Worst dictator in human history

[Jbell93]

I personally believe that Stalin was the most malevolent dicatator there has been. Most people I know don't even recognize his name, I have to spell out his crimes for them. To me that means that he got away with so much more than Hitler, and still nobody knows.

Stalin also killed I believe 40 million people in total, either through famine or through the process of trials, held as examples to his peoples' courts(1).

(1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge#Number_of_people_executed)

 

[Daedalus1942]

Robert Mugabe's pretty bad. He's making it impossible for people in Zimbabwe to even live. I mean a 400% inflation on EVERYTHING? that's just inhumane. no-one can live like that...
He really is a tyranic prick.

 

[Axeli]

Mussolini. I mean... hell, what did he ever achieve?

Besides creating the idealology he achieved fuck all to my knowlage.

Yeah... I'm pretty sure dictatorship was something that happened as knee-jerk reaction to being quickly forced to democracy during time when middle class was scared to death of communism.

Point remains, I'm joking and Mussolini's super nation was all but talk.

 

[Kollega]

I would say Stalin because he killed 15mil of his own people... but then again, he did industrialize Russia and usher it into the power it's known as today. So i'de say it's a fair trade. I mean as he always said " No people. No problem.

Fair trade? 50 million people died under his rule, directly because of his purges or by proxy (famine, war). 50. Million. People. It's roughly equal to population of South Korea, and more than population of Spain. And their deaths were very, very unpleasant. No matter what anyone says, such price for progress is unacceptable. Not to mention he completely twisted ideals of communism for his own ends. And you are a jerk.

I just wish everyone else would study US history so that they realize that while its pretty easy to argue that Bush belongs in the bottom ten, he's nowhere near the bottom five, nor does he have the mental capacity or willpower for evil.

Agreed. Bush was stupid, not evil.

 

[MikeOfThunder]

ummmmm.....no-one has said Hitler.....?

Probably because he is the most obvious one to choose and people like to think their different. lololol!

Yeahhh Hitler was somewhat bad.

However i would say that Pol Pot was probably the worst at it.

Mainly because... Stalin and Hitler, despite their evil atrocities to mankind, they did manage to create a working system and atleast had powerful nations due to their 'evilness'.

Pol Pot however, was clearly an idiot with his urban genocide and his killing of any intelligence. I mean his country (not people) did not benefit in the least! So i would say Pol Pot was the worst at it.

 

[Axeli]

Mussolini. I mean... hell, what did he ever achieve?

Besides creating the idealology he achieved fuck all to my knowlage.

Yeah... I'm pretty sure dictatorship was something that happened as knee-jerk reaction to being quickly forced to democracy during time when middle class was scared to death of communism.

Point remains, I'm joking and Mussolini's super nation was all but talk.

I'm talking about fascism not authoritarianism and totalitarianism.

Tends to go pretty hand in hand with dictatorship. Honestly - though there's chance I'm wrong - someone would have come up with practically the same things he did. Fascism wasn't a domino effect, but something that developped in a lot of places at the same time.

 

[thepopeofatheism]

Sam Walton

 

[Lavi]

Stalin because he was basically an idiot.

 

[Firia]

I would say Stalin because he killed 15mil of his own people... but then again, he did industrialize Russia and usher it into the power it's known as today. So i'de say it's a fair trade. I mean as he always said " No people. No problem.

Sorry, but Russia is a second rate power now days. And Stalin didn't make Russia a player on the global level, Hitler did by invading Russia. Before that time Russia had trouble defeating a country like Finland.

It's still a Nuclear super power. It may not be the force it was back in the days of the Cold War, but it's still a nation to be feared and respected.

 

[SimuLord]

Stalin's got nothing on Genghis Khan for deaths-to-people ratio. The Mongols wiped out every village from Mongolia to Hungary, fercrissakes! The only reason they didn't kill people in numbers like Stalin and Mao is because in the 13th century there weren't that many people to go around.

I think he was too busy raping, pillaging and murdering to be a dictator.

That's what made him so great. He didn't sit around some palace somewhere and let others do his dirty work for him. That sumbitch got shit done.

 

[Srkkl]

Stalin-Hitler tie, as my U.S. teacher always said, "Don't be fooled about Stalin because he's on the winning side, Him and Hitler are sharing a cup of lava in the extra crispy part of hell" Favorite teacher ever.

Also someone asked why Hitler/Wife commited suicide and he began to explain "Because the Russians would do bad things to the Wife, Do bad things over and over." Again, greatest teacher.

 

[Apocalypse Tank]

I would say Stalin because he killed 15mil of his own people... but then again, he did industrialize Russia and usher it into the power it's known as today. So i'de say it's a fair trade. I mean as he always said " No people. No problem.

Sorry, but Russia is a second rate power now days. And Stalin didn't make Russia a player on the global level, Hitler did by invading Russia. Before that time Russia had trouble defeating a country like Finland.

I think AkJay is trying to say even though during Stalin's regime many people died, his actions have made Russia more industrialized than before. The 2nd World War saw Russia rapidly preparing itself in the face of inevitable war, and to this extent the manufacture of arms and armor have improved greatly. Relocated factories from the West (located now in Siberia/ center Russia) were producing great amounts of up-to-date gear, and though the Red Army was poorly equipped from the outset of the conflict, by the war's end everything they maintained were up to date.

 

[Pingieking]

Mao.

I don't actually care about the death toll. Humans are easily replaceable. What I do care about is his cultural revolution. Out of all the dictators that China has had over it's 5000 year history (many of whom were not of Han ethnicity), Mao came the closest to actually killing China. The revolution went great lengths of erasing the identity of being culturally Chinese. It was an attack on everything that is China; an attempt to completely wipe out its culture and go back to being a relatively clean slate.
The title of "Yang Huang Zi Sun" (or "Descendants of the Yen and Yellow Emperors") was passed on to the people who fled to Taiwan, but then we did a bit of a cultural revolution ourselves during the late 90s and early 2000s with an anti-Chinese backlash in Taiwan. China is recovering, but I think it's extremely sad and depressing when the people of China has to learn about Chinese culture through Europeans, Americans and Japanese. The last one being especially insulting, given their actions in WW2.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

The question is simple, the answer somewhat harder: Who was/is the worst dictator in human history? Hitler for the holocaust? Stalin for the gulags? Pol Pot for the killing fields? Or an ancient dictator like Vlad the impaler or Genghis Khan?

I myself tend to go with Stalin, as the most people died under his regime in modern history.

Stalin was a bad dude(around 60 million killed), but Mao was wayyyy worse(even though he technically wasn't a dicator) he was responsible for the deaths of nearly 70 million of his own people

 

[LogicNProportion]

North Carolina Governor Robert Neon. That dude is harsh.

...I live in NC. << XD

Regardless, I chalk one up to Mao.

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Or if we're playing Civilizations, Ghandi.

 

[Obrien Xp]

I mean he started a world war ffs.

No because, Hitler wasn't the worst dictator, sure he was bad, but there's worse than him.

My Vote on Stalin/Mao.

 

[Donttazemehbro]

Stalin, Mao and Hitler