1939, 1968 and 2020

[Trumpocalypse]

So which has been the worst year in the last century?

On the plus side 39 had some great movies and 68 ended on a high note.

[rurallib]

1. '68 also had some good movies

2020 has had few movies at all because it is to dangerous to make them. Just sayin'

[katmondoo]

2. I would say 2020 with WW11 coming in close. Times were hard even though we were not being Bombed.

England was far worse but as a child it was hard on me.

[empedocles]

3. '68 ended on a bad note politically, that lasted for decades

1943 was a great turnaround year, that turnaround lasted for decades

[Trumpocalypse]

4. True

But the it’s the last 2 weeks of 68 that history will remember in 1,000 years.

[Igel]

5. In the last 120 years,

I'd say 1918.

It had the Spanish flu pandemic, killing over 600k Americans. Still had the rump end of WWI with its paltry 50k American soldiers dead. Embittered and motivated Hitler, wounded in 10/18.

Of course, WWI set the stage for the treaties in and obligations in Europe that led to WWII.

It had the Russian Revolution, which led to oppression and tyranny that killed more in the USSR than Hitler did in Europe, and which led to post-war tyranny and oppression in central Europe. And which led to the oppression in China from Mao, and then the non-domino effect of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. And those led to numerous proxy wars that yielded things like Ortega in Nicaragua and helped keep the two Baathist Husseins in power as well as the Qaddhafi. And which just keeps giving dividends in the form of the Great Putin and the Xi-man in China.

[world wide wally]

6. On the bright side, '68 was the beginning of a musical Renaissance

[greenjar_01]

7. What was bad about 1968?

[Music Man]

8. MLK and RFK assassinated,

height of the Vietnam War, Nixon elected, intense divisions within families. Lousy year.

[CTyankee]

9. dunno how old you are but 1968 was a year of real social unrest...the Dem national convention in

Chicago being critical.

I guess it could be viewed as a watershed or the beginning of the end of social justice movements but they keep on happening anyway so...

[Sancho]

10. I would go with 1968...but 2020 isn't over yet!

[Buckeyeblue]

11. In 1939 Hitler's final solution was in full swing

In 1939 Jim Crow south was accepted as matter of fact.

IMO, there is no doubt which was the worst year out of the 3 mentioned.

[Trumpocalypse]

12. Actually the final solution

didn’t start until the Wannsee conference in January 1942.

[Stuart G]

13. 1929, 1929, 1929-Lots of death due to poverty created. (also incredible pain created)

[stillcool]

14. 2020 isn't done with us yet...

[Initech]

15. 2020 still has a chance to redeem itself.

And that is by getting Il Douche out of office! If we don't accomplish that it really will be the worst year ever.