[FLT-bird]

If we’re going to go by the amount of evil somebody actually accomplished....OK. Fair enough.

By that measure:

1. Mao Tse Tung is easily the most evil person ever. He starved at least 35 million and maybe as many as 50 million Chinese people to death and that’s to say nothing of a few million more murdered right after the Communist takeover and a few million more during the “Cultural Revolution”.

2. Again an easy choice. Stalin. He murdered way more than Hitler. The estimates are 25-30 million in his death camps, through deliberate mass starvation inflicted on the Ukranians and others, the firing squads that were a constant hallmark of his regime, etc.

3. Then Hitler. It was more like 11 or 12 million who died in his death camps. People always mention the Jews and yes many were murdered there but there were a lot more victims than just Jews.

4. Probably Genghis Khan comes next. The death toll he inflicted will never be known but it was staggering.

5. Maybe Alexander? Other “great conquerors” like Napoleon, Tamerlane, Julius Caesar, Attila the Hun etc racked up staggering death tolls. This is what prompted Lord Acton to rightly observe that most “great” men are really evil men.

[Lurker]

They forgot Pol Pot. While the number of people he murdered is comparatively small his ideology and methods absolutely earn him a place on the list.

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[Fiji Hill]

In Mongolia,Genghis Khan is considered a hero. The country's main airport is named after him.

[oh8eleven]

Then Hitler. It was more like 11 or 12 million who died in his death camps.
More than 50 million people died in WWII. Had there been no Hitler, there would have been no WWII.
I'd also add Pol Pot to this list.

[DesertRhino]

When you get to the point of counting bodies in the tens of millions... there is no degree of “worse” or “better”, or “more evil” between megamurderers.

That’s like saying Ted Bundy is not quite as bad as John Wayne Gacy because he only killed 30, when Gacy killed 33.
And the ones who always breathlessly rush in to tell us Hitler wasn’t as bad as Stalin or Mao and helpfully point out that Jews weren’t anything special would be the ones to tell us Jeffery Dahmer only killed 17, so he wasn’t near as bad as Bundy and Gacy.

Think about it.

But very good quote from Lord Acton.

[Teacher317]

Tough to go by raw body counts, since killing is so much more efficient nowadays, plus much bigger populations exist to be erased. Killing a million in 1970AD is much easier than killing a million in 2000BC.