Top 10 Most Evil Leaders in History

In my time reading about history, I've come up with the term "superdictator". What this means is that the dictator in question did so many atrocities that they earn a title above dictator. Besides Stalin, Hitler perfectly fits this term. Not only was he responsible for the humiliation, and later slaughter of 11 million innocent lives, he also started a pointless conflict driven by his own anger. I'm glad Germany has made a clean slate ever since the Third Reich, because they deserve it after such a horrific leader.

I strongly agree with him the most evil person in the world. He started the Holocaust. He hated Jews, Gypsies, people with disabilities, homosexuality and many more. If I was in Germany at his time, I would be killed because I'm deaf. I'm absolutely disgusted by Hitler and his beliefs of "perfect Germans". He think that he can abuse his power. Over 6 millions of Jews were killed, thanks to Hitler.

He was a great leader who was knowledgeable about business, politics and warfare and was highly charismatic and impressionable towards the German public.

Too bad his main goals were genocidal and he was more driven towards hatred and supremacy. That ended up making him a morally detestable person. Hitler is the best example of wasted potential if you ask me.

This man was probably possessed by the Devil himself who would kill people based on religion, and would kill people if they disagreed to him, if they did do that it would be a one-way ticket to a concentration camp, finally who the hell would send children to the front lines.

This man is an absolute nightmare for killing 40 over millions of people. One may argue that Hitler literally wiped out the entire Jewish state but Stalin takes the cake for being one of the most brutal leaders to ever exist. His reign of terror doesn't only function on famine to make "USSR" great but also his paranoia and fear that people will murder him. Millions suffered under him. His inhumanity earns him a throne of skulls and an ocean filled with the blood of the innocent and even his own wife and son because he was unwilling to "negotiate with fascists."

Anyone who didn't agree with the communist ruling were sent to the Gulag or Tortured and executed. One survivor tells that a woman walked into a prison torture chamber and found her husband in a chair with his feet burned so the skin had been peeled off. Also his eyes had been gouged out and his lips had been cut off.
I do know that nazi scientists made experiments on twins in the concentration camps and tried to switch eye colour on prisoners.
After all I have read about world war 2 I have to say that Josef Stalin was the worst. Remember that he also did'nt like jews and sent them to the gulag. It didn't matter who you were if you didn't agree with the Soviet rule you would be tortured or killed. Stalin let the KGB kill people that he saw as a threat, because he wanted to rule Soviet.
When his wife died nobody could see any reaction from Stalin. He didn't cry, he didn't get angry. When his own son were captured by the germans he didn't even try to negotiate. He told the ...more

Dude was one of the worst men, if not *the* worst man in history. He caused the deaths of millions in terror famines and in concentration camp-like gulags. He, like Hitler, hated jews.

How is barrack obama worse than this man. Do you people know anything of history. Obama didn't kill twenty million people of his own country because he wanted to stay in power. Am I the only young person in this world that knows anything about history.

Mao Zedong was never a good leader at all. After his cultural revolution and great leap forward, he has murdered over 60 million Chinese people. Yet China still sees this guy as their godly hero, and many portraits of him are displayed throughout the country. Mao killed people through famine, labor camps, torture, or maybe even executions. He was a cunning and ruthless leader, who still has his name honored through China.

Historians argue on the number of deaths to attribute to Mao, but the number is most likely 70 million. Mao killed people just to solve China's problems. He did not talk bad about them or even care about them. On the other hand, Hitler was all about eliminating the less desirable people from his Germany. The world knew but did not really stop him. Mao just straight killed people through famine, labor, or execution. He was cunning. I wish more people would learn about him and see that he was just straight up evil.

Geeze, that dude is evil! Ignoring the fact that he killed a bunch of citizens, the people he killed are mostly university students and doctors, can you believe that? He actually sort of drugged the solders to turn them against their own people, he's darn crazy I tell u! And he's the dude who lets the students to object him in the first place, what?! Except that he totally ruined the country by causing a famine (killed ~20percent people off), destroying thousands of old articrafts, brainwashing the people to kill off scholars and famous artists and writers in the great cultural revolution. he's probably losing his touch as he gets older!

Hey Mao Zedong, here's my giant middle finger you shove up your anus for all of the people that you murdered. Send me a postcard and tell me what Hell is like.

