History is full of moments that are hard to believe, no matter how many times we read about them. We want to hear from you - what historical event still feels unreal to you?
#1
The H*******t. Not because I think it didn't happen or anything but because I can't believe Hitler was able to get away with killing millions of innocent people. However, I'm now witnessing firsthand how easily brainwashed the masses can become.
37points
#2
That the US has a Cheeto for president. FOR THE SECOND TIME!!!
26points
#3
That in the space of just over 100 years, we've gone from inventing radio to flying a remote helicopter on Mars.
21points
#4
The principle of "comfort women" that Asian women suffered during the Second World War. It is beyond comprehension. It is an inhuman tragedy that is still too little known by people.
20points
#5
January 6th.
19points
#6
Slavery.
17points
#7
January 6th. Unbelievable, and shame on anyone who support(ed/s) anyone who was there and didn’t do their part to stop it.
17points
#8
The 1921 Tulsa Race M******e. The idea that a group of White people were so outraged at there being a successful Black community that they not only brought guns, but some of them used crop dusting planes to drop incendiary devices on the businesses and people.
16points
#9
911. Not American, but I still find it unbelievable—not in a conspiracy way, either—that these massive, iconic buildings collapsed, and simply aren't there either.
15points
#10
The massacres in Rwanda in 1994 — perhaps because I was a child at the time — the descriptions of the barbarity I saw on television seemed like something I couldn’t fully grasp. An ethnic cleansing that resulted in the death of 1 million people in just 100 days, an average of 10,000 people per day, mostly with machetes and other crude weapons.
The accounts of violence, especially against pregnant women and children, were so cruel they felt impossible to believe. Even today, I wonder what kind of collective hate and madness could lead a group of people to commit such atrocities.
The accounts of violence, especially against pregnant women and children, were so cruel they felt impossible to believe. Even today, I wonder what kind of collective hate and madness could lead a group of people to commit such atrocities.
13points
#11
The Mariupol Opera Theatre, March 16, 2022. They wrote "Children" on the pavement so that the russians wouldn't bomb it.
11points
#12
9/11 and I saw it all unfold from my office window on 42nd and Park. I still cannot watch any of it on TV. Cry every year.
11points
#13
Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
The way it happened, the way it was "managed", the consequences on people's health decades later.
The way it happened, the way it was "managed", the consequences on people's health decades later.
10points
#14
Everyday when I wake up here in the US and see the latest actions our t**d-in-chief and his clown show.
10points
#15
Hiroshima and the H*******t.......such evil.....
9points
#16
Man in the moon...
3points
#17
October 7th.
0points
#18
The birth, life, death and resurrection of JESUS CHRIST...
-6points