Genghis Khan. A great patriotic hero or evil mass murderer ?
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There's never an easy answer to questions like this. Except for rare examples (usually people with personality disorders, such as sociopaths), you cannot classify a person as good or evil.\n\nGengis Khan did lead his people in a brilliant campaign, militarily speaking. He also ordered the slaughter of thousands, the pilleage of hundreds of villages and settlements, and all sorts of actions that would be considered good by his own people and evil by his enemies.\n\nI'd say he's neither hero nor murderer. He was a great leader, and he took measures to rule with a strong fist, a necessity at his time to control his troops and to send a message to the other nations. \n\nGengis Khan had a project that can be read either as a wish to unite the world (under his rule) or as a desire to dominate it. It all depends on which side you're on.
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No, you got it mixed up. Stalin killed about as many if not more people than Hilter, Not Kruschev.
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The man will go down in history as one of the greatest American Presidents. The reason? For staring down evil! You should have some respect for one of the greatest leaders this world has ever seen.
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Adolph Hitler\n\nHitler controlled Germany from 1933–45. His fascist maneuverings for world domination, his dream of a Teutonic master race subjugating all non-Germanic peoples, led to a criminality unmatched by any leader this millennium. Responsible for the genocide of six million Jews, the slaughter of Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, Communists, and other "undesirables" and "decadents," as well as the invasion of Europe and the preposterous ambition to rule the world, Hitler defies any more sophisticated explanation than categorical evil.\n\n\nJoseph Stalin\n\nTotalitarian leader of the U.S.S.R. from 1929–53, Stalin crushed the Soviet peoples with his megalomania and repressive version of communism. His adopted name meant "man of steel," and the term Stalinism has become the definition of a cruel, draconian socialism. He sent millions of Soviets not conforming to the Stalinist ideal to forced-labor camps, and he persecuted his country's vast number of ethnic groups—reserving particular vitriol for Jews and Ukranians. Soviet historian Roy Medvedev estimated that about 20 million died from starvation, executions, forced collectivization, and life in the labor camps under Stalin's rule. Another 20 million survived imprisonment and deportation.\n\nMao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)\n\nA despotic ideologue who controlled China from 1949–76, Mao subjected the Chinese people to his massive social experiments, all of which went catastrophically amok. Early in his reign, he encouraged free speech in an attempt to avoid the mistakes of Stalinism. When criticism of his regime arose, however, his true sentiments—absolute intolerance of dissent and opposition—emerged, and he retaliated savagely. When he launched the Great Leap Forward—his economic plan to forge an industrial revolution in China—it resulted in the worst famine of the century, described as a "totally unnecessary, entirely man-made holocaust that claimed between 23 million and 30 million lives." He then masterminded the Cultural Revolution, which, despite its ideological claim to "purify" communism of bureaucrats and elitists, was a vehicle for settling Mao's personal scores and shoring up power. During the nightmarish decade when culture was equated with depravity, millions—most of whom were guilty of the crime of belonging to the bourgeoisie—were imprisoned, tortured, and murdered as suspected class enemies.\n\n\nPol Pot\n\nRadical Marxist leader of Cambodia from 1975–79, who butchered his own people. The four years of nightmarish Khmer Rouge rule led to the state-sponsored extermination of citizens by its own government. Between 1 million and 2 million people were massacred on the "killing fields" of Cambodia or were worked to death through forced labor. Pol Pot's radical vision of transforming the country into a Marxist agrarian society led to the virtual extermination of the country's professional and technical class—anyone wearing glasses, for example, was murdered. Pol Pot died in 1998 without remorse, declaring, "My conscience is clear."\n\nTamerlane (Timur)\n\nTamerlane's life (c. 1336–1405) was spent conquering the inhabitants of Asia. A Turkik Mongol, his goal was to make his capital, Samarkand, the most impressive in Asia. Yet he rarely stayed at home, preferring to vanquish and destroy additional lands. Legendary for his ruthless savagery and lack of mercy, Tamerlane massacred entire populations—including the 80,000 residents of Delhi— and razed whole cities, leaving behind nothing but rubble. And he had a macabre sense of architecture—building towers out of the skulls of his victims.\n\nMaximillien Robespierre\n\nRobespierre was the mastermind of the Reign of Terror (1793–1794), the dark underside of the French Revolution that perverted its lofty ideals of democracy with fanaticism and inhumanity. Robespierre, leader of the infamous Committee of
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Through the eyes of US Resident : He will kill us all\n\nThrough the eyes of Indian : He is a great guy and helping India a lot\n\nThrough the eyes of an unbiased person : He is a strong and able Russian leader who improved the economy, trying to end Islamic Terrorism and trying to rebuild communist Soviet Union
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I am not politician but I find your question is very easy to answer. Thank you for asking and you deserve a good answer cause your question is a good question, not only because it has good intension to wake up sense of humanity but also it deals with our day to day lives in 21st century.\nIf we say Hitler then we are dealing with history,I pressume not all of us we were there to witness, I fear there was too much propoganda against him, If we talk about Sadam Huseein, we can blame on his ignorance but our great fear should be diverted to the man who is a leader of a great country USA, a democratic elected president, we witnessed his leadership and his destruction to humanity in our times, as I am writting to you this message someone (very innocent) is dying somewhere...!\nGeorge Bush (May God save us from this man)
