The numerous Great Leaps Forward that all failed and caused mass starvation, plus the Cultural Revolution, make Mao the unfortunate holder of worst dictator ever. So wrote his personal doctor whose opinion I’m copying in The Private Life of Chairman Mao.
“It is a competition between Hitler, Stalin and Mao Zedong. Hitler was resposible for 20-25 million deaths, Stalin the estamates vary from 20-60 Million and Mao 40-72 Million. So it looks like a tie between Mao and Stalin with Mao the probable biggest killer.”
From another source…..
Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) 49-78,000,000
Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) 23,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine’s famine)
Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) 12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians WWII)
Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908) 8,000,000
Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) 5,000,000 (civilians in WWII)
Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20) 1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20)
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) 1,700,000
Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) 1.6 million (purges and concentration camps)
Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) 1,500,000
Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) 1,000,000
Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) 900,000
Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) 800,000
Suharto (East Timor, West Papua, Communists, 1966-98) 800,000
Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88) 600,000
Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987) 570,000
Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) 500,000? (Chinese civilians)
Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) 400,000
^^^
the book in which the doctor said that, I meant
Just returned.
Can we go back to geese?
You are talking about real evil.
The numerous Great Leaps Forward that all failed and caused mass starvation, plus the Cultural Revolution, make Mao the unfortunate holder of worst dictator ever. So wrote his personal doctor whose opinion I’m copying in The Private Life of Chairman Mao.
When you think of it, those numbers are staggering, not only collectively but each case by itself…truly stggering and unimaginable.
“By infinitejester on November 18, 2010 3:25 PM
Worst overall dictator by sheer number of total deaths was Mao.”
Yes, clearly:
http://i52.tinypic.com/mb1kxk.jpg
Numbers vary…..
“It is a competition between Hitler, Stalin and Mao Zedong. Hitler was resposible for 20-25 million deaths, Stalin the estamates vary from 20-60 Million and Mao 40-72 Million. So it looks like a tie between Mao and Stalin with Mao the probable biggest killer.”
From another source…..
Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) 49-78,000,000
Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) 23,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine’s famine)
Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) 12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians WWII)
Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908) 8,000,000
Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) 5,000,000 (civilians in WWII)
Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20) 1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20)
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) 1,700,000
Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) 1.6 million (purges and concentration camps)
Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) 1,500,000
Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) 1,000,000
Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) 900,000
Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) 800,000
Suharto (East Timor, West Papua, Communists, 1966-98) 800,000
Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88) 600,000
Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987) 570,000
Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) 500,000? (Chinese civilians)
Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) 400,000
i put up my christmas lights yesterday. is that too early?
i usually wait til after thanksgiving, but felt like putting them up earlier this year.
*rob*
Worse than Pol Pot????
Worst overall dictator by sheer number of total deaths was Mao.