Believed in communism and turned Cambodia back 200 years with his stupid Khmer Rouge and maniacal ideas. He led a genocide that ended in the deaths of 2 million innocent people, and didn't face any real punishment for it. Anyone who didn't comply with his communist-related laws would be sent to labor camps where they work their asses off at least 10 hours a day. But if they commit "political" crimes, they would either be sent to death camps, executed, or tortured. He spreads lies and propaganda around his country, isolated his people from the outside world, ensures them that they are the only "real" country, and that if they dare leave Cambodia they would suffer a fate worse than death. If this guy isn't worse than Min Aung Hlaing then I don't know who is.

Farmer in Cambodia with a vision. He was the leader of the communist revolution. Created a police state with the mission to return Cambodia to an agricultural state. Created death camps for all professional people (those who weren't farmers) and murdered over 3,000,000 people. Eventually, communist Vietnam came to help them because it was so bad there

After Obama? Are you people mental? Maybe the whole dam world is... Pol Pot, Amin, Somoza regime, come on... Now let's see what the new clown in office does. Sure Bush, Clintons, Roosevelts, blah blah blah. BUT until you live in a country where, its easier and cheaper to get a gun, versus 5lbs of rice. And the police tear loved ones from your arms... USA... is a nice place to be. If you don't like it. LEAVE

Pol pot was completly insane. He admittly killed 3 MILLION inonnocent cambodians to till soil with there bare hands. In his biggest jail, only 15 people emerged alive. His farms were known as the 'killing fields'. At least hitler gave a reason for the death of 6 million jews. It may have been a lie, but it will do (not saying that hitler was a good man)! His prison man holds the record of 'largest war criminal convicted in the 21st centruy'

I wonder why this one is seventh. Surely his evilness level is equal to if not more than Hitler? And why is Obama 3rd? He might not be a good president, but he's definitely not as evil as Hitler or bin Laden who were responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people. A moron such as Laden should be in the top 3.

He started everything Americans, Middle Easterners and Europeans see today as terrorism, hate, and disaster. Without him, the likely hood a random girl in a Hijab is called a terrorist would be nearly incomprehensible. ISIS's creation wouldn't have come close to starting. Iconic parts of the U.S would still be here. And millions of People from around the globe would still be alive

He leaves a bad impression on what Muslims and other Middle-Eastern people are actually like.

He is one of the Great Leader... Because he worked very perfectly all things..

This was not a terrible monster in the way most of these crazy, power hungry, people. This was a sad, sad man bent on revenge for his treatment after witnessing the atrocities of war and valorously saving his people from slaughter. Coming home crippled his battle torn mind. Think of this, we have solders today coming back from war scared for life without injury and we use weapons that either blow people up or tear through people from a distance. Now imagine having to go into battle with the weapons of that time and the damage that would cause after war with no morals. He also had as close to NO CRIME during his reign.

Hitler may have killed a lot of people but in terms of evil, vlad deserves number one. He would impale people by putting long wooden stakes up people's anus until the stake goes out of their mouths. Sometimes he'd impale them from the front or back. He chopped people's genitals off. He boiled infants and children and forced their parents to eat them. He drunk people's blood, he hammered two guys hat on each other's head where they could never take them off just because they didn't bow to him. He went in fields of rotten corpses and laughed and mocked them. It's probably true, Satan might not welcome this maniac to hell.

1) Vlad ate in the fields of impaled rotting corpses, dipping his bread in a bowl of their blood. He even had one of his guest's nose cut off and impaled the man for simply plugging his nose during dinner because of the rotting smell.

2) These fields were mix between people hanging on spikes, and those who received the round end. The round end was inserted in anally and were hung there for days until before dying from the weather or dehydration.

Think about it. A field of rotting corpses, hundreds of people screaming in agony, and this guy doesn't lose his appetite, it actually makes him hungry?

3) Most of the other evil people in history ordered mass killing for political gain or to exploit free labor. It got to the point where Vlad was taking innocent people to impale just b/c he gets off on it laugh out loud.

Well I saw a lot more Georg W Bush and Barack Obama, but there not evil there just morons now Vlad the Impaler is the real deal. He was so evil that it is rumored that not even Satin welcomed him to hell. Point number 1 he had a very homicidal character. Point number 2 he killed thousands of innocent people those who were not Catholic, he killed people for entertainment, he would literally roast little children and make there parents eat them (that is far worse than abortion), and for capital punishment he would impale his victims with a wooden pool by jabbing them from the groin or vagina all the way to the inside of the brain and harvest there blood for wine. Point number 3 it's because of his brutality that had inspire the story of Count Dracula.

