The total death toll was about 11 million military personnel and about 7 million civilians. About two-thirds of the deaths during World War I occurred directly during battles, in contrast to the conflicts that took place in the 19th century, when most deaths were due to disease.

20. Taiping Rebellion

30 million dead
This rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War, continued in China from 1850 to 1864. The war was fought between the ruling Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Christian movement "Heavenly Kingdom of Peace". Although no census was kept at the time, the most reliable estimate for the total death toll during the uprising was around 20 to 30 million civilians and soldiers. Most of the deaths were attributed to plague and famine.

21. Qing Dynasty Conquest of the Ming Dynasty

25 million dead
The Manchu conquest of China is a period of conflict between the Qing dynasty (the Manchu dynasty ruling northeast China) and the Ming dynasty (the Chinese dynasty ruling the south of the country). The war that ultimately led to the fall of the Ming caused about 25 million deaths.

22. Second Sino-Japanese War

30 million dead
The war fought between 1937 and 1945 was an armed conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor (1941), this war actually merged into World War II. It became the largest Asian war in the 20th century, with up to 25 million Chinese dead and over 4 million Chinese and Japanese military personnel.

23. Wars of the Three Kingdoms

40 million dead
Wars of the Three Kingdoms - a series of armed conflicts in ancient China (220-280). During these wars, three states - Wei, Shu and Wu vied for power in the country, trying to unite the peoples and take them under their control. One of the bloodiest periods in Chinese history was marked by a series of brutal battles that could have resulted in the deaths of up to 40 million people.

24. Mongol conquests

70 million dead
The Mongol conquests progressed throughout the 13th century, resulting in the vast Mongol Empire conquering much of Asia and Eastern Europe. Historians consider the period of Mongol raids and invasions to be one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. In addition, bubonic plague spread throughout most of Asia and Europe at this time. The total number of deaths during the conquests is estimated at 40 - 70 million people.

25. World War II

85 million dead
The Second World War (1939 - 1945) was global: the vast majority of the world's countries, including all the great powers, took part in it. It was the most massive war in history, with more than 100 million people from more than 30 countries of the world directly participating in it.

It was marked by massive civilian deaths, including due to the Holocaust and strategic bombing of industrial and populated areas, which led (according to various estimates) to the deaths of 60 million to 85 million people. As a result, World War II became the deadliest conflict in human history.

However, as history shows, a person harms himself all the time of his existence. What are they worth.

Why is your blood shed in this war and how to emerge victorious from it.

Bloody war. Background.

Let's try together to imagine (and remember) how a hypothetical hero begins his “creative life”, suddenly deciding to become a photographer. Coming into photography, he still does not perceive it as a business: at the first stage, he wants to show himself and others “how I see this world”. So half a year, maybe a year passes (now these terms are rapidly decreasing due to powerful technological progress and, as a result, cheaper equipment and the availability of a lot of training materials in the public domain) and then there is a desire to take pictures for money. It seems that all you need is to learn how to shoot well. In this case, the quality indicator is the assessment of friends and relatives in the spirit of “oh, cool photo” and the realization that the process of pressing the shutter button is already familiar and understandable.

It seems that tolerable shots began to appear, but for some reason they are still worse than those of other, professional authors ... What's the matter? And then our hero realizes that he has not yet learned to process!

Lightroom or Photoshop is urgently downloaded, all the sliders begin to frantically twitch and various filters are applied, the pictures become poisonous green, then black and white with terrible dips.

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The entire photography market today can be conditionally divided into three levels: at the bottom are photographers who rate their services extremely cheap and / or who have recently entered photography. This is where the toughest competition is, since it is carried out only at the price level and photographers cannot offer other profitable competitive advantages. This is where what we call a real carnage happens.
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Blood War: The Beginning.

And then he says: there are a lot of photographers, and I'm so young and inexperienced, which means that all I need to do is put a minimum price tag on my services and then orders will flow like a river. And so everywhere. But when a huge number of such newcomers collide on the market, dumping occurs. Now a lot of people are ready to shoot for very little money.And this is where the war begins. Prices are falling every day.In a frantic attempt to find at least some orders, they fall into a vicious circle of constant price reduction, gaining a lot of cheap orders - after all, they also need to invest in technology and generally live on something.

