10 Evil People Who Did Great Things

10 Great Things Done by Evil People 10) Saddam Hussein  Free Healthcare and
Schooling Saddam Husseins tenure as President of
Iraq was a blood stained one. More than 6,000 Iraqi citizens were publicly
executed by the dictator, and many more were tortured in a variety of horrific ways, including
being dropped into vats of acid or having their limbs burned off. Historians estimate that Saddam killed an
average of 125 civilians for every day he was in power. So yeah, not a nice dude.

But, despite his violence towards many of
them, Hussein also attempted to make the lives of Iraqis better. He allowed his people to visit hospital without
charge, and introduced free and compulsory schooling for the nations children. Saddam also worked hard to ensure that his
population was literate, launching the National Campaign for the Eradication of Illiteracy. Before the campaign, only 52% of Iraqis could
read and write.

Today 84% of can. 9) Napoleon  The Napoleonic code Short, obsessive and just a little crazy. No, not Tom Cruise - Napoleon Bonaparte! The Nineteenth Century French Emperor was
seemingly unstoppable on the battlefield, conquering Italy, Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands
and more. His attempted invasion of Spain was marked
with particular violence.

On one occasion, in retaliation for the murder
of two French soldiers, Napoleon rounded up a hundred random Spanish civilians and had
them shot. His empire eventually collapsed, but not until
over 2 million people had died in the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon may have been ruthless on the battlefield,
but he was far from a tyrant when off it. He enforced the Napoleonic Code across
his empire, entitling his citizens to equal rights, private property and religious freedom.

He also removed inherited titles and privileges
from the upper class, filling positions by merit rather than birth right. Unfortunately, Napoleon only gets half-points
because these new freedoms didnt apply to women. 8) Pablo Escobar  Generosity As fans of Narcos will know, Pablo Escobar
was a Colombian drug lord who rose to prominence in the 1980s. Known as the King of Cocaine, Escobar
supplied an estimated 80% of all the cocaine in America, and maintained his near monopoly
with extreme violence.

Escobars favorite hitman, John Popeye
Velasquez, personally killed over 300 people. He also offered up a $250,000 bounty for anyone
who killed a drug enforcement agent. Needless to say, Escobar had money to burn. By 1990, he was the richest criminal in history,
with a net worth of over $30 billion.

Thats more than the current GDP of Estonia,
Uganda or Nepal. Much of this was blown on absurd vanity projects
like his fleet of yachts or his private zoo. But Escobar didnt just squander all his
cash on personal excess. He earned a reputation as a sort of Robin
Hood, giving huge sums of money to the poor.

In one small town, Moravia, he built over
1000 homes for the locals. In slums across Colombia he funded the construction
of schools and football pitches. Despite being gunned down in 1993, Escobar
remains a hero to many of the poor of Colombia. 7) General Butt Naked  Redemption and charity In the 1990s Joshua Blahyi [bla-yee] made
a name for himself as a deadly Liberian warlord.

Specifically, the name he made for himself
was: General Butt Naked, so called because he and his army of child soldiers would fight
well butt naked, believing it made them immune from bullets. Blahyi himself estimates that his army killed
no less than 20,000 people. Not only that, but as a believer in witchcraft
he would frequently dabble in human sacrifice and cannibalism - eating the hearts of murdered
children to gain their power. Since 1996 Blahyi has changed dramatically,
becoming a devout Christian, speaking against war, and even putting some clothes on.

In 2016 he started working for the charity
Journeys Against Violence and has already rehabilitated 50 child soldiers, training
them in new skills like farming and construction. And in case youre wondering: no, he doesnt
go by the name Reverend Butt Naked. 6) Ted Bundy  Suicide Hotline One of the most famous serial killers of all
time, Ted Bundy, confessed to 30 different murders when he was finally caught in 1975. He decapitated 12 of his victims and would
return to the scenes of his crimes and sleep with his victims bodies until they were
too decayed.

However, for a while Bundy preferred saving
lives to taking them. While studying Psychology at the University
of Washington, he volunteered for the night shift on Seattles Suicide Hotline. There he used his manipulative personality
for good, convincing people not to kill themselves. Apparently, Bundy was reasonably skilled at
this.

