Worst dictator in human history

[maddawg IAJI]

I'm torn between Mao,Vlad the Impaler (AKA Dracula) and Stalin. They were all just so horrible and they killed so many of there own people. On the other hand though, Stalin and Mao ended up doing good for there country as well. Vlad just acted like an asshole and murdered everyone for fun.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Just on numbers

Mao killed 73 million. Worst part: Sheer Numbers
Pol Pot: 2 million but 21% of his country. Worst Part: Targetting Intellectuals above all others, Intellectuals defined as "having a good job or wearing glasses"
Hitler: 21 million. Worst part: Systematic Slaughter, Rape, Robbery.
Stalin: 43 million. Worst part: Deportations weren't counted.
Kublai Khan had a far highter death toll than Genghis @ 19 million vs 4 million.

Against the rest of them: Hitler even fails at being a dictator.

Not to forget Lenin (4 mil), Tojo (4 mil), Chiang Kai-shek (10 million), Leopold of Belgium(10 million)

 

[open trap]

My MOM...........

 

[Searleski]

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

Mussolini did start to modernise Italy by draining the Potine Marshes and turned them into decent Farmlands and by encouraging the expansion of Italy's Motorway system. However history will always remember him for Italy's poor military preformance during the War.

In my opinion the worst Dictator in history is Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu. He was responsible for the large numbers of Orphan's in the country. His regieme was exceptionally corrupt (His wife was deputy leader), oppulent (just look at the People's House in Bucharest)and as a result wasted money 'hand over fist'. It may not have been the most bloody dictatorship, but it was the worst because it was so inept and left the country in a state resembling a third-world country. It was only due to Soviet backing that it managed to last so long.

 

[CouchCommando]

Pol Pot the whole year zero thing was just fucking absurd.

 

[yaik7a]

Hitler ... because of Hitler and Nazism and such.

 

[Lordpils]

Kim Jong Il, he's insane and he has absolute control over the lives of people who worship him as a god.

 

[Coonskin]

A difficult choice.

I'd have to say Stalin. While the consensus is that Mao killed more people than Stalin or Hitler, more or less with programs such as the Great Leap forward that led to a lot of deaths the problem wasn't malicious intent like the deaths caused under Stalin or Hitler, but stupidity. As someone pointed out to me the other day, Mao actually believed a lot of the stuff he said, while Hitler and Stalin were just evil.

As for Hitler he was evil and all but
1. Stalin almost defiantly killed more people
2. While Hitler's rule certainly had long-lasting implications after he was gone, because of Stalin we got the cold war, which shaped US foreign policy till the early 1990's, leading to such things as the Arms Race, McCartyhism, etc.

 

[martin's a madman]

Not really a dictator, but Franz Joseph I. If he'd just taken the assassination of his son on the chin and not declared war, WW1, the Treaty of Versailles, WW2, the Berlin Wall etc. might have been delayed or prevented altogether

Well, it would have happened anyway. Delaying it wouldn't have solved anything except armies would be stronger and therefore more people would die. Not that I particularly care.