Just because this man was allies with Hitler doesn't mean he is the bad guy, his people were. hirohito did not support the whole Japanese supremacy, but couldn't do anything to stop it.

For a Prophet giving the perfect word of god. He still had great faults. Slavery, Ethnic Discrimination, Age of consent, Woman's rights, engaging in war of conquest. All these things can be explained at by time and place making him just an effective leader. But he claimed to be the last prophet and lives not up to the perfect standard.

Molested his wife and six-year-old Baby Aisha. One of Baby Aisha's wifely duties was to clean semen stains from the prophet's clothes. The prophet would take a bath with Baby Aisha and 'thigh' with Baby Aisha, meaning she was too small to be penetrated so he would take his penis and rub it up and down her thighs and against her vagina. Being a man of 'mercy' he did not penetrate Baby Aisha until she was nine.

The creator of Islam, the most dangerous ideology ever, was a mass murderer, an assassin, a slaver, a sex slaver, a rapist and a pedophile, etc. The horrible Islamic law Sharia is so barbaric that orders cruel punishments for people who doesn't live their lives exactly as this man wanted them to live.

How many holocausts have been carried out in the name of Allah because of the prophet Muhammad? The victims, numberless and forgotten. It is a sin to speak against him, though we do not even know his face. Truly the most evil of all time.

Way more evil than his son. He had hundreds of innocent people executed to set a warning for those who he feared might revolt against his Jucheist ideas. Not to mention, he ruined the economy and did nothing about the Korean famine.

At least his nephew executed him so now there is one stupid baby instead of two.

I am from South Korea and I hate him. I always wondered why he is even trying to fight with the whole world. He is an idiot enough to try to fight 1 on 1000000.

The worst leader of Russia. Unlike Stalin, Ivan actually killed people for no reason other than he was bored. As a child, he threw puppies off towers for fun. Now he is known as a terrible man, even by Russians. This just goes to show how sadistic this monster was.

He was terrible he beat his pregnant daughter in law causing a miscarriage when his son heard. of this he confronted him but ivan killed him. He also invaded the city called Novgorod and ordered 500 to 1000 people be tortured to death in front of him each day this included being skinned disembowled boiled fried and beaten to death. 60000 people were killed not to mention the thousands of people that were killed on other occasions. He forced hundreds of parents to watch their children be tortured and killed.

Ivan the Terrible. Ivan the Horrible. HIs nickname is absolutely correct.

Stranger: Hi, what's your name?
Ivan: *Pulls out sword.*
Stranger: Uh-oh.

I shouldn't need to tell you what happens next.

Killed his own wife and children why? For FUN The man Doesn't deserve to live or even be a leader

Evil. Small. Fat. Stupid. How can the USA start thousands of problems in the Middle East and NOT blow out his brains. I think he deserves it most he's like Adolf Hitler 2.0... Anyone agree? How can anybody think putting a crazy maniac teletubby in control of anything is a good idea? I don't get it, I'm going to put him in the drawer that I put Osama, Adolf and Justin Bieber in...

Destroyed his own economy, spreads propaganda around his country like it's hot news, executes defectors and people who make the slightest mistakes, forced people to cry at his father's funeral, assassinated his older brother in fear that he would take the heir instead of him, forced people to believe that he is god and can control everything based on his moods, made a "pleasure squad" where he forced 2000 attractive women to have _ _ _ with him and his top officials, made his people believe that the US is the poorest country in the world, named his country the "hermit kingdom," and much more...

The Most Evil Man alive who Kills People in Brutal Ways But He luckily can't do much with his as the Medic would put it SCHWEINHUND Hands on his Puny Red Button but just Yet.

Why is he lower than Bush? Also look below Obama, I think Attila the hun is a lot worse then semi socialist health care.

Lenin took the Marxist ideology and smashed it. Instead of a democracy like the russian people wanted, he took total control and killed anyone who opposed him. In 1918 he had at least 10,000 killed, a lot were innocent and he was more or less making a new Tsarist rule through this repression.
In his first two years he killed more people than Nicholas II in his entire reign and half of Alexander III's who repressed people.
He also used propaganda and tried to excuse the fact that he killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Lenin wasn't really bad at all, he built off of Karl Marx's ideas, and brought Russia into a very prosperous age after ending the czarist reign permanently, buuuttt...the only horrible thing he did, was choose Stalin as his successor (which was more or less the only problem that he had) so in other words. Communism was good from Marx, until Lenin, and everyone after him completely twisted Marx's ideas of prosperity, into living proof that absolute power corrupts absolutely

He destroyed the Tsar government, but his reign of terror was just as brutal. He slaughtered people, hated his own followers, and he chose Stalin as his successor.

