estimates of mass murders and concluded that 170 million people have been intentionally killed by government authorities in the 20th century.
While Hitler ranks high, the greatest mass murderer of all time is Joseph Stalin, our "ally" in WWII. During his regime, Rummel estimates that Stalin killed 43 million of his own people, including 33 million as a consequence of lethal forced labor in the "Gulag" Russian concentration camps.
Next is another communist government -- today our largest trading partner -- China. Chinese communists murdered about 30 million of their own people. At least a million died during Mao's "Cultural Revolution," and another 27 million died of famine, the results of his failed economic policies.
wow,,way higher than i thought!! 43million people!! ,you could put together all the killings in history and hardly make it close to a figure like that,,china killed 30million of its own people,,anti religous too,,,and anothere 27 million in famine<~~can you even get a figure close to 170million ,,i dout it,,lol
,,just goes to show,,people will use anything excuse to do bad things
1975 to 1979, the communist Pol Pot killed 2 million Cambodians -- -almost one third of the total population -- yet the western world sat idly by, watching and making token, formal complaints, yet doing nothing<~~ok,,more anti religous nuts,,can you explain 172 million deaths by anti religous leaders? sounds worse than any religous nut,,lol
