History's Greatest Monsters

History's greatest monsters

Dictators responsible for massive crimes against humanity (over 20 million dead)

Name	Country	Time in Power	Regime type	Notable Events	After...
Joseph Stalin	USSR	1924-1953	Communist	Revolutionary regime	died in office
Adolph Hitler	Germany	1933-1945	Fascist	World War II, Jewish Holocaust	committed suicide
Mao Tse-Tung	China	1945-1976	Communist	Revolutionary regime	died in office

Dictators responsible for horrible atrocities (at least 1 million dead)

Name	Country	Time in Power	Notable Events	Regime type	After...
King Leopold II	Belgium	1865-1909	Colonization of the Congo	Monarch	died in office
Kaiser Wilhelm II	Germany	1888-1918	World War I	Monarch	fled, died in exile
Czar Nicholas II	Russia	1894-1917	World War I	Monarch	overthrown, killed
Enver Pasha, member of triumvirate dictatorship	Turkey	1913-1918	Armenian genocide	Military	fled, died in rebellion
Vladimir Lenin	USSR	1917-1924	Russian Civil War	Communist	died in office
Emperor Hirohito	Japan	1926-1989	World War II	Monarch	died in office
Prime Minister Hirota Koki		1936-1937		Military	resigned, tried, executed
Prime Minister Tojo Hideki		1941-1944		Military	resigned, tried, executed
President Chiang Kai-shek	China / Taiwan	1928-1949	Chinese Civil War	Military	died in office
President Ho Chi Minh	North Vietnam	1945-1969	Vietnam War	Communist	died in office
President Kim Il Sung	North Korea	1948-1994	Korean War	Communist	died in office
President Yahya Khan	Pakistan	1969-1971	Indo-Pakistan War	Military	resigned, died
President Saddam Hussein	Iraq	1969-2003	Iran-Iraq War, Kurdish genocide	one party state	overthrown, tried, executed
Prime Minister Pol Pot	Cambodia	1975-1979	Cambodian genocide	Communist	overthrown, arrested, died awaiting trial
President Kim Jong Il	North Korea	1994-	chronic famines	Communist	still in power

Generally bad dictators (over 10,000 killed)

President Kemal Ataturk	Turkey	1920-1938	one party state	died in office
Prime Minister Benito Mussolini	Italy	1922-1943	Fascist	overthrown, killed
Prime Minister Antonio de Salazar	Portugal	1932-1968	Fascist	resigned, died
Francisco Franco	Spain	1939-1975	Fascist	died in office
Prime Minister Ion Antonescu	Romania	1940-1944	Fascist	overthrown, tried, executed
Ante Pavelic	Croatia	1941-1945	Fascist	overthrown, died in exile
Gheorghe Gheorghiu	Romania	1945-1965	Communist	died in office
President Tito	Yugoslavia	1945-1980	Communist	died in office
President Yakubu Gowon	Nigeria	1966-1976	Military	overthrown, still living
President Suharto	Indonesia	1967-1997	Military	resigned, still living
President Idi Amin	Uganda	1971-1980	Military	overthrown, died in exile
President Mengistu Haile	Ethiopia	1974-1991	Communist	fled, lives in exile
President Le Duan	Vietnam	1976-1986	Communist	died in office
President Babrak Karmal	Afghanistan	1979-1987	Communist	resigned, died in exile
President Slobodan Milosevic	Yugoslavia	1997-2000	Fascist	resigned, arrested, died awaiting trial
President Omar al-Bashir	Sudan	1989-	Military	Still in office