Very horrible person. Stalin, even though he killed more, had at least done some justice in a few cases, but Lenin never! He caused genocide, destroyed the peaceful Russian Federation that was born in February 1919 and said:"If in the name of the revolution, we must kill 3/4 of the world's population, we should not stop". Idiotic fanatic.

Killed 10 million people

He eats people alive

Saddam may not have killed as many as Stalin or Hitler did, but when he kill people he asked his mercenaries in the most brutal ways, Burn, bury them alive, Acid pools, throw them off the third floor. Besides when you commit a "sin" against the great leader, not only that you will be executed by yourself but you father and uncles will suffer the same fate.

Actually, Saddam didn't have nukes. Read a newspaper, geez! While he didn't have WMD's, he did use gas attacks, under the guise of testing them, in an attempt to wipe out the Kurdish people who populate northern Iraq. He was a monster, and I'm glad he's dead.

He had chemical weapons

Executed people live and stored their bodies in fridges so he could laugh at them. Not to mention, he was also a cannibal, had no regards for the Ugandan people, and executed at least 500000 people during his brutal reign.

This guy would chop up his enemies/people he'd punished, keep their remains in his fridge as trophies and laugh at them. If anything he should be up there next to Vlad the Impaler.

This man was truly Satanic. He even ate the meat of his victims. Can you just imagine the way those people were tormented by being treated as animals for food.

I can only say that he was just evil. If he is to come back on this earth, even satan would repent.

How is this absolute menace to society ranked less bad than Muhammad, who was literally just a controversial religious figure.

He slaughtered more people than hitler. When he was attacking the shaw tribe their was a moat around there castle his horses could not get around so he made a bridge of his drowned captives

He killed people using the lead sprinkler which involved pouring molten metal or silver in the victims eyes or ears.

Wiped out whole nations with his conquest and his legacy. Evil by modern metrics for sure.

Vladimir Putin is an empire-building narcissist that needs to be taken out. He is a shining example of why the world suffers. Condemn his war on Ukraine and the suffering he has caused.

He orders the Russians to occupy countries (like Georgia) and threatens countries that Russia could conquer them in two days (I know he said this about Poland and Romania). Very terroristic state he rules.

Brutal dictator, pointlessly killing thousands of Ukrainian civilians in a war of vanity and choice.

He just soared up the list by invading Ukraine completely unprovoked.

Under the Bush Administration, it was a good reason why people outside of the United States hated Americans. In addition to Dick Cheney who was given a significant role by encouraging war against the Iraqi's. George Bush is worse than Nixon, except Bush was waging war while Nixon ended the war. The War in Iraq was the biggest mistake in history, therefore it was a good reason why 9/11 happened because of this old man. A man who clearly doesn't know how to address issues in America. We supported Obama for a good reason because of the Financial Crisis.

Brought utter destruction upon a great nation. One of the worst ever. Worst on the economy, started a war based on lies (murder), brought cronyism to a new level, unprecedented tax breaks for the rich leading to the middle class starting to fade. Horrible failure as a communicator, spoke like a dimwitted fool. It will take a generation or more for the USA to recover from Bush. He should be jailed.

When the two towers of New York City were bombed he blamed the whole religion of Islam instead of just the Alcada Group. Due to this Christians and Muslims hates each other and their are lots of wars in Iraq and other foreign countries. Instead of killing lots of innocent and random people can't he just kill the group instead of random targets?

This guy should be on top of the list because of 1. Failure to find WMDs in Iraq 2. Ignorance during hurricane katrina 3. 2008 recession 4. Failed assassination attempt during trip to Georgia (the country) 5.DODGING when the Iraqi reporter threw his shoe towards BUSH 6. PROVIDING Pakistan F16 jets 7. Being a drug addict 8. Breaking traffic rules 9. Juvenile delinquincy

Castro has to be one of the best liars in history, like Trump, but much more skilled at convincing others to ignore the evidence at hand. He killed some 18 percent of the population to take power (getting rid of another 4% in exiling them) and had any book that promoted freedom of thought burned. A true monster, based on his actions.

