The so-called Great Helmsman reveled in his blood-letting, boasting, “What’s so unusual about Emperor Shih Huang of the China Dynasty? He had buried alive 460 scholars only, but we have buried alive 46,000 scholars.” Mao was referring to a major “accomplishment” of the Great Cultural Revolution, which from 1966-1976 transformed China into a great House of Fear. Anyone who got in his way was done away with - by execution, imprisonment or forced famine.įor Mao, the No. Mao’s rule, with its economic mismanagement and continual political upheavals, also spelled poverty for most of China’s untold millions.Īccording to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Most of his victims were his fellow Chinese, murdered as ‘landlords’ after the communist takeover, starved in his misnamed ‘Great Leap Forward’ of 1958-61, or killed and tortured in labour camps in the Cultural Revolution of the Sixties. Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao (Decem– September 9, 1976), was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.Ĭhina’s so-called ‘Great Helmsman’ was in fact the greatest mass murderer in history. (See also Top 30 Most Evil Women in History) (See also Top 25 Most Evil People in History)
Here is a list of top 26 most evil dictators and mass murderers of all time. Scroll down for the leaders themselves, listed in order of the numbers who died as a result of their rule. Fifteen of our political leaders in the last 130 years have been the architects of the most horrific genocides, systematic murders, blockades, brutal wars, and policy reforms history has ever recorded. Some people make horrible decisions, others are just bad presidents, a few are bloodthirsty, many are extremists, a couple are warmongers, and all of these guys are a mix.
It was the century of the Holocaust and two World Wars of communist, Nazi, fascist and military dictators who between them killed more than 200 million people. The 20th century witnessed death and slaughter on an unprecedented scale.
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