MaxShimba
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STALIN (Russian Dictator)
"He was born on December 21, 1879 in Gori, Georgia, the son of a poor cobbler. He trained for the priesthood. His mother always hoped he would be a priest but it wasn?t to be. He was expelled from the seminary because of his revolutionary ideas.Stalin played a minor role in the 1917 revolution. He made a name for himself as a gifted organiser and was hand-picked by Lenin for the position of general secretary.
On Lenin?s death, Stalin?s ruthless quest for the top job began. In 1929 he launched a programme of collectivisation and industrialisation to turn his country of peasants into a modern workforce? The cost was astronomical with several million dying of starvation. Worse was to come in the killings of 1936-1939 that saw countless millions dead.
He had all opposition eliminated through a series of purges. Those who did not co-operate were executed or put into concentration camps. Stalin has surely amassed the greatest toll of killings of all time."
In the process he has become the world?s number-one tyrant and is likely to remain the same to the very end.
"Russia turns its Back on Stalin's Evil Past." The Kingdom. <http://www.the-kingdom.ie/news/story/?trs=cwojojsnau> (1 June, 2009).
MAO ZEDONG (Chinese dictator)
"During the year the author Jung Chang releases a biography of Mao that claims that 70 million Chinese died as a result of his policies.
Asked in an interview "who was the real Mao Tse-Tung?", Chang replies: "The real Mao was completely amoral. He rejected morality as an adult decision when he was 24-years-old and he said the world exists only for me. And from then on he pursued what he wanted with basically increasing power, first to become supreme party leader and then the supreme leader of China, and then to dominate the world. He single-mindedly pursued these goals throughout his life."
"Mao Tse-Tung." Moreorless: Heroes and Killers of the 20th Century. <http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/mao.html> (2 June, 2009).
[SIZE=+1]"People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong's regime (1949-1975)[/SIZE]Agence France Press (25 Sept. 1999) citing at length from Courtois, Stephane, Le Livre Noir du Communism:Rural purges, 1946-49: 2-5M deathsUrban purges, 1950-57: 1MGreat Leap Forward: 20-43MCultural Revolution: 2-7MLabor Camps: 20MTibet: 0.6-1.2M
TOTAL: 44.5 to 72M"
[h=2]"Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Twentieth Century Hemoclysm." <WAR STATS REDIRECT> (2 June, 2009).[/h]
POL POT (Cambodian dictator)
"Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979, having been de facto leader since mid-1975. During his time in power Pol Pot imposed an extreme version of agrarian communism where all city dwellers were relocated to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects. The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions is estimated to have killed around 2 million Cambodians (approximately one third of the population). His regime achieved special notoriety for singling out all intellectuals and other ?bourgeois enemies? for murder. The Khmer Rouge committed mass executions in sites known as the Killing Fields. The executed were buried in mass graves. In order to save ammunition, executions were often carried out using hammers, axe handles, spades or sharpened bamboo sticks.""Pol Pot," The Most Evil Men in History. <Top 10 Most Evil Men - Listverse> (2 June, 2009).NICOLAE CEAUSESCU (Romanian dictator)
"Ceausescu had grandiose visions of leading Romania into a new age, and undertook massive, expensive, and somewhat pointless public works projects to achieve this end. Unfortunately, these projects ran up massive foreign debts as well, which he was unable to pay. The Romanian economy suffered, and soon collapsed for everyone except Ceausescu and his cronies.
Additionally, Nicolae had it in for the ethnic Hungarians in his country, and did his best to drive as many as he could out of Romania. Romanian citizenry was appalled at thesepolicies, but were kept in check by the Securitate, his secret police, who kept almost 15%(!) of the population as paid informants.
...decreed that all Romanian women must bear 5 children apiece....he had specially trained birth squads set up to visit women at home and at work once a month, and administer pregnancy tests...As a result of this decree, state-run orphanages were soon filled to overflowing with about 150,000 orphans in a country with a population of about 5 million.
In addition to tapping phones and opening mail, the Securitate also required all typewriters to be registered. The penalty for owning an unregistered typewriter was death.
After receiving a death threat from an anonymous sender, Ceausescu ordered the Securitate to secure handwriting samples from the entire population.
Ceausescu was steadfast in his denial that AIDS was a real disease. He believed that it was mainly a syndrome of the bourgeoise West, and that Romanians would not suffer. So, of course, Romanians suffered. Thousands of the abovementioned orphans died of AIDS contracted from blood transfusions and shared needles in vaccinations."
"Nicolae Ceausescu," Everything 2. <http://everything2.com/title/Nicolae%2520Ceausescu> (2 June, 2009).
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC (Serbian Dictator)
"Charges:The Indictment charges Slobodan Milosevic on the basis of individual criminal responsibility (Article 7(1) of the Statute) and superior criminal responsibility (Article 7(3) thereof) with:
"MILOSEVIC Case Information Sheet(IT-02-54) "Bosnia and Herzegovina" <http://www.un.org/icty/glance/milosevic.htm> (3 June, 2009).
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian dictator)
"Lenin was the initiator of the central drama--the tragedy--of our era, the rise of totalitarian states. A bookish man with a scholar's habits and a general's tactical instincts, Lenin introduced to the 20th century the practice of taking an all-embracing ideology and imposing it on an entire society rapidly and mercilessly; he created a regime that erased politics, erased historical memory, erased opposition. In his short career in power, from 1917 until his death in 1924, Lenin created a model not merely for his successor, Stalin, but for Mao, for Hitler, for Pol Pot.
"V. I. Lenin," Time 100. <http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/lenin.html> (4 June, 2009).
MUSSOLINI (Italian dictator)
"Hence the fact that although Mussolini, like many of the Fascists, was an atheist and anti-clerical at heart."
Pollard John, "Mussolini?s Rivals: The Limits of the Personality Cult in Fascist Italy." New Perspective. Volume 4. Number 2. December 1998.<http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~semp/facistitaly.htm> (18 June, 2009).
Losses by Ethiopians as a result of Mussolini's Second Ethopian Invasion::275,000 - killed in action78,500 - patriots killed during the occupation (1936-1941)17,800 - women, children, and others killed by bombings30,000 - massacre of February 193735,000 - persons who died in concentration camps24,000 - patriots executed by Summary Courts300,000 - persons who died of privations due to the destruction of their villages760,300 - TOTAL?Second Italo-Abyssinian War,? Wikipedia. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Italo-Abyssinian_War> (19 June, 2009)."Over 5.2 million men served in the Italian army during the First World War Italy's total wartime casualties was 420,000 killed and almost 955,000 wounded.""Mussolini," Spartacus Web Site.<http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Italy.htm> (18 June, 2009).
