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  • EDIT: See Shan's answer, complete with source information - http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/6985984 My answer was Stalin - 20 million deaths. After reading the other answers, I believe I was wrong. (Apparently, Mao killed more) This is what I based my original answer on: NY Times article: "A Soviet weekly newspaper today published the most detailed accounting of Stalin's victims yet presented to a mass audience here, indicating that about 20 million died in labor camps, forced collectivization, famine and executions." http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/04/world/major-soviet-paper-says-20-million-died-as-victims-of-stalin.html
  • Well... Mao Tsae Tong tops the list.. but China has the most people. If you consider it as a matter of percentage, Stalin wins, hands down.
  • Mao Zedong by far. Made Stalin look like a choir boy. That North Korean boob would be close, but there just aren't enough live bodies there for it.
  • maybe Hitler +3
  • mao zedong of china is attributed with 49 to 78 million (depending on the source) deaths of his fellow countrymen from 1958 to 1961 and 1966-1976 and in tibet from 1949 to 1950. political wars, resulting famine and the cultural revolution took their toll on china. rj rummel, a university of hawaii political science professor and nobel peace prize finalist, estimates 77 million at the hands of mao. http://www.thefreemanonline.org/departments/book-review-death-by-government-by-rj-rummel/ stalin is a close second with 23 million (the purges plus the ukraine famine) hitler is accredited with 6 million dead in the holocaust and 21 million victims total third reich victims. it is roughly estimated that the state has killed 170 million people in the past century.
  • Mao or Stalin. Pretty much whereever communism is.
  • moa, followed by stalin
  • Mao, Stalin, Pol-Pot, Hitler. Take your pick.
  • Mao. Depending on what stats you follow and what you class as a death he was directly responsible for, the numbers could be as high as 70 million which is higher than the population of the UK.
  • this question again? it's been asked in so many ways... my vote is stalin with an estimated 34 to 49 million deaths to his credit
  • A "socialist" one for sure.

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