Biggest failures in history

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  1. mdhookey Well-Known Member

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    The Great Leap Forward.

    One of the most titanic failures in human history. Anywhere from 15 to 46 million perished.

    Sadly, the Great Leap Forward was followed by another epic clusterfuck, the Cultural Revolution.
    mdhookey, Oct 21, 2011
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    Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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  3. battleearl Well-Known Member

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    The League of Nations was actually a great idea, but the problem was that it was not much more than an idea...
    battleearl, Oct 21, 2011
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    Manhattan project got you only three nukes. I doubt you could produce another one for a long time (few months?) But yea...
    D3adtrap, Oct 21, 2011
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    Roman Emperor Otho, who ruled for a grand total of three months.
    UnitRico, Oct 21, 2011
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    How was he a failure? He defeated his rivals, declared himself dictator of rome and then eventually retired to write his memoirs. Sounds like a success to me.
    Spartacus, Oct 21, 2011
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    Stalinification

    It costed millions of people of various ethnicities their lives. This is the reason i hate Stalin, he is a genocidal paranoid maniac. No offense JosefVStalin (William Downing the Third).
    misiame, Oct 21, 2011
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  8. battleearl Well-Known Member

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    Emperor Elagabalus... He tried to build up his own cult in Rome, married vestal virgins and that guy pissed the citizens of Rome off. He should know that he could lose his head within 4 years as emperor.
    battleearl, Oct 22, 2011
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    Well first of all when sulla went away he's chances didn't last he always had to chance them back, and when he won Mithridates and came back to Rome and started to kill people (he's opponents etc) but he also started kill rich people just because they were rich... And he also marched to Rome that started this domino effect, that when a politician didn't get power in the senate he could just march to Rome, because why not if sulla could why I couldn't. So sulla started to speed up the fall of the republic.
    And also he didn't support the Italian allies to gain citizenship
    I mean he wasn't the most failure of history.

    Sorry about my English I hope you can read what I just wrote XD
    thelistener, Oct 22, 2011
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  10. Romulus211 Proconsul

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    Bay of Pigs....
    Romulus211, Oct 22, 2011
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  11. battleearl Well-Known Member

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    Elagabalus was eventually decapitated together with his mother. They were thrown into the Tiber river. He was a great temple priest, but a terrible emperor.
    battleearl, Oct 22, 2011
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    Mongolian attempted invasions of Japan.

    Not necessarily. Granted it failed eventually, but it worked up to the point that a traitor let the enemy in through the gate. Otherwise, it did turn back some nomadic invasions.
    Imperial1917, Oct 22, 2011
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  13. yuri2045 A Marines Biologist

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    But what about the millions of people that died building it? Not to mention the astronomous costs for the Emperor to build it, it didn't actually meet its purpose, because later the Mongols got through it like if it was no obstacle, don't know if it worked before the Mongols though.
    yuri2045, Oct 22, 2011
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    Well, it did turn into a pretty spectacular and family-friendly tourist attraction 500 years later :p
    mdhookey, Oct 22, 2011
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    None of this portrays him as a failure.
    slydessertfox, Oct 22, 2011
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  16. yuri2045 A Marines Biologist

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    Lets hope it stays up for centuries, so people can walk in an awesome wall made in China. =P
    yuri2045, Oct 22, 2011
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    yes it does, he was one of the biggest leadership failures of history :)
    thelistener, Oct 23, 2011
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  18. Romulus211 Proconsul

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    Romulus211, Oct 23, 2011
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    No, no he wasn't, and if you weren't so biased you would probably see that too. I don't know what your problem with him is, but you are clearly connecting him to the fall of the republic, which imho was inevitable at that point in history.
    Warburg, Oct 23, 2011
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    Viking Socrates, Oct 23, 2011
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