Here, at the lower level, physical and emotional burnout often occurs.

There are situations when a photographer, who has shot a huge number of weddings in a season, then gets so infuriated by all this that he hates his clients ... And what kind of result can we talk about? In a shoot-shoot-shoot situation, there is no time to look at what you are shooting from the outside.Photography becomes a routine, and it's scary.

Blood War: Participants

Today, there are a lot of photographers on the market who have another profession that brings them the main income: these are managers, programmers, engineers. There are even flight attendants. People who seem to be passionate about photography, but due to their inability to sensibly build a business model, they are forced to have a stable income in another area. Photography for them is a paid hobby.
Starting to take pictures for money, they think: “well, okay, I’ll take a couple of shoots a month, but how much they pay me for it doesn’t matter, it’s still not the main income.” And again we get a vicious circle, because it is quite difficult to get out of such a convenient position at first glance. That is, you seem to be both a photographer and enjoy, but there is no need to talk about any progress.

This is how the attitude towards a photographer who does not pay attention to his own growth, who does not put clients and the market in anything, changes. After all, if someone is ready to withdraw for any money, regardless of the market, then this undermines the overall economy. These photographers have no desire to shoot better.

In addition, no one has canceled the factor of human involvement in the profession and, for example, those notorious 10,000 hours that are needed to achieve mastery, but such people simply do not have this time. In any business, an integrated approach is needed - being a good photographer, we must not forget that this is not only creativity, but also business. And in principle, the attitude should be appropriate, and not like a paid hobby that you spend 5-7 hours a month on. The psychology of the temporary worker is fatal here.

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Some people really don’t understand that in the photography business it’s incredibly important to market yourself properly: to establish marketing, to work with social networks correctly, to build relationships with potential clients. This misunderstanding leads to a bloody battle.
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Bloody war. Winning strategy.

In order for you, as a photographer, to be noticed among a huge number of the same, you need a properly organized business: marketing, the right sales system, original service, post-service, rules and strategies for working with clients so that they come back and order again and again. It is foolish to deny that the photo business stands on two pillars - high-quality photography and an established business model. But most photographers say - "bullshit all this, the main thing for me is to take a cool photo and they will find me."

In fact, a process is now taking place in which photographers who shoot poorly, but are able to sell themselves, corrupt their clients and lower their aesthetic level with all their might, which already today leads to rather sad consequences. And the price of each client in the market is now incredibly high.

Close to ideal situation in the photography business in Australia: there is a functioning self-regulating community of professional photographers – strong and large. These people understand that photography is the main thing in their life, they invest in the popularization of photography, use all kinds of modern media in order to show people what a quality photo should be. With such a close-knit community, the market is much more stable.

What is the most important thing for a client to get? Quality product. Not just photographs recorded on a disc, but photographs selected, prepared, some of which have been retouched and processed accordingly. There must always be a final tangible and original product - something that the client will never make himself. For example, he will never make a beautiful wedding photo book, but such a book is a valuable artifact that causes delight and awe when you turn its pages. These pages contain true emotions. Today, such a book is a form of media, a real relic, which is guaranteed to be able to survive for tens and even hundreds of years and be passed down from generation to generation.

Professional photographer- is the one who understands and appreciates his profession, lives off it, does everything to ensure that customers are satisfied with both the process and the quality. He necessarily strives for advanced formats of products and services, constantly looking for author's "chips" that distinguish him from competitors. Professional photographer understands the importance of both components of the photography business and deals with them equally. Professional photographer does not shun master classes and educational projects of colleagues. On the contrary, he understands that if someone is better at selling or photographing, then you need to learn from him today, because tomorrow there is a chance to become a better teacher.

By following these seemingly simple rules, a purposeful photographer will be able to break through from the lower level to the middle one in a year and a half of painstaking work. But already there it will be possible to relax a little: services will cost more, respectively, you can take fewer orders and even choose the most attractive ones. There will be time to improve the business model and even to do something that at the lower level could not be dreamed of. On vacation.

The realities of today's market situation are such that only truly professional photographers who are able to offer a unique product and high-quality service can survive in it.

End the pointless battle. Finally start earning like all great photographers.

