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Who are the 10 most hated traitors in history

2022-05-28 12:38:05Histori SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Who are the 10 most hated traitors in history
The Kiss of Judas, painting by Caravaggio

The ten most hated and famous traitors of all time, from those of ancient history to the spies of the Cold War.

Have conspired against their homeland, denied their community or turned their backs on their family, traitors always fill the pages of history books. A selection of the ten most hated traitors of all time, whose name has even become synonymous with betrayal.

Trachis Ephialte (5th century BC) . We know very little about the Ephialtes, but it is believed that it was a herb originating from Thrace in Greece.

His fault?

He helped the Persians bypass the passage of Thermopylae in 480 BC, thus condemning Leonidas's 300 famous Spartan warriors to be massacred during battle. Herodotus tells that Ephialtus, after betrayal, was later killed by one of his fellow citizens.

Ugolino della Gherardesca (1220–1289) . A nobleman from Pisa (Italy), Count Ugolino joined the opposing faction of the Guelphs and was later accused of favoring the rival cities of Pisa. He was later jailed and sentenced to death.

In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri places him in the circle of hell reserved for the traitors of the Homeland, suggesting that during his imprisonment Ugolino's children begged him to eat their bodies.

La Malinche (XVI Century). Malinche was sold as a slave after the death of her father, and later became a translator in the service of the Spaniards as well as the wife of their leader Hernán Cortés, who arrived in Mexico in 1519.

La Malinche he helped the invaders to subjugate the Aztec civilization, so much so that in Latin America the word malinchista means "sold" to foreigners.

Brutus and Cassius (1st century BC). Although Julius Caesar had pardoned both during the civil wars, Mark Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus were among the main inspirers of the plot to assassinate him.

Defeated later by Octavian and Marcus Anthony at the Battle of Philip, the two "Caesaricids" committed suicide in 42 BC.

Judas Iscariot (1st century BC) . After joining the disciples chosen by Jesus Christ, he "sold" his teacher at the Sanhedrin for 30 silver denarii, signaling his identity to the guards with the famous kiss.

Repentant, he later hanged himself on a Cerci siliquastrum tree, the tree of Judah that still bears his name today.

Mir Jafar (1691-1765). Mir Jafar Ali Khan Bahadur, after arriving in the court of Bengal (now Bangladesh), crossed over to the English and during the Battle of Plassey, in 1757, took from them the title of nabob, facilitating their conquest of India.

After ups and downs, he died of old age, hated by his countrymen.

Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) . The charismatic general during the American War of Independence (1775-1783), was one of the main responsible for the victory of the settlers against the British in Saratoga (in 1777), but in the following years he wore the "red jacket" turning his back on the cause of independence. .

Protected but despised by the young lords, he managed to save himself by fleeing to England.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand (1754-1838). The French aristocrat held leading political positions during the Revolution and the Napoleonic regime, constantly betraying Napoleon himself. He remained in office even after the fall of the latter, and became the protagonist of the subsequent congress of Vienna (1815), representing the Bourbon monarchy.

Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945). After becoming an emblem as a collaborator of the Nazis, Vidkun Quisling, the former leader of a Norwegian far-right formation, in 1940 supported the German occupation of his country and became the head of the puppet regime installed by Hitler in Norway.

Prosecuted for high treason, he was sentenced to death in 1945.

The Fifths of Cambridge (XX Century). Excellent academics of the English University of Cambridge, but traitors to the homeland, starting in the 1930s and for most of the Cold War, Anthony Blunt, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and John Cairncross were spies and information was given secret to the Soviets, while all managed to escape.

Spying on them was among the most successful Russian espionage operations.


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