According to crime writer Ann Rule, who also
volunteered for the hotline, Bundy definitely succeeded in saving multiple lives while working
there. 5) Genghis Khan Religious Freedom Genghis Khan was the brutal tribal leader
of the Mongolian Empire. He was so ruthless in his conquests that his
tribe slaughtered an estimated 40 million people. At the time, that amounted to 10% of the worlds
population.

When Khan died, the Mongols had amassed the
largest empire that had ever existed. Despite this willingness to kill tens of millions
of people, Khan was surprisingly relaxed about religious freedom. Though he personally believed in the ancient
Asian religion of Tengriism [ten-gree-ism], he was interested in other beliefs and enjoyed
discussing them with religious scholars. More importantly, he allowed his millions
of subjects to practise any faith they wanted, and even gave religious bodies tax-free status.

Khans tolerance wasnt shared in Europe
or the Middle East, where the Crusades were still ongoing. 4) Al Capone  Soup Kitchens Al Capone was an American gangster who achieved
nation-wide infamy for illegally bootlegging booze into Chicago during the prohibition
of alcohol. Yes, there was a time during which booze was
illegal. Dark, dark times.

Capone was cunning and never tied to any serious
crime himself. However, its thought he ordered the deaths
of as many as 32 people. Just like Escobar, Capone enjoyed a reputation
for generosity. During the Great Depression, he set up one
of Americas first Soup Kitchens, serving soup, coffee, and donuts to as many
as 120,000 unemployed Chicagoans.

On Thanksgiving, his kitchen served beef stew
to 5,000 men, women, and children. The kitchens were almost certainly a cynical
attempt by Capone to clean up his image, but it didnt matter to the hungry and poor
of Chicago, many of whom claimed he was doing more to help the needy than the US government. 3) Muammar Gaddafi  Welfare Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi rose to power
in a bloodless coup, but his regime didnt remain bloodless for very long. Gaddafi spent the 42 years of his rule crushing
dissent and repressing his people.

During the Arab Spring his troops killed over
1,000 of his own citizens in a last ditch attempt to cling onto power. But for any Libyans happy not to challenge
Gaddafis reign, life could be pretty good. Gaddafi provided the Libyan people with free
healthcare, education and electricity. He also subsidised housing and transport.

Perhaps most impressively, Gaddafi helped
put an end to the widespread droughts that his nation faced, building The Great Man-Made
River. Before NATO bombed it in 2011, this was the
worlds largest irrigation system and supplied drinking water to 70 percent of Libyas
population. Despite these expenses, Gaddafi ran Libya
without collecting any national debt - although that probably has less to do with Gaddafis
leadership and more to do with the fact that Libya sits on top of $60 billion worth of
oil. 2) Adolf Hitler - Animal Rights It wont surprise you to hear that Hitler
was not a great guy.

He was a firm believer in eugenics and the
racial superiority of the German people, ordering the murder of six million Jews in concentration
camps across Germany. What may surprise you, though, is that Hitler
was an ardent defender of animal rights. As soon as the Nazis rose to power, they started
enforcing laws to improve the lives of animals. Hitler added the humane treatment of animals
to the national school curriculum, established numerous nature reserves, required that all
slaughterhouses used anesthetic, and made mistreating pets a crime with a minimum sentence
of two years in jail.

Germany was also the first nation to ban vivisection,
which involves operating on live animals. Thats great, although it doesnt really
make up for the whole World War 2 thing. 1) Caligula  Helped the people You had to be pretty violent for the Ancient
Romans to think you went too far. These were the people whose idea of entertainment
was having wild animals eat criminals in giant arenas.

Yet, Caligula stood out - even for a Roman. According to Suetonius [sweat-ohn-ee-uss],
the third Emperor of Rome routinely killed people just for his own amusement. He once ran out of criminals to have killed
in the arena and so ordered an entire section of the crowd to be eaten instead. But it didnt start out that way.

During his first six months, his reign was
incredibly popular. He offered tax breaks to his poorest citizens. He provided huge public shows for the public
at his own expense. He allowed many unjustly exiled citizens to
return, and let people write historical documents, something that had been banned under Tiberius.

After falling seriously ill in 37AD, though,
Caligulas attitude changed, and he became the despot people still know about today. Thanks  for watching, those were 10 Great Things Done
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