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Number of dead: 3,500,000 people
The date: November 1799 - June 1815
Place: Europe, Atlantic Ocean, Rio de la Plata, Indian Ocean
Outcome: victory of the anti-Napoleonic coalition, Congress of Vienna

The wars that Napoleon Bonaparte waged with various states of Europe from 1799 to 1815 are usually called the Napoleonic Wars. The gifted commander began to redistribute the political map of Europe even before he made the coup of 18 Brumaire and became the First Consul. Hanover campaign, the War of the Third Coalition or the Russian-Austrian-French War of 1805, the War of the Fourth Coalition, or the Russian-Prussian-French War of 1806-1807, which ended with the famous Peace of Tilsit, the War of the Fifth Coalition, or the Austro-French War of 1809, Patriotic the war of 1812 and the war of the Sixth Coalition of European Powers against Napoleon and, finally, the campaign of the Hundred Days era, which ended with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, claimed the lives of at least 3.5 million people. Many historians double this figure.

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Number of dead: 10,500,000 people
The date: 1917 - 1923
Place: territory of the former Russian Empire
Outcome: Victory of the Red Army, Formation of the USSR

The Civil War was the result of a revolutionary crisis that struck Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, which began with the revolution of 1905-1907, aggravated during the World War and led to the fall of the monarchy, economic ruin, and a deep social, national, political and ideological split in Russian society. The apogee of this split was a fierce war throughout the country between the armed forces of the Soviet government and the anti-Bolshevik authorities.

During the Civil War, from hunger, disease, terror and in battles (according to various sources) from 8 to 13 million people died, including about 1 million Red Army soldiers. Up to 2 million people emigrated from the country. The number of street children increased sharply after the First World War and the Civil War. According to some data, in 1921 there were 4.5 million homeless children in Russia, according to others, in 1922 there were 7 million homeless children. The damage to the national economy amounted to about 50 billion gold rubles, industrial production fell to 4-20% of the 1913 level.

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Number of dead: 8 to 15 million people
The date: 1862 - 1869
Place: Shaanxi, Gansu
Outcome: uprising crushed

In 1862, the so-called Dungan uprising against the Qing Empire began in northwestern China. Chinese and non-Chinese Muslim national minorities - Dungans, Uighurs, Salars - rebelled, as the Great Soviet Encyclopedia writes, against the national oppression of the Chinese-Manchu feudal lords and the Qing dynasty. English-speaking historians do not fully agree with this and see the origins of the uprising in racial and class antagonism and in the economy, but not in religious strife and rebellion against the ruling dynasty. Be that as it may, but which began in May 1862 in Weinan County, Shaanxi Province, the uprising spread to the provinces of Gansu and Xinjiang. There was no single headquarters of the uprising, and in the war of all against all, according to various estimates, from 8 to 15 million people suffered. As a result, the uprising was brutally suppressed, and the Russian Empire sheltered the surviving rebels. Their descendants still live in Kyrgyzstan, South Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

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Number of dead: 13,000,000 people
The date: December 755 - February 763 BC
Place: Tang China

The era of the Tang Dynasty is traditionally considered in China to be the period of the highest power of the country, when China was far ahead of the contemporary countries of the world. And the civil war at that time was to match the country - grandiose. In world historiography, it is called the Ai Lushan uprising. Thanks to the location of Emperor Xuanzong and his beloved concubine Yang Guifei, the Turk (or Sogdian) in the Chinese service, Ai Lushan concentrated enormous power in the army in his hands - under his command were 3 out of 10 border provinces of the Tang Empire. In 755, Ai Lushan rebelled and the following year proclaimed himself emperor of the new Yan Dynasty. And although already in 757 the sleeping leader of the uprising was stabbed to death by his trusted eunuch, it was possible to pacify the rebellion only by February 763. The number of victims is amazing: according to the smallest account, 13 million people died. And if you believe the pessimists and assume that the population of China decreased at that time by 36 million people, then you have to admit that the rebellion of Ai Lushan reduced the population of the world at that time by more than 15 percent. In this case, if you count by the number of victims, it was the largest armed conflict in the history of mankind until World War II.

