13 Deadliest Dictators of the 20th Century

 

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1.  Enver Pasha

 

 

Turkey
The death toll from 1.1 to 2.5 million
Years in power: 5 (1913-1918)
The most heinous crime: genocide of Armenians
Type of treatment: military
Cause of death: killed in action (in the opinion of the majority)

 

 

 

2.  Kim Il Sung

 

 

North Korea
The death toll: 1.6 million
Years in power: 46 (1948-1994)
The most heinous crime: the war in Korea
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: heart attack

 

 

 

3.  Ho Chi Minh

  

 

Northern Vietnam
The death toll: 1.7 million
Years in power: 24 (1945-1969)
The most heinous crime: the Vietnam War
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: heart failure

 

 

 

4.  Pol Pot

 

Cambodia
The death toll from 1.7 to 2.4 million people
Years in power: 4 (1975-1979)
The most heinous crime: genocide in Cambodia
Type of regime: communist

Cause of death: officially unknown

 

 

5.  Saddam Hussein

 

 

 

Iraq
The number of deaths: 2 million
Years in power: 34 (1969-2003)
The most heinous crime: genocide of Kurds
Regime type: authoritarian
Cause of death: death by hanging

 

 

 

6.  Yahya Khan

 

 

 

Pakistan
The death toll from 2 to 12 million people
Years in power: 2 (1969-1971)
The most heinous crime: genocide in Bangladesh
Type of treatment: military
Cause of death: unknown

 

 

 

7.  Hideki Tojo

 

 

Japan
The number of dead: 4 million
Years in power: 3 (1941-1944)
The most heinous crime: the killing of civilians during World War II
Type of treatment: military
Cause of death: death by hanging

 

 

 

8.  Vladimir Lenin

 

 

USSR

The number of dead: 4 million
Years in power: 7 (1917-1924)
The most heinous crime: Civil War in Russia
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: cerebral hemorrhage

 

 

 

9.  Hirohito

  

 

 Japan

The death toll: 6 million
Years in power: 62 (1926-1989)
The most terrible crimes: the massacre in Nanjing
Type of regime: monarchy
Cause of death: cancer

 

 

 

10.     Chiang Kai-shek

 

  

China

The death toll: 10 million
Years in power: 18 (1928-1949)
The most heinous crime: Incident 228 (Massacre in Taiwan in 1947)
Type of treatment: military
Cause of death: kidney failure

 

 

 

11.     Adolf Hitler

 

 

 Germany

The death toll from 17 to 20 million people
Years in power: 11 (1934-1945)
The most heinous crime: the Holocaust
Type of regime: fascist
Cause of death: suicide

 

 

 

12. Joseph Stalin

  

  

USSR

The death toll from 40 to 62 million people
Years in power: 12 (1941-1953)
The most heinous crime: the Gulag
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: heart attack

 

 

 

13. Mao Zedong

 

China

The death toll from 45 to 75 million
Years in power: 34 (1943-1976)
The most heinous crime: the great famine in China
Cause of death: heart attack