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he helped lower the population of an over populated country....(by murdering millions of his countrymen)
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They have a history of glorifing such acts. muslim authers have written wioth pride the expolits of their heroes-\n\nTamerlane himself defines them candidly and bluntly while others do so through their chroniclers.\n\n(source: The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India - By K S Lal).\n\nTo start with he stormed the fort of Kator on the border of Kashmir. He ordered his soldiers "to kill all the men, to make prisoners of women and children, and to plunder and lay waste all their property".\n\nNext, he "directed towers to be built on the mountain of the skulls of those obstinate unbelievers". Soon after, he laid siege to Bhatnir defended by Rajputs. They surrendered after some fight, and were pardoned. But Islam did not bind Timur to keep his word given to the "unbelievers". His Tuzk-i-Timuri records: "In a short space of time all the people in the fort were put to the sword, and in the course of one hour the heads of 10,000 infidels were cut off. The sword of Islam was washed in the blood of the infidels, and all the goods and effects, the treasure and the grain which for many a long year had been stored in the fort became the spoil of my soldiers. They set fire to the houses and reduced them to ashes, and they razed the buildings and the fort to the ground."\n\nBy now Timur had captured 100,000 Hindus. As he prepared for battle against the Tughlaq army after crossing the Yamuna, his Amirs advised him "that on the great day of battle these 100,000 prisoners could not be left with the baggage, and that it would be entirely opposed to the rules of war to set these idolators and enemies of Islam at liberty". Therefore, "no other course remained but that of making them all food for the sword". Tuzk-i-Timuri continues: "I proclaimed throughout the camp that every man who had infidel prisoners should put them to death, and whoever neglected to do so should himself be executed and his property given to the informer. When this order became known to the ghazis of Islam, they drew their swords and put their prisoners to death."\n\nsource: Kashmir Islamic Atrocities in India.
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Definitely. Gandhi was a corrupt man. Sadly the contributions of great freedom fighters are overlooked. I don't agree American or Britons knowledge of Gandhi, because they know nothing about him.
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In the book written by John L Anderson he claims that Che was killed by a  Cuban Ameican CIA trianed individual named Felix Rodriguez. That book is very well reearched so I am proned to believe the author's claim. Do I think his death was justified?  He was rather ruthless at times, but that is not for me to decide. I guess you can say that by living the revolutionary life, he had to know his end would not be pretty. I will say this, he did not die a coward.
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I dunno. I would probably have to say Pol Pot. He was the leader of Cambodia during the late seventies. During his few years in power he set up an extremely oppresive communist government, and killed over 2,000,000 people. I'm not too certain about the details, you should look them up, but i have heard that he was actually a little bit canabalistic. I do know that he was obsessed with making people afraid of him, and he was later killed by his own officers. \n\nAnother one would probably be Stalin. He was an extremely paranoid leader of the soviet union. He killed 24,000,000 people. That's 4 times as many people as hitler killed. The only reason we didn't care about stalin is because he was on our side at the time.(this was during WWII)
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I think he had a horrible childhood and became mentally ill towards the end. I mean the control had something to do with it but some of the things this guy did were unspeakable. I can't figure out why the people that did his killings and tortures forced themselves to do it unless they enjoyed it too. I know you do what your leader tells you but I would think all it would have taken was a bunch of people to just blow his a$$ away .
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In a way, NO because of what had happened to those people who got killed during his regime. On the other side, YES,  because he is human after all and he should be treated like one. No one can judge a person except God... he gave us life and let him take that as well.\n\nI am not against any religion at all. I have so many muslim friends and they really are very nice people - family oriented people. \n\nSTOP the KILLING! We are all BROTHERS.
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And blanket of human hair. Thats why he is remembered as the worst leader in history.\n\nSome muslims like him because they hate jews and Hitler also hated them.\n\nIf there is no hate in this world, no innocent will die before time.
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Hitler I think.  At least he was the most evil person that was able to execute his plans.
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Of course He hates mass murderers. The Quran says that murder is one of the worst sins a person can do, and it is a bad deed that will send people to Hell on the Day of Judgement. Killing one single person is bad enough, imagine the multiplied punishment for mass murder. In Islam, the holy Kaaba in the city of Mecca, which Muslims pray to five times a day, is less sacred than the blood of a single innocent Muslim. That shows how much emphasis human life is given in Islam, and why murder is one of the worst sins.\n\n"Whosoever kills a human being without (any reason like) manslaughter, or corruption on earth, it is as though he had killed all of mankind. And whoever saves a life it is as though he had saved the lives of all mankind." (The Holy Quran 5:32)\n\nDo not kill a soul which Allah has made sacred except through the due process of law ... (The Holy Quran 6:151)
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Isn't it supposed to be based on the conqueror Vlad The Impaler in Romania? Google it, you will see....\n\nFictional character based on a real evil person.