People tend to say "bruh" when something absurd happens. But would you say there's a historical moment that deserves such a description or reaction? Granted, many absurd things have happened throughout history (and we don't need to look back many years to find them).
There have been fights between cities because of buckets, people who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki disasters, and a secret army masquerading as a giant wooden horse. Pretty crazy stuff when you think about it, isn't it?
One netizen collected all these incredible moments in one place when they asked: "What historical event can accurately be referred to as a 'bruh moment?'" Are you curious to find out, too? Scroll down and see the most interesting answers for yourself!
#2
When 100 russian soldiers who barely survived poison gas attack(and were close to d**ng anyway) charged against 7000 german soldiers in WW1. The russians were so abnormal mutilated by the gas that the germans thought they were attacked by zombies. Spoiler alert: the russians won.
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51points
#3
When Teddy Roosevelt was s**t before he was supposed to give a speech.
The bullet was slowed down by the folded up 50-page speech, so it did not k**l him. The bullet was inside him and he was bleeding, but he still went on and have the speech, which was 84 minutes long.
He started it off with "It takes more than that to k**l a Bull Moose" and showed the crowd the speech with the hole in it. That's a pretty "bruh moment" and humiliating to your would-be assassin.
The bullet was slowed down by the folded up 50-page speech, so it did not k**l him. The bullet was inside him and he was bleeding, but he still went on and have the speech, which was 84 minutes long.
He started it off with "It takes more than that to k**l a Bull Moose" and showed the crowd the speech with the hole in it. That's a pretty "bruh moment" and humiliating to your would-be assassin.
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49points
#4
“What happened in Tiananmen Square?”
Chinese Government: “Nothing”
“Bruh”.
Chinese Government: “Nothing”
“Bruh”.
47points
#5
In WW1 when everyone stopped fighting on Christmas and came out of the trenches and drank together in no man's land.
46points
#6
When the Germans during WW1 disguised one of their ships as the British's HMS Carmania so they could wreck some ships without being recognised as a German ship. As the German ship went into the open seas, it met the real HMS Carmania which then immediately sank the German's disguise. Bruh.
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37points
#8
300 Australians trapped in a coastal African city held off 1000s of Italians for months during WW2.
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33points
#9
The Native Americans being forced out of their homes.
33points
#10
That pirate who had a bounty on him, so he put a bounty on the guy who put it on him, making it a real 'No u' moment.
mclv7gaming:
Jean Lafitte for anyone interested.
mclv7gaming:
Jean Lafitte for anyone interested.
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31points
#11
Thomas Fitzpatrick drunkenly stealing a plane on a bet.
YoungXanto:
Twice!
The second time was better though because he was bragging about stealing a plane and landing it in the street in Manhattan and some other drunk was like, "bullsh**!".
Rather than argue with this man, he just went right ahead and did it again, right then and there.
Anyone insane enough to steal a plane and land it in Manhattan once is also insane enough to do it twice. And most certainly won't stand for having his word questioned by some drunk at a bar.
YoungXanto:
Twice!
The second time was better though because he was bragging about stealing a plane and landing it in the street in Manhattan and some other drunk was like, "bullsh**!".
Rather than argue with this man, he just went right ahead and did it again, right then and there.
Anyone insane enough to steal a plane and land it in Manhattan once is also insane enough to do it twice. And most certainly won't stand for having his word questioned by some drunk at a bar.
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30points
#12
The destruction of Khwarezmia by Genghis Khan.
Genghis Khan forged a peace treaty with the Shah of Khwarezmia. After the treaty was signed, the Khan sent a 500-man caravan to officially establish trade ties with the empire. However the governor of the Khwarezmian city of Otrar had the entire caravan arrested, claiming they were conspiring against the empire. The Khan then sent three ambassadors (one Muslim and two Mongols) to the Shah negotiate the release of the caravan. The Shah had the Mongol ambassadors shaved bald and the Muslim ambassador beheaded before sending them back to the Khan. This angered the Khan, who considered ambassadors to be "sacred and inviolable."
