[Ditto]

You want some numbers? Try these. None were Christians and most were Socialist or Marxist Utopians of one form or another.

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The 20th Century's Bloodiest Murderers

Rummel's estimates from "Death By Government."

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Ruler	Country	Years	Total killed
Joseph Stalin	Soviet Union	1929-1953	42,672,000
Mao Tse-tung	China	1923-1976	37,828,000
Adolf Hitler	Germany	1933-1945	20,946,000
Chiang Kai-shek	China	1921-1948	10,214,000
Vladimir Lenin	Soviet Union	1917-1924	4,017,000
Tojo Hideki	Japan	1941-1945	3,990,000
Pol Pot	Cambodia	1968-1987	2,397,000
Yahya Khan	Pakistan	1971	1,500,000
Josip Tito	Yugoslavia	1941-1987	1,172,000

Source: http://www.freedomsnest.com/rummel_murderers.html

[jboot]

Wow, I've never seen a casualty estimate for the holocaust that exceeds 12 million (and that is also probably an exaggeration). To get Hitler's kill count to 23 million, the author must be including Soviet combat casualties. Kinda shoddy work, IMHO.