The 25 most ruthless leaders of all time

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Benito Mussolini

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Reign: 1922-1943

After escaping military service, Mussolini founded Italy's Fascist Party, which was supported among disillusioned war veterans, and organized them into violent units called Blackshirts. He began to disintegrate democratic government institutions, and by 1925 he became "Il Duce," or "the leader" of Italy.

Surviving multiple assassination attempts, Mussolini once said: "If I advance, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, avenge me."

In 1936, Mussolini formed an alliance with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in which he introduced anti-Semitic policies in Italy. In April 1945, already removed from power, Mussolini tried to flee as Allied forces closed in on him, but he was shot and killed by anti-Fascists and hung upside down in a Milanese square.

Source: Atlas of History's Greatest Heroes and Villains" by Howard Watson

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Joseph Stalin

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Reign: 1922-1953

Stalin forced quick industrialization and collectivization in the 1930s that coincided with mass starvation (including the Holodomor in Ukraine), the imprisonment of millions of people in the Gulag labor camps, and the "Great Purge" of the intelligentsia, the government, and the armed forces.

During World War II, Stalin's son Yakov was captured by or surrendered to the German army. The Germans proposed trading Yakov for Field Marshal Paulus, who was captured after the Battle of Stalingrad, but Stalin refused, saying he would never trade a field marshal for a regular soldier.

Source: RT, History, "Joseph Stalin: A Biographical Companion" by Helen Rappaport

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Adolf Hitler

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Reign: 1933-1945

By the end of 1941, Hitler's German Third Reich empire (and Axis) included almost every country in Europe plus a large part of North Africa.

He also devised a plan to create his ideal "master race" by eliminating Jews, Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, and political opponents by forcefully sending them to concentration camps, where they were tortured and worked to death.

According to some reports, the Nazis deliberately killed about 11 million people under Hitler's regime. After learning that Soviet forces were closing in on Berlin, Hitler and his wife killed themselves in his Führerbunker.

Source: Atlas of History's Greatest Heroes and Villains" by Howard Watson, New York Review of Books by Timothy Snyder

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Khorloogiin Choibalsan

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Reign: 1939-1952

After several meetings with Stalin, Choibalsan adopted the Soviet leader's policies and methods and applied them to Mongolia. He created a dictatorial system and suppressed the opposition, and tens of thousands of people were killed.

Later in the 1930s, he "began to arrest and kill leading workers in the party, government, and various social organizations in addition to army officers, intellectuals, and other faithful workers," according to an report published in 1968.

Source: "Historical Dictionary of Mongolia" by Alan J.K. Sanders

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Francisco Franco

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Reign: 1938-1975

With the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, Gen. Franco overthrew Spain's democratically elected Second Republic during the 1930s.

Under his regime, many Republican figures fled the country, and those who stayed were tried by military tribunals. Catholicism was the official (read: only tolerated) religion, Catalan and Basque languages were prohibited outside the home, and the regime had a vast secret police network.

As Franco got older, however, police controls and censorship began to relax, free-market reforms were introduced, and Morocco gained independence.

Source: Britannica, History.com

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Mao Zedong

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Reign: 1949-1976

A communist leader, Mao founded the People's Republic of China. Under his leadership, industry was put under state control, and farmers were organized into collectives. Any opposition was swiftly suppressed.

Mao's supporters point out that he modernized and united China, and turned it into a world superpower. However, others point out that his policies led to the deaths of as many as 40 million people through starvation, forced labor, and executions.

Interestingly, he is sometimes compared to Qin Shi Huang (the first man on this list).

Source: "Atlas of History's Greatest Heroes and Villains" by Howard Watson, Britannica, Biography, BBC, Encyclopedia

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Pol Pot

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Reign: 1975-1979

Pol Pot and his communist Khmer Rouge movement in Cambodia orchestrated a brutal social engineering that aimed to create an agrarian utopia by relocating people into the countryside. Others were put in "special centers" where they were tortured and killed.

Doctors, teachers, and other professionals were forced to work in the fields to "reeducate" themselves. "Anyone thought to be an intellectual of any sort was killed," the BBC reports. "Often people were condemned for wearing glasses or knowing a foreign language."

Up to 2 million Cambodians were executed or overworked or starved to death in just four years.

Source: History, BBC

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Idi Amin

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Reign: 1971-1979

Gen. Amin overthrew an elected government in Uganda via a military coup and declared himself president. He then ruthlessly ruled for eight years, during which an estimated 300,000 civilians were massacred.

He also kicked out Uganda's Asian population (mostly Indian and Pakistani citizens), and spent large amounts on the military, both of which led to the country's economic decline.

Source: History

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Augusto Pinochet

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Reign: 1973-1990

Pinochet overthrew Chile's Allende government in 1973 with the help of a US-backed coup. Reports say numerous people "disappeared" under the regime and as many as 35,000 were tortured. Pinochet died before he could stand trial on accusations of human-rights abuses.

He brought back free-market economic policies, which led to lower inflation and even an economic boom in the late '70s. Notably, Chile was one of the best-performing economies in Latin America from the mid-'80s to the late '90s.

Source: Britannica, Guardian, IMF

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4 minutes ago, mtkr said:

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3 minutes ago, psycopk said:

25 cheap labour fellows of all time lo first untadu..

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