| Worst Genocides of the Twentieth Century |
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| The ten worst genocides of the 20th century listed by dictators responsible; ranked by number of deaths |
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Mao Zedong
27 - 73 million Chinese deaths (1945 - 1976)
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Joseph Stalin
4 - 60 million polictical purges (1922 - 1953)
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Adolf Hitler
15 - 50 million civilian deaths by democide and by deaths in concentration camps (1939 - 1945)
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Hideki Tojo
6 million - 30 million deaths of Chinese civilians during World War II
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Pol Pot
2 - 3 million deaths in Cambodia in the 1970s
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Pol Pot
More than 1.6 million political purges and deaths in concentration camps (1946 - 1994)
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Mengistu Haile Mariam
1.5 million deaths by democide in Ethiopia in the 1970s
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Ismail Enver
1.2 - 1.5 million deaths of Turkish civilians (1914-1916)
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Yakubu Gowon
Over 1 million deaths in Nigeria in (1966-1975)
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Leonid Brezhnev
over 900,000 Armenian deaths (1979 - 1982)
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