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Number of dead: 15 to 20 million people
The date: 14th century
Place: Iran, Transcaucasia, India, Golden Horde, Ottoman Empire
Outcome: Tamerlane's empire stretched from Transcaucasia to Punjab

Tamerlane (or Timur) is a Central Asian Turkic commander and conqueror who played a significant role in the history of Central, South and Western Asia, as well as the Caucasus, the Volga region and Russia. Commander, founder of the Timurid Empire (1370) with its capital in Samarkand.

For 45 years of aggressive campaigns, Tamerlane laid down, no less, more than 3.5% of the world's population in the second half of the 14th century. At least - 15 million, and even all 20!

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Number of dead: 22,000,000 people
The date: July 28, 1914 - November 11, 1918
Place: Europe, Africa and the Middle East (briefly in China and the Pacific Islands)
Outcome: Entente victory. February and October revolutions in Russia and the November revolution in Germany. The collapse of the Russian, German, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires

The hero of Francis Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby called it "a belated migration of the Teutonic tribes." It was called the war against war, the Great War, the European War. The name with which she lived in history was coined by the military columnist for The Times, Colonel Charles Repington: The First World War.

The starting shot of the world meat grinder was the shot in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. From that day until the armistice on November 11, 1918, more than 10 million soldiers and about 12 million civilians died by the most modest measure. If you come across the number 65 million, don’t be alarmed: it also included all those who died from the Spanish flu, the most massive flu pandemic in the history of mankind. In addition to the mass of victims, the result of World War I was the liquidation of four empires: Russian, Ottoman, German and Austria-Hungary.

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Number of dead: 20 to 30 million people
The date: 1850 - 1864
Place: China
Outcome: defeat of the rebels

The Taiping state occupied a significant part of southern China, under its jurisdiction there were about 30 million people. The Taipings tried to carry out radical social transformations, replacing traditional Chinese religions with a specific "Christianity", while Hong Xiuquan was considered the younger brother of Jesus Christ. Taipings were called "long-haired" because they rejected the braids adopted in the Qing state by the Manchus, they were also called hairy bandits.

The Taiping rebellion sparked a series of local uprisings in other parts of the Qing Empire, which fought against the Manchu authorities, often proclaiming their own states. Foreign states also got involved in the war. The situation in the country became catastrophic. The Taipings occupied large cities (Nanjing and Wuhan), rebels sympathizing with the Taipings occupied Shanghai, and campaigns were made against Beijing and other parts of the country.

The Taipings were crushed by the Qing army with the support of the British and French. The war resulted in a huge number of casualties - an estimated 20 to 30 million people. Mao Zedong viewed the Taipings as revolutionary heroes who rose up against a corrupt feudal system.

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Number of dead: 25,000,000 people
The date: 1644 - 1683
Place: China
Outcome:

25 million victims, or almost 5% of the inhabitants of the planet, is the price of creating an empire founded in 1616 by the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan in Manchuria, that is, present-day northeastern China. Less than three decades later, all of China, part of Mongolia and a large piece of Central Asia were under its rule. The Chinese Ming Empire weakened and fell under the blows of the Great Pure State - Da Qing-guo. What was won with blood held out for a long time: the Qing Empire was destroyed by the Xinhai Revolution of 1911-1912, the six-year-old emperor Pu Yi abdicated the throne. However, he will still be destined to lead the country - the puppet state of Manchukuo, created by the Japanese invaders on the territory of Manchuria and existed until 1945.

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Number of dead: 30,000,000 people
The date: XIII - XV centuries
Place: Asia, part of Europe
Outcome: the territory of the Mongol Empire became the largest in world history and stretched from the Danube to the Sea of Japan and from Novgorod to Southeast Asia

The number of people who died during the formation of the Mongol Empire, existence and collapse, will also not leave indifferent: according to the most optimistic estimates, it is no less than 30 million. Pessimists count all 60 million. True, we are talking about a significant historical period - from the first years of the XIII century, when Temuchin united the warring nomadic tribes into a single Mongolian state and received the title of Genghis Khan and up to standing on the Ugra in 1480, when the Muscovite state under Grand Duke Ivan III was completely freed from Mongol-Tatar yoke. During this time, from 7.5 to more than 17 percent of the world's population died.

