Hitler-Pol Pot-Stalin-Mussolini-Amin-BokassaSaddam. Who has been the most cruel dictator of the last 60 years?

Question

Ok, last 70 years.

Answer 1

I think Pol Pot was the most cruel person. Please go to following web page for further detail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot
His cruelty was confined to his own people. His approach has been extremely inhuman. He was lucky enough to escape punishment and died natural death.

Answer 2

Hard to pick. Pol Pot planned to wipe out the whole country so yeah he was terriable. Stalin and Hitler wanted to conquer the World. Stalin had people disappear, but then he also made it so they never existed. Heck what about Pinochet. He could make that list as well. I think Stalin is probably the worst though. He had the size, the ambition, and made it so the person never existed. He didn't just kill them but killed the people who said that person even existed if said person had fallen out of favor with him.

Answer 3

If "most cruel" is judged on the basis of "the number of deaths he caused", Stalin wins by a mile among the dictators you name. His tally in the Soviet Union alone, not counting WW2 deaths, was between 30 million and 130 million, with the most probable estimate around 65 million. That includes executions; death by starvation among the peasants whose food he took by force (and then exported!); and those worked to death in his slave labor camps. And Stalin really enjoyed being cruel, playing like a cat with a mouse with his most prominent individual victims.

The next most prolific killer, based on the numbers, isn't even on your list: Mao Zedong, the Communist dictator of China. Mao's "deaths by execution" probably fall into the range of 10 - 15 million people. But his incredible incompetence and lack of concern for the wellbeing of the Chinese people added a further 30 - 40 million from death by famine --- famine caused entirely by Mao's collectivization of agriculture in his Great Leap Forward programs. Deaths in Mao's vast gulag of slave labor camps were also high, but not as high as Stalin's: Mao wanted his slaves kept alive for their work content.

Hitler came nowhere near to matching the records of Stalin and Mao. Mussolini was a pussycat by comparison. Amin, Boka, etc. = rookies.

Pol Pot, however, was right up there with the Grand Masters of Murder. His only problem was that Cambodia did not have enough people to kill in numbers that could rival Stalin and Mao. In just five year's, 1975-1979, over 25% of Cambodia's population perished at the hands of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. Two millions died out of a total population of seven millions. If you wanted to distill pure evil, you should start with Pol Pot's genes.

Answer 4

Let me do a little math here... 2007 minus 60 equals 1947 and hitler died in 1945 and Stalin 1953, I would have to say Stalin

Hitler killed his millions
Stalin killed his tens of millions.
Kill tally: Approximately 20 million, including up to 14.5 million needlessly starved to death. At least one million executed for political "offences". At least 9.5 million more deported, exiled or imprisoned in work camps, with many of the estimated five million sent to the 'Gulag Archipelago' never returning alive. Other estimates place the number of deported at 28 million, including 18 million sent to the 'Gulag'.

By his own admission, "rough" and uncultivated, and with a troubled personal life, Stalin set a benchmark for the ruthless pursuit of social engineering. He was the 'Engineer of Human Souls' in the bleak and callous Europe portrayed in the book of the same name by Czech writer Josef Skvorecky. Others have attempted to follow Stalin's lead - Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania; Pol Pot in Cambodia - but none have had his "success".

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people!! Stop saying Hitler, or Mussolini the question is in the last 60 years!!
Mussolini died in 43 and Hitler in 45
End of Rant

Answer 5

For me, its a hard choice between Pol pot and Stalin, others have come and gone and left their mark on the world as being ruthless war mongers, greedy, maniacal and just plain insane, but few have had such a profound on their own countries population, both of them had a murderous reign of terror that saw millions of their own people murdered, for Pol pot it was the killing fields, and for Stalin it was the Gulags and Siberia.

Answer 6

Stalin

Answer 7

define the term cruel they were all cruel. hitler killed people that werent his likabliies stalin killed anyone that disagreed with him. mussolini was kind of a joke pol pot i think was the worst he wiped out countries towns by any means neccessary he doesnt give credit for being a cruel dictator

Answer 8

I would have to go with: Stalin. The numbers say it all - all of the others (including Hitler and Mussolini) were really nothing compared to what Joe did to HIS OWN people!

P.S. - did you notice that when all other answerers did the math about the body-count, no one included all of the dead Germans in Hitlers total score? I don't believe that those people all really wanted to go god-knows-where, but were made to go, just like all other soldiers (I believe that the count would be about 40 mil.).

Answer 9

joe stalin; he killed at least 20million dissidents and sent almost as many to the gulags.

nikolai chaucescu and teh stazi did similar numbers.

pol pot was an amatuer by comparison... as was amin.

hitler only gets a mention coz the jews wont let it go... yet Stalin butchered them by teh million.. and no one screams about human rights abuses in USSR...

but the worst dictator was without a doubt MAO...
chairman Mao tse TUNG, peoples republic of china... his cultural revolution claimed and murdered around 50 million over 30 years.. read wikipaedia... the man was a true psycho killer...

Answer 10

How do you define cruelty?

Stalin killed the most - 20 million of his OWN people. On the other hand, Hitler became a symbol of evil for starting WWII, and leaving a legacy of pure hatered. I think it would be fair to say that the nazi deathcamps are the ultimate cruelty of mankind (up to now...) for it's factory-like machanisim of cold blooded, systematic killing of anyone not-like-them (jews, gypsies and more).

Both (and the others, just these two became world symbols) are cruel. Please define cruelty. What is worse? One death or a million? Who is more cruel? One who killed only one person out of hatred only because he didn't get the chance to kill a million, or someone who killed more than one?

Stalin said - "You kill one it is murder, kill a million, it's statistics."

Leave statistics aside!

Cruelty is cruelty and I think there is no need to compare.

I once read a joke: "What's written on Stalin's grave? I leave behind a better world, a world without Stalin."

Lets make sure we leave a better world for our children, not by dying, but living with love.