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Most Murderous Dictators in World History

The 20th century witnessed death and slaughter on an unprecedented scale. It was the century of two World Wars and of communist, fascist and military dictators who between them killed more than 100 million people.
source: The Daily Mail
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Victims
Dictator
Regime
Country
Years in Reign
60 Million Chinese starved, murdered and tortured to death
Mao Zedong
Communist
China
1949-76
40 Million starved, purged and perished in prison camps
Josef Stalin
Communist
USSR
1929-53
30 Million victims of Lebensraum and ethnic cleansing
Adolf Hitler
Fascist dictatorship
Germany
1933-45
8 Million Congolese enslaved
King Leopold II
Colonial
Belgium
1886-1909
5 Million victims of Japanese occupation during WWII
Hideki Tojo
Military dictatorship
Japan
1941-45
2 Million Armenians, Greeks and Assyruans
Ismail Enver Pasha
Military dictatorship
Ottoman Empire
1915-20
1.7 Million political opponents
Pol Pot
Communist
Cambodia
1975-79
1.6 Million political opponents/civilians
Kim Il Sung
Communist
North Korea
1948-94
1.5 Million political opponents/Eritreans
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Communist military dictatorship
Ethiopia
1974-78
1 Million Bifrans starved and soldiers killed in civil war
Yakubu Gowan
Military dictatorship
Nigeria
1967-70
800,000 Tutsis
Jean Kambanda
Tribal dictatorship
Rwanda
1994
600,000 Shi'ites, Kirds, Kuwaitis, political opponents
Saddam Hussein
Ba'ath party dictatorship
Iraq
1989-2003
570,000 political opponents
Josip Broz Tito
Communist
Yugoslavia
1945-80
500,000 commnists
Sukarno
Nationalist dictatorship
Indonesia
1945-66
400,000 political/religious opponents
Mullah Omar
Taliban
Afghanistan
1996-2001
300,000-500,000 political/personal opponents
Idi Amin
Personal dictatorship
Uganda
1971-79
300,000 Benglis in East Pakistan
General Yahya Khan
Military dictatorship
Pakistan
1970-1971
250,000 Ethiopians, Libyans, Jews, political opponents
Benito Mussolini
Fascist dictatorship
Italy
1922-45
220,000 political/military opponents and civilians
Charles Taylor
Personal dictatorship
Liberia
1989-96
210,000 political opponents
Foday Sankoh
Personal dictatorship
Sierra Leone
1991-2000
200,000 political opponents, South Vietnamese
Ho Chi Minh
Communist
North Vietnam
1945-69
150,000 Hutus
Michel Micombero
Personal dictatorship
Burundi
1966-76
70,000 peasants, political opponents
Efrain Rios Montt
Military dictatorship
Guatemala
1982-83
50,000 political opponents
Rafael Trujillo
Personal dictatorship
Dominican Republic
1930-61
35,000 political opponents
General Francisco Franco
Fascist/military dictatorship
Spain
1939-75
30,000 political opponents
Fidel Castro
Communist
Cuba
1959-2006
20,000 political/religious opponents
Ayatollah Khomeini
Islamist dictatorship
Iran
1979-1989
15,000 political/tribal opponents (still counting)
Robert Mugabe
Personal dictatorship
Zimbabwe
1982-
13,000 left-wing political opponents
General Jorge Videla
Military dictatorship
Argentina
1976-83
3,000 political opponents
General Augusto Pinochet
Military dictatorship
Chile
1973-1990
ponnuki
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Level 58
May 4, 2014
Please allow 'Leopold II' without 'king'- that's not part of the name
Beefcake
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Level 43
May 5, 2014
Sorry. Yes done.
mczyzo
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Level 48
Dec 3, 2014
Make "Chomeini" counts
PatoPotato
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Level 52
May 12, 2018
Technically, National Socialism is not Fascism. NS is a messy bunch of ideas together across the whole spectrum
Karamchand
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Level 49
Sep 28, 2018
13000 is a curious number for argentina. The official estimation is 30000, while the number of proven murders is around 9000, and those who still support the dictatorship hold on to that number. While anything in that range can't be considered wrong, intermediate estimations are not frequent, because people either fully support or fully oppose that government.
JohnnyYeet
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Level 57
May 20, 2020
Mugabe isn't really still counting anymore...
gzx5
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Level 71
Jul 22, 2020
My thoughts too, this quiz needs to update the part about Mugabe.
gzx5
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Level 71
Apr 18, 2021
I think this goes to show that Communism was even more evil than Fascism considering the former killed 105,000,000 on here and the latter claimed less than 31,000,000 on this.
Spursy1
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Level 52
Jun 11, 2022
so? That just means both of them committed mass atrocities, people dying because of genocide will always be a deplorable act.
Alexquiz17
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Level 88
Jan 21, 2023
I think it shows that China and the USSR are a lot bigger than Germany. There were no acts of murder mandated in Marx and Engels work. Interestingly, the source for this quiz is a highly suspect right-wing rabble-rouser in the UK…
Moeilijk
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Level 61
Apr 7, 2022
*Joseph
Moeilijk
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Level 61
Apr 7, 2022
Enver Pasha was never "in charge" of the Ottoman Empire. His highest rank was Minister of War.
Alexquiz17
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Level 88
Jan 21, 2023
Why is mass murder seen to be even worse when committed by a dictator? What about a democratically elected government? Have they never ordered the deaths of innocents? I suppose it’s a lot easier to pin all that guilt on one man (did you notice they are all men?) than to accept group responsibility.

Ask yourself this: How many victims did Hitler personally dispatch? All he did was ENABLE the horrible people, who still exist today, to carry out their vile desires. If you think it couldn’t happen where you live, you probably need to think again.

My taxes have contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis, Afghans and Libyans. That makes ME guilty too. Thanks a lot…

Alexquiz17
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Level 88
Jan 21, 2023
Hirohito was Japanese head of state and therefore responsible, not Tojo. This is a typical piece of Daily Fail royal boot-licking. How about Queen Victoria? Or were there no deaths as a result of British imperialism?
scdavis553
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Level 67
Apr 6, 2023
For Kim Il Sung, Kim is his surname, just like for Mao. Can you make Kim count?

Also for Guatemala Efrains last name is just Rios Montt. It only accepts the whole name, not his last names

Good quiz

MnGoblin
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Level 62
Mar 25, 2024
Hoxha? Executed 25000.
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