So he led the Mongols over the Tien Shan mountains and in less than two years the entire Khwarezmian civilization was completely wiped out. As each city in the empire was captured, the defenders were e**cuted, women and children given to Mongol soldiers as slaves, artisans captured and sent back to Mongolia as servants, and the cities sacked. When the city where the Shah had been born surrendered, the Mongols broke the dams on the nearby rivers, causing a flood that literally wiped the city off the map.
TL;DR, never break a peace treaty with Genghis Khan.
Genghis Khan forged a peace treaty with the Shah of Khwarezmia. After the treaty was signed, the Khan sent a 500-man caravan to officially establish trade ties with the empire. However the governor of the Khwarezmian city of Otrar had the entire caravan arrested, claiming they were conspiring against the empire. The Khan then sent three ambassadors (one Muslim and two Mongols) to the Shah negotiate the release of the caravan. The Shah had the Mongol ambassadors shaved bald and the Muslim ambassador beheaded before sending them back to the Khan. This angered the Khan, who considered ambassadors to be "sacred and inviolable."
So he led the Mongols over the Tien Shan mountains and in less than two years the entire Khwarezmian civilization was completely wiped out. As each city in the empire was captured, the defenders were e**cuted, women and children given to Mongol soldiers as slaves, artisans captured and sent back to Mongolia as servants, and the cities sacked. When the city where the Shah had been born surrendered, the Mongols broke the dams on the nearby rivers, causing a flood that literally wiped the city off the map.
TL;DR, never break a peace treaty with Genghis Khan.
29points
#13
Both nukes the US dropped on Japan but especially Nagasaki.
anonymous:
There was a guy who was in Hiroshima for the first b**b and then took a train to work in Nagasaki just in time for the second one. And he survived.
anonymous:
There was a guy who was in Hiroshima for the first b**b and then took a train to work in Nagasaki just in time for the second one. And he survived.
24points
#14
When the Scottish people thought to invade England when they were infected by the plague because they were weaker. Then taking it back to their own country, and giving everyone the plague there.
24points
#15
The complete and total overk**l of Grigori Rasputin.
anonymous:
Overk**l??? if they hadn't thrown him into the river rolled into a rug with his hands restrained (which he got out of (although thats just a theory)) after poisoning him with 5 times the poison to k**l a regular man (which he complained of an upset stomach) and then sh**ting him 4 times. I dont think it was too overkill. seemed to be just right for that legendary man.
anonymous:
Overk**l??? if they hadn't thrown him into the river rolled into a rug with his hands restrained (which he got out of (although thats just a theory)) after poisoning him with 5 times the poison to k**l a regular man (which he complained of an upset stomach) and then sh**ting him 4 times. I dont think it was too overkill. seemed to be just right for that legendary man.
23points
#16
The Winter War. Stalin was paranoid about a potential attack from the Northwest, so he decided to try and take the snowy nation of Finland, and suffered heavy casualties. Finland eventually signed a ceasefire and lost some territory, but the USSR lost roughly 300,000 men, compared to the Finn's 65,000.
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23points
#17
The War of the Bucket. There was a long standing tension between rival cities and eventually some thought it would be brilliant to steal a single oak bucket from the center of the city. When the city threatened war unless the bucket was returned, they laughed it off. This caused a war where hundreds d**d. The victors still have the bucket on display in their city.
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22points
#18
When Ronald Reagan was giving a speech in Berlin and a very loud balloon popped. Everyone thought it was a gunshot and he had the nerve to say “you missed me”.
20points
#19
The Bubonic Plague was a magnitude 10 bruh moment.
DankkaM:
"Let's go into one building to pray this horrible epidemic stops. And take your family too, because in a church theres always room for people to get infected"
DankkaM:
"Let's go into one building to pray this horrible epidemic stops. And take your family too, because in a church theres always room for people to get infected"
19points
#20
**This war is the last war of mankind it will end the other wars**
and then ww2 happened.
and then ww2 happened.
19points