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Number of dead: 40 to 72 million people
The date: September 1, 1939 - September 2, 1945
Place: Eurasia, Africa, World Ocean
Outcome: The victory of the anti-Hitler coalition. Creation of the UN. Prohibition and condemnation of the ideologies of fascism and Nazism. The USSR and the USA become superpowers. Reducing the role of Great Britain and France in global politics. The split of the world into two camps; the Cold War begins. Decolonization of vast colonial empires

The most terrible records are held by the Second World War. It is also the most bloody - the total number of its victims is carefully estimated at 40 million, and carelessly at all 72. It is also the most destructive: the total damage of all the warring countries exceeded the material losses from all previous wars combined and is considered equal to one and a half, or even two trillion dollars. This war, and the most, so to speak, world war - 62 states out of 73 that existed at that moment on the planet, or 80% of the world's population, participated in it in one form or another. The war was on the ground, in the sky and at sea - the fighting was fought on three continents and in the waters of four oceans. It was the only conflict so far in which nuclear weapons were used.

None of the wars can be compared in its cruelty with the civil war. According to the “dry” definition, this is between armed and organized groups within the state. The reasons for such a conflict can be very different: financial, ethnic, religious… But all this is not so important when millions die…
1 Chinese Civil War (1927-1950)

The parties to this conflict in the most populous country in the world, of course, fought for power. So much and so little, if you look at the result ... The Chinese National People's Party ("Kuomintang", leader - Chiang Kai-shek) opposed the Communist Party of China ("CCP", leaders - Xi Jinping and Mao Zedong). The war went on intermittently due to other wars (Japanese-Chinese, for example), it is noteworthy that in 1937 the parties united against a common enemy - Japan, and after the victory they again continued the internal conflict. The exact number of troops is still not known, the number of victims, according to Western historians alone, exceeds 12.5 million people. The number of victims for all the years of this civil war (including refugees, repressed and missing in torture chambers) exceeds 35 million people .... The victory in this war, as you know, was won by the communists. But at what cost? For posterity to judge.

2 "Taiping Rebellion" (1850-1864)

And again China, but 70 years earlier. The "Peasant War" or "Taiping Rebellion" began in 1850 and became the bloodiest not only in the 19th century, but in the entire previous history of mankind. Led by Hong Xiuquan, the peasantry, with numerous robbers and river pirates who joined it, opposed the Manchu Qing Empire, which at that time included China. Thanks to iron discipline, the peasants won a lot of bright victories, and in 1855 Hong Xiuquan created the "Taiping Kingdom of Heaven" in southern China (with a population of more than 30 million people in those years). The liberation war brought not only blessings, but also huge sacrifices: from 14 to 20 million people. Historians still argue about their number today, but in the end one thing is clear: due to internal strife, the Taipings lost their leader, and after that they were completely defeated. The Free Realm was destroyed.

3 Russian Civil War (1917-1922)

The largest armed conflict in Russia weakened by the First World War erupted after the October Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent transfer of power to the Bolsheviks. The "Red" Workers' and Peasants' Army and their leaders (Lenin V.I., Trotsky L.D., Kamenev S.S. and others) were opposed by the forces of the anti-Bolshevik authorities and people who lost everything as a result of the revolutionary change of power - for example, officers, Cossacks, intelligentsia, landowners, clergy and many others. Among the many leaders of the "white movement", Kolchak A.V., Kornilov L.G. can be distinguished. and For both the "reds" and the "whites" the goal of the civil war was to retain power in Russia with the subsequent possibility of embodying their state system. According to numerous historical documents and subsequent studies, Russia lost in this war from 5 million 750 thousand people or more. As a result of the victory of the Bolsheviks, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed. Whether it's good or bad, it can't be changed.

4 Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)

The bloodiest war of the 60s on the eternally seething African continent. Nigeria is a state artificially created by Great Britain, which gained independence in 1960. In those years, the population exceeded 60 million people from 300 (!) Different cultures and ethnic groups. As a result of the struggle for power, three irreconcilable peoples were determined in one country: the South-East (“Igbo”), the North (“Hausa-Fulani”) and the South-West (“Yoruba”). It is worth mentioning the discovery of large oil reserves in the Niger Delta, which only added fuel to the fire. After a three-year war, not a single participant in this terrible conflict remained in clear gain - the world powers insisted on the unity of Nigeria and the cessation of all violence (such unanimity is extremely rare today). The UN issued a corresponding document. More than 3 million people became victims of these strife.

