Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, Mao or Pol Pot?
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Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, Mao or Pol Pot ??\n\nAll the above are tyrants .. dictators .. murderers\n\nthe first .. killed more than 20 millions .. mostly his own ppl.\n\nthe second .. killed more than 50 millions during his WW2 of 6 yrs .. he even ordered destruction of Germany itself on his last days in the Bunker\n\nthe third Mao .. maybe some 3-4 millions .. all were his enemies\n\nthe 4th .. PSYCHOTIC leader who killed his own ppl. about 4 millions .. and made a Pyramid of their skulls
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The Chinese, without much doubt. However, some believe it was the Japanese. You can read more about it in the links below, and then decide for yourself.\n\njdmorningreport
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A couple of other respondents were right.  Hitler killed 11 million people, including 6 million Jews.  \n\nStalin was by far worse:\n\nJoseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)\n\nOne of the most powerful and murderous dictators in human history, Stalin was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century. His regime of terror caused the death and suffering of tens of millions of his subjects, but he was also in charge of the war machine that played a significant role in the defeat of Hitler's armies during World War II.\n\nA Georgian by birth, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili grew up in modest circumstances and only learned Russian at school. He studied at a theological seminary but never graduated, instead embarking on a life as a professional revolutionary. This included robbing banks to fill the Bolshevik party chest and spending years in Siberian exile.\n\nStalin was not one of the decisive players in the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917, but he soon rose in the ranks. In 1922 he was made General Secretary of the Communist Party, a post which was not considered particularly significant at the time but nevertheless became the base from which he launched his bid for supreme power.\n\nAfter Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin promoted himself as his political heir and gradually outmanoeuvred rivals. Unlike Trotsky, Stalin believed that socialism could be introduced in one country without being accompanied by a world revolution. By the late 1920s, Stalin was effectively the dictator of the Soviet Union.\n\nHis forced collectivisation of agriculture cost million of lives, while his industrialisation programme made his country militarily strong but provided little material welfare for its citizens. Moreover, the population suffered immensely during the Great Terror of the 1930s, during which Stalin and his henchmen purged the Party of 'enemies of the people' and sent millions to the Gulag system of slave labour camps.\n\nThe purges severely depleted the Red Army officer corps, and despite many warnings, Stalin was ill prepared for Hitler's massive attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941. His political future hung in the balance, but he recovered to lead his country to victory. As usual with Stalin, the human cost was enormous, but that mattered little to him. His general disregard for human lives included his own family - his eldest son perished in German captivity, his second wife committed suicide, and many in-laws were caught up in the terror.\n\nAfter World War II, the Soviet Union entered the nuclear age and ruled over an empire which included most of Eastern Europe. Increasingly paranoid, Stalin himself became a victim of the fear he had induced in his subjects. Having suffered a stroke at night, he lay helpless on his floor for many hours, because no one dared disturb him. He died on 5 March 1953.\n\nA large part of the Soviet population reacted to his death with hysterical grief, but soon his former comrades-in-arms denounced his policies of terror and persecution. Today, Stalinism is a symbol of totalitarian rule and limitless personal power. His birth home in Gori forms part of the Stalin Museum, a bizarre and somewhat eerie Soviet monument to one of history's most bloodthirsty tyrants.
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Well Evolution is the key to Hitler's belief, Natzism, Communism, Humanism - Evolution is I believe the most dangeruos theory - religion  out their. I have alot of scary infomation on the subject. So I'll let you decide on that one.
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probably Hitler of Germany.....not a good person but still was a very powerful leader .....at the present time though its probably George Bush same as Hitler not a very good person but still very powrful.\nalso napolean was quite a strong leader.
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Fidel Castro\nBatista was a dictator
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China. Because they are in transition from purely communistic economy to a blended communist/capitalist. \n\nSorry not 500 words.
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Hitler..even though hes dead, he still makes an impact on the present
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Jews. There isn't even any call for second place, by comparison.\n\ntracy - Hitler didn't "persecute" the Jews. He built factories specially designed to gather them together, extract things like gold fillings, hair, all their property, work them to exhuastion, starve them, then exterminate them in large numbers as quickly as possible and dispose of their remains efficiently. So tell me again, how did Saul persecute the Christians compared to that?\n\nChristians just WISH they had some of the persecution of the Jews because of their masochistic obsession with martyrdom. Truth is, most of the time Christians were being persecuted, it was by other Christian sects.
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Which Revolution?\nAmerican, French, Russian, Chinese?
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Hitler. he was like be his people, and the German economy thrived under his dictatorship. Oh yeah...he also knew how to occupy a country or two.
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these were, still are the worst: 1. hitler 2. pol pot 3. idiot amin 4. argentine military juntas 5. serbian leaders responsible for ethnic cleansing... list goes on...
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One only needs to read "Animal Farm" (by George Orwell). On the surface it appears to be just another fairy tale with animals, but it's actually an allegory about the Communist Revolution. The various characters in the book represent real historical figures or organisational entities.
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Well, if you want a civil rights leader there's Martin Luther King Jr. But, if you're wanting a really interesting project, you can do your report on German Dictator, Adolf Hitler. That's just two of the thousands of possibilities.
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Best Dictator? Bit of an oxymoron don't you think?
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Adolph Hitler was by far the worst person in recorded history. Saddam and Osama are tyrants, and George Bush is taking the blame for everything he was advised to do.
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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