7. Mao Tse-tung, 1893-1976 (China)
Mao Tse-tung, also transliterated as Mao Zedong. He is also commonly referred to as Chairman Mao. He was 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.
Anyone who got in his way to create a new “socialist” China was done away with, by execution, forced famine or imprisonment.
Under his leadership, industries were put under state control, and farmers were organized into collectives. Any opposition was swiftly suppressed.
He saw all intellectuals as threats-probably as the number one enemy.
He is most likely the greatest mass murderer in history. At least, 45 million (60 million by some estimates) people were worked, starved or beaten to death in China, within four years. To put that in perspective, the total recorded number of deaths in World War Two was 55 million.

Mao is still the most celebrated and revered figure in the Chinese Communist Party.

8. Pol Pot 1925-1998
On April 4, 1975, Pol Pot led the Communist forces of the Khmer Rouge into the capital in Cambodia. This was the beginning of a vicious four year regime. He aimed to create an agrarian utopia by relocating people into the countryside. Others were put in "special centers" where they were tortured and killed.
Deadly cleansings were carried out throughout Cambodia, to abolish all that was left of the “old society.”
Atrocities were carried out against minorities, Muslims were forced to eat pork, and those that refused were executed.
Doctors, teachers, and other professionals were forced to work in fields to "reeducate" themselves. Anyone thought to be an intellectual of any sort was killed. It was normal for people to be condemned for wearing glasses or for just knowing a foreign language.
About 1.5 million Cambodians were overworked, executed or starved to death in just four years. To put that into perspective, Cambodia had a population of about 8 million people.
In 1978, Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion, in order to end the Khmer Rouge border attacks. In January, 1979, Phnom Penh fell, and Pol Pot was deposed.
He would continue to launch guerilla attacks for the next 17 years, and died of a heart attack in April, 1998.

9. Idi Amin Dada, c.1925-2003 (Uganda)
Idi Amin Dada was the third President of Uganda. He ruled from 1971 to 1979, after overthrowing the government of Milton Obote. He was a very violent dictator. Amin joined the British colonial regiment the King's African Rifles in 1946, serving in Kenya and Uganda.
He presided over a very vicious regime in which an estimated 300,000 civilians were massacred. In 1972, he expelled all Indian and Pakistani citizens numbering between 50,000 to 70,000, which resulted in the collapse of the economy seeing manufacturing, agriculture, and commerce came to a halt.
Amin carried out mass executions of the Acholi and Lango-Christian tribes that had been loyal to Obote, therefore he saw them as threats.
His rule of terror came to an end in 1979, when exiles from Uganda and Tazanians, took control of the capital, Kampala.
Idi Amin fled, and lived out the reminder of his life in Saudi Arabia.

10. Adolf Hitler, 1889 -1945 (Germany)
Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, in 1889. He was a German politician, and was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, also known as the Nazi Party.
He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
Deaths and mass executions took place in concentration camps. Prisoners were forced, and were used in construction projects. They were subject to torture, starvation and horrific brutalities. Many were used in painful medical experiments.
He initiated fascist policies that led to World War Two, and the deaths of an estimated 11 million people, including the mass murder of an estimated 6 million Jews.
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. This led Britain and France to declare war on Germany two days later.
By early 1945, Hitler realized that Germany would not win the war. The Soviets had beaten his troops back, and the Allies were advancing into Germany. Hitler was informed of the execution of the Benito Mussolini, and fearing to fall into the hands of enemy troops, Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945. Berlin fell on May 2, 1945, and five days later, Germany surrendered to the Allied forces.

11. Joseph Stalin, 1878-1953 (USSR)
Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union. He ruled for more than two decades, which was a reign of terror, but he also helped to modernize Russia. Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed general secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922.
Anyone in the Soviet Union who showed devotion to any religion was brutally murdered, and their families were often also additionally killed to deter others.
Stalin had nearly a million of his own people executed. Millions more became victims of forced labor, famine, massacre, deportation (about 2 million were forcibly deported), detention and interrogation.
A quota was established for the number to be executed, and the number to be arrested, in some cases.
The destruction of the kulak class triggered the Ukrainian famine, during which 3 million to 5 million people died of starvation.
He was a psychopath, who modeled himself, after Ivan the Terrible.
On March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died of a stroke.

12. Ante Pavelic, 1889-1959 (Croatia)
Ante Pavelić, also known as the ‘Butcher of the Balkans’ was the product of the turbulent politics and extreme nationalist passions that gave the Balkans in the inter-war years, the nickname of the “cockpit of Europe.” He was a Croatian fascist dictator who led the Ustaše movement and the Independent State of Croatia, established in parts of occupied Yugoslavia during World War II with the support of both Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
Ante Pavelic shared the ideological and theoretical assumptions that Hitler did.
He killed between 300,000 to 1, 000, 000 people, including 30,000 Jews, about 29,000 Gypsies and between 300,000 to 600,000 Serbs, out of a country of about 2 million people.
He died in Madrid, Spain, from wounds sustained in an assassination attempt, two years earlier.

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