5 Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972/1983-2005)

The first and second civil wars in Sudan lasted a total of 39 years! Both conflicts erupted between the Christian south and the Muslim north (former British and Egyptian territories, respectively). After Sudan gained independence in 1956, government offices were located in the northern part of the country. Stupid as it may seem, but this was the prerequisite for the start of the confrontation. And when the Muslims refused to form a federal system of government, "thunder struck"! In these terrible wars, more than 2.5 million people died (including from starvation) and more than 4 million became refugees ... And again, the desire to have a little more power than is, led to terrible consequences.

6 Civil war in Rwanda (1990 - 1994)

Armed conflict in Rwanda between supporters of President Juvenal Habyarimana and Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebels. The war began on October 1, 1990 with the invasion of the RPF troops into the country and officially ended on August 4, 1993 with the signing of the Arusha Accords.
However, on the evening of April 6, 1994, returning from a conference, the plane of the President of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana, was shot down by MANPADS on approach to Kigali. The president of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira, also died with him.
This led to a new outbreak of violence, followed by genocide by the RPF. According to various sources, the number of people killed in 100 days ranged from 500,000 to 1,000,000 people, of which about 10% were Hutus.
Hutus and Tutsis are ethno-social groups inhabiting Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and some other countries.

7 Haitian Revolution (1791-1803)

Formally, not a civil war, but in fact it is the most. Haiti is the only example of a successful slave uprising in history. Being a French colony (“Saint-Domingo”), Haiti in those years had more than 500 thousand black slaves and just over 40 thousand white colonists. The living conditions of blacks were so difficult that the death rate among them reduced the population by 4-7% per year. The leaders of the uprising were the blacks Francois Dominique Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines. None of the sent armies could break the resistance. And even the Napoleonic regiments were defeated. In 1804, the Republic of Haiti was established. And here begins the most stupid and monstrous, inherent in all the wars waged by mankind: Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed himself Emperor Jacques I and ordered the massacre of the entire white population of the island in the amount of just over 41 thousand people. Slave and master changed places. The total number of deaths in this war: 400-450 thousand people.

8 Burmese Civil War (1948-2012)

Burma is a state in the west of the Indochina peninsula. The official name of the country since 2010 is the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (Burma is an unpopular name in the country). Gained independence (and again from Great Britain) in 1948, and immediately war broke out. In the case of Burma, it is interesting not only who is against whom, but also what they fought for. The official government waged a 64-year war with local communists for the control and sale of opium products. Of course, in comparison with the Chinese wars, the number of victims is not so high, and according to official figures, it amounted to about 200 thousand soldiers on each side, but still, to fight for more than half a century for drug trafficking, and even at the state level?

9 American Civil War (1861-1865)

The armed confrontation between the slave-owning South and the non-slave-owning North is the essence of this historical example. Historians have identified two main problems in relations between the two parts of one country: taxes and slavery. The North raised taxes to protect its industry and advocated the abolition of slavery. In the South, on the contrary, the entire economy since the 17th century was based on black slaves, and it was more profitable for them to trade with the whole world without the tax component of the North. Having organized itself in the CSA (Confederate States of America), the South enlisted the support of Britain, France and others. The North (USA) was not supported by anyone in the world, except for one country - Russia (it would be useful for the US to remember this today). More than 2 thousand battles took place in this war, more than 620 thousand people were counted as victims.

10 Syrian Civil War (2011-….?)

One of the modern bloody conflicts in which some citizens kill others is an armed confrontation between government forces and Islamist rebel groups in Syria. The UN characterizes this war as an "open religious conflict" and nothing more. Both sides categorically disagree with this wording, but they are in no hurry to provide their explanation. On the other hand, the foreign support of the parties to the conflict is so great that it is time to recognize this as a war between states on the territory of Syria. It would seem that it is enough to stop outside help, and the war will subside by itself. But no one is in a hurry to help the Syrians come to peace. Is it necessary? What for? For what? To date, more than 450 thousand people have died, and more than 8 million have become refugees.
Let's hope this list ends: after all, it's the 21st century, it's time to resolve disputes in other ways ...