Top 10 Worst Communists

Pol Pot

Pol Pot, born Saloth Sar, was a Cambodian revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until 1997. From 1963 to 1981, he served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. He was responsible for policies that led to the deaths of approximately two million people during the Cambodian... read more

Pol Pot's Cambodia made Mao's China and Stalin's Soviet Union look like a paradise. He essentially deported the entire urban population out of the cities in just one night and brutally executed anyone suspected of being an intellectual. This included anyone who had an education and even those who wore glasses.
The executions were usually carried out by beating the victims to death with shovels or pickaxes to save bullets. The bodies were then dumped in mass graves. Some people were buried alive.
During Pol Pot's tenure, the Vietnamese minority in Cambodia was horribly persecuted. Vietnamese people and many other minorities, including Thai and Chinese, were mutilated, raped, and killed. Even babies and toddlers were murdered in all sorts of disgusting ways. Not to mention, Pol Pot also abolished the monetary economy and reset the calendar. His aggressive foreign policy led Vietnam to invade in 1978. However, the invasion soon turned into a humanitarian operation after the Vietnamese realized what Pol Pot's regime had done to the country.
By the way: Pol Pot was the leader of Cambodia for just over three years! In such a short time, he destroyed his country and killed up to a third of its population. That's insane!

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death on March 5, 1953. He held the title of General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, which gave him effective control over the Soviet state. His rule was marked by rapid... read more

First, the caption for this list is completely wrong. If you have ever read "The Communist Manifesto," you would know that nowhere does the ideology state that murdering political dissidents is part of communism. However, that is not to defend the ideology, nor Stalin.
Stalin was a horrendous leader. Lenin did not want him to take power because he knew Stalin would abuse it. Stalin managed to secure his position through manipulation. Stalin's purges killed 20-40 million people, most of whom (over 99%) were innocent.

He caused an event called the Holodomor, or the Ukrainian Holocaust. Look it up. And he killed more people than Hitler did.

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.... read more

Ordered more people executed than any Nazi or other Communist.

This man was an idiot, too. No wonder Stalin disliked him.

Killed more people than any other man in history.

Kim Jong Il

Kim Jong-il (born Yuri Irsenovich Kim. February 16, 1941 - December 17, 2011) was a North Korean politician who served as the second Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from 1994 until his death in 2011. He succeeded his father, Kim Il-sung, the country's founding leader, and... read more

Kim Jong Un

Kim Jong-un is a North Korean politician who has served as the supreme leader of North Korea since December 2011 and as leader of the Workers' Party of Korea since April 2012. He's the third leader in the Kim dynasty, following his father, Kim Jong-il, and his grandfather, Kim Il-sung. He is also the... read more

Nicolae Ceaușescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu (26 January 1918 - 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He served as the General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and was the second and last communist leader of Romania.... read more

Should be far higher. He was one of the worst dictators of the Eastern Bloc. He was initially a decent leader but then became a paranoid megalomaniac who ruined his country.
Romania still hasn't fully recovered from this beast's misrule. He admired figures such as Stalin and Kim Il-sung and attempted to make his country like North Korea.

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (April 22, 1870 - January 21, 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his leadership, Russia... read more

He didn't create Communism! He was the first Communist leader of Russia.

Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz (May 7, 1892, Kumrovec - May 4, 1980, Ljubljana), commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman. He served in various leadership roles until his death in 1980. During World War II, he led the Partisans, widely regarded as the most effective resistance movement... read more

Genrikh Yagoda

Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda was born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda. He was a Soviet‑Russian secret police official who served as director of the NKVD from 1934 to 1936.

Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised the arrest, show trials, and execution of