Who was the worst dictator in history?
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Who was the worst dictator in history?
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Adolf Hitler, hands down.
Saddam Hussein
Saddam used chemical weapons on his own people. That is the definition of ultimate evil.
Thousands of women and children killed purely for Saddam's twisted pleasure.
I am. I don't even have a country…
Not really. Although, he is an icon in popular culture which represents evil, we have had at least several worse dictators.
Pol Pot is the most evil dictator in history.
I think Genghis Khan wins if we control for inflation
I agree with Hitler.
There just wasn't one single one.
Ghengis Khan, Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Mao Tse Tung . . . . . . . The list is long, and the future may hold others.
Just my not-so-humble opinion. B)
I'm going with Stalin
Agreed with what others have already stated … but have we forgotten Mussolini?
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
If you are only considering contributing deaths:
try these stats:
Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50)49-78,000,000
Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39)23,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine's famine)
Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945)12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians WWII)
Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908)
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79)1,700,000
Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94)1.6 million (purges and concentration camps)
Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78)1,500,000
Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970)1,000,000
Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982)900,000
Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994)800,000
Suharto (East Timor, West Papua, Communists, 1966-98)800,000
Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88)600,000
Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987) 570,000
Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002)400,000
Mullah Omar – Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001)400,000
Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979)300,000
Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1970-71) 300,000 (Bangladesh)
Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Libya, 1934-45; Yugoslavia, WWII)300,000
Found here:
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html
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Opps…
forgot
This is a quotation from Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887:
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Well if we are going to talk about deaths caused let's not forget Abraham Lincoln whose leadership resulted in nearly 700,000 deaths in the War of Northern Aggression (known by some as the American Civil War).
Although, I would not call Lincoln a dictator.