Below is a list of the most destructive world leaders in the last 100 years. I got most of the numbers from here and if you want more information on the person in question, just click on his name and Wikipedia will bring you up to speed. This list is obviously up for dispute considering how violent the last 100 years have been. And no, I won’t put George W. Bush on this list (even though he probably belongs on a related list).
1. Mao Tse Tung (China), 1949-1976
- Deaths caused Under his watch: 14 to 43 million from starvation during the Great Leap Forward/Cultural Revolution.
2. Adolph Hitler (Nazi Germany), 1939-1945
- Total Deaths Responsible for: Over 46 million as a result of the Second World War.
- Including between 11 and 16 million systematic killings during the Holocaust.
3. Joseph Stalin (USSR), 1929-1953
- Deaths caused Under his watch: Approximately 20 million.
- Up to 14.5 million starved to death
- At least one million executed for political offences
- Approximately five million sent to the “Gulag Archipelago” never to return alive.
4. Kim Il Sung (North Korea), 1948-1994
- Total Deaths Responsible for: About three million killed in the Korean Wars.
- At least One million needlessly starved to death due to the economic zeal of his regime.
5. Mohamed Suharto (Indonesia), 1967-1998
- Total Deaths Responsible for: Up to two million killed following a supposed coup attempt in 1965 Over 250,000 deaths following the Invasion of East Timor in 1975.
6. Pol Pot (Cambodia), 1975-1979
- Total Deaths Responsible for: One to three million (between a 1/4 and 1/3 of the population).
7. Théoneste Bagosora (Rwanda), April-July 1994
- Total Deaths Responsible for: Between 800,000 and 1,000,000 Rwandan’s in a period of four months.
8. Saddam Hussein (Iraq), 1979-2003
- Total Deaths Responsible for: Approaching 2 million.
- Up to 340,000 Iraqi and 730,000 Iranian combatants during the Iran-Iraq War.
- U p to 200,000 during the Gulf War
- Over 100,000 Kurds killed or “disappeared”.
- Up to 150,000 Shia Muslims and Iraqi dissidents killed during his reign.
9. Ante Pavelić (Croatia), 1941-1944
- Total Deaths Responsible for: 300,000 to 1,000,000.
- Up to 30,000 Jews
- Up to 29,000 Gipsies
- Between 300,000 and 600,000 Serbs
This blog is simply a description of what I see around me in the world today. Using whatever relevant knowledge I have acquired throughout my life time, my intention is to continue writing articles that are interesting to me, with opinions and biases that are absolutely my own. 
Lest anyone doubt that Evil does exist in the world all they need do is look at your list. Lest anyone believe that Communism/Socialism is merely a competing economic philosophy — again, all they need do is look at your list.
I don’t think this article is making any direct references to Communism & Socialism or whether or not they are vile social systems. Communism and Socialism are elements of societal models, which in our world have been more susceptible to the evil this article refers to - corrupt totalitarian dictatorships. The instantiations of communism in our world have historically been more susceptible to corrupt/totalitarian dictatorships because of the way in which the philosophies behind these governments believed power needed to be wrestled from the bourgeoisie. Please note that none of Germany, Rwanda, Indonesia, Iraq or Sudan are/were Communist/Socialist regimes.
You’ve left one out.
Winston Churchill: 4 million starved to death 1943, in Bengal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
You forgot the #1 deadliest leader.
Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia!
Not only did he execute Emperor Haile Selaisse I , Lion of Judah and King of Kings, he executed the Ethiopian Orthodox Patriarch and performed the worse case of genocide in Africa’s history…. the “Red Terror”. Between 1975-1978 2.3 million Ethiopians were killed and the families of the victims had to pay for the bullets used.
During this same regime, He blocked food aid and over 1 million Ethiopians died during the 1980’s famine.
Forgetting this dictator was a big mistake.
This bloody murderer is now living comfortably with his twisted friend in Zimbabwe…. Mugabe!
You forget the butcher of Ethiopia smart PM Meles Seytanawi. Who killed 100thousands of people.
I ageee with Ethiopia girl. You forgot Mengistu Haile-Mariam. He definately should make the list. Top three maybe
how about the facist Italian Duche Mossolonni who killed millions of people in Ethiopia,Libia,somallia and Eretirea. Review your sellection again.
yeah, the incumbent ethiopian primier should have been in the list. he has been killing thousands of people since he came to power.
what about the one-party regime of Eritrean president Isaias Afewerki?? he killed many thousands of people. in fact, most of the ethnic Kunama people of Eritrea have to be absorbed by american government because of the genocide in eritrea. also please check information about the “Eritrea-Ethiopia war” on 1998.
the eritrean dictator isaias afewerki started the war which led to around 100,000 people dead. dictator isaias afewerki also came to power by starting a war that killed 200,000 people from 1960 to 1990
and the last few years, Isaias afewerki has declared evangelical people of Eritrea as illegal people to live so the small other genocide is ongoing
Hey saleh,
The reason you forwarded tells who you are. You are a haf-wit. You must be crazy to put the word genocide(when you can;t even define it). And you are an idiot to put those 100,000 brave souls as dead, they are martyrs. Isayas like most (not you ofcourse)fought for Eritrean independce. I would agree with you if the term’deadliest leaders’ implies the ‘devoted leaders’. And one more thing there is no so called evangelical Eritrean. we just have 4 religions. period.
Where is Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia on the list. He should have been 10th in the list. Mengistu Hailemariam of Ethiopia could be 15th so it is Ok if the list is only up to tenth.
Where’s G.W. Bush? Or should we just put a can of oil up in his place?