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Feb 8, 2018 · It is probably fair to say, then, that Mao was responsible for about 1.5 million deaths during the Cultural Revolution, another million for the other campaigns, and between 35 million and 45 million for the Great Leap Famine. Taking a middle number for the famine, 40 million, that’s about 42.5 million deaths.
Mao was a Communist, a poet, a general, a feminist, a farmer, a man always reinventing himself with new dogmas and new titles. ... Hitler and Stalin more commonly compete for the dubious honour of ...
- Who Killed The Most People in History?
- Other Leaders Who Killed People en Masse
- Soldiers and Serial Killers with High Kill Counts
Who killed the most people in history? People often suggest Nazi leader Adolf Hitler or Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, both of whom saw millions die as a direct result of their policies. But recent scholarship suggests that the world’s most murderous leader is China’s Mao Zedong. The founder of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong ruled over ...
Mao Zedong may have killed the most people in history, but other leaders have similar body counts. One such leader is Genghis Khan. During his rule between 1206 and 1227, the Mongol Emperor and his sons succeeded in creating the largest contiguous land empire in human history. And they relied more on violence than diplomacy to conquer territory. Ac...
When it comes to who killed the most people in history, it’s easy to think about rulers like Mao Zedong or Joseph Stalin, who could kill millions through their orders. But some people have single-handedly killed shockingly high numbers of their fellow humans. Sometimes, they killed in the name of war. Finland’s Simo Häyhäbecame the world’s deadlies...
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In their new book, "Mao: The Unknown Story," Jung Chang and Jon Halliday make an impassioned case for Mao as the most monstrous tyrant ever. They argue that he was responsible for "well over 70 ...
Feb 5, 2018 · These months mark the sixtieth anniversary of the launch of Mao’s most infamous experiment in social engineering, the Great Leap Forward. It was this campaign that caused the deaths of tens of millions and catapulted Mao Zedong into the big league of twentieth-century murders. But Mao’s mistakes are more than a chance to reflect on the past. They are also now part of a central debate in Xi ...
May 16, 2016 · Stalin and Mao claimed to be implementing Karl Marx’s “scientific socialism,” while Hitler thought racial purity would allow him and the Nazis to create a better type of human being. And ...
May 14, 2016 · Between May 1966 and Mao’s death in 1976, which in effect ended the Cultural Revolution, over 1m died, millions more were banished from urban homes to the countryside and tens of millions were ...