This guy enslaved Cubans, lied to America every way possible, and was not a good ally to Nikita Krushchev either. He managed to fail a lot of Krushchev's tasks, and the FBI tried to assassinate him over 600 times! You know Castro's a monster if his assassination attempts are over 100.

Same as many other latinamerican dictators but managed to stay in power by selling himself as a lefty leader for the poor. In reality under communist Cuba everybody became poor but he and his family

The real thing about the us is trying to assassinate him and the rest is because the baking system inside their government.

This evil man has done everything in his power to take down almost everything the United States stands for, under our Constitution. He has encouraged racism and racist behavior, he looks upon immigrants as non people, poor people in his eyes are non people. He only cares about the rich and his rich friends. That isn't what the United States was founded on. He wants to dismantle Medicare, Social Security, Endangered Species Act, any and all protection of our environment, He sold nuclear arms to the Saudis..Saudis took down the Bldg. in NYC. Trump is a traitor.

Words cannot describe this self-promoting narcissist. He is a bully and misleads those who support him. He is close to creating a new civil war. He supposedly supports conservative Christian views yet he has broken just about every one of the 10 commandments. And worst yet, he has destroyed the United States' reputation as a world leader with all of our allies. History will not be kind to this monster.

WHY IS HE ON #22 HE SHOULD BE NUMBER 2. He thinks he's the best and when he lost the election he posted FAKE RESULTS on twitter 3 TIMES. His logo 'Make america great again' or whatsoever isn't true. He made america 'worse' (Not really but still bad). He only cares about rich people and encouraged racism or racist behavior. After capitol hill, I'm glad that Joe Biden is the president. And he didn't attend the inauguration JUST BECAUSE he lost and he was mad. And plus he got impeached TWICE.

He is racist, sexist, homophobic, Xenophobic, Neo-Nazi who doesn't care about anyone but himself. He has done nothing to improve the country, and he has made it the laughing stock of the world.

Hypocrite. He grew up in a wealthy neighborhood with all the privileges. The guy enriched himself buy millions and millions. By 2012 he played the race card at every turn. He was a smooth talker who could sell ice to an Eskimo or sand to an Arab. He divided America gutting the center and radicalized many to the far left. Shameful.

At least Stalin had the decency to not pretend to not rule with an iron fist, anybody who knows about how economics really work will tell you that he is the worst at actually leading this country, his only claim to fame is being president while Osama got killed, but let me ask you this, what would've happened to his chances of being reelected if we found out he let bin laden get away. At least Bush didn't blame Clinton for his failures, Obama can't even go one day without blaming his failures on everybody, and, as a typical democrat, he'll get away with it all and be called really great for screwing our country, economy, and freedoms.

I mean, I don't really like him but that doesn't mean that he was an evil leader. He was a very poor excuse for what American stands for; like hard work, living the American dream, being a patriot, etc. He shunned our military, opened our borders to illegal immigrants before helping his own citizens, made it "cool" to protest for things that weren't even issues (wage gap was a skewed statistic based on ALL incomes and women statistically stay home in larger numbers than men so OF COURSE it seemed we were paid less, but we aren't! ) and had the highest unemployment rate. I would never vote for him, for Killary, but I don't think he is inherently evil, just warped and a socialist.

Barack Hussein Obama is the least experienced person to be be elected to the highest office in the land. And he has not disappointed. During his first four years in office, he will have presided over the highest deficits, highest unemployment, highest poverty/welfare levels, and highest levels of class and racial division in US history. In addition, relations with Israel are at historic lows, Russia has gained in power and world standing, and Iran will likely have developed nuclear weapons under his watch.

He pushed for war with his own agenda and let Bush take the heat for it. He manipulated Bush like a puppet, and made millions from selling arms to the US military.

Talk about conflict of interest he is and always will an enemy to the freedom of people every where, to include the constitution of the US. Manipulated Bush, and the Miltary Ind Complex to his own design.

Why would he be on the most evil leaders in history. Everybody who put Cheney on this list, grow up.

He should be in jail.

This guy was almost as bad as Caligula. He was ruthless and murderous. And you must be evil to kick your pregnant wife to death and try to kill your own mother. In fact, he was so evil that he crucified Christians and burned them alive. Now, that's just evil! He would not think twice about killing someone or beating them to a bloody pulp!

He killed innocent people! Mother flipper he was a no good, dirty bastard
That should have been burned at the stake, twice!

Why is he only #30? He's basically Hitler before the existence of the actual Hitler.

An efficient and effective administrator, but a buffoon and an ignoramus.