(07-26-2015 07:00 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(07-26-2015 05:53 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(07-22-2015 04:52 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(07-20-2015 07:54 PM)BIgCatonProwl Wrote:  Hitler running a close second Stalin

+1. I'd even say they're basically tied.

(In chronological order of birth)
Lenin. Stalin. Hitler. Mao Tse-tung.

The four horsemen of genocide and industrialized mass-murder. The sheer # of human beings killed on the altar of their ideological obsessions defies belief.

If you compare Mao to other historical Chinese leaders you'll see he was pretty tame by comparison.

Richard I, often called Richard the Lionheart, embarked on the Crusades, who burned the great libraries for their heathen knowledge, setting civilization back a thousand years, could easily be on the list in spot #1. He was born before the lot of 'em, and his actions engendered generations of hatred between Muslims and Christians.

I read a book where it said for centuries if an Arab wanted their children to behave, they would say the English would come and get them. Most of the crusaders were French and German. But Richard was successful.

But he was hardly evil. Other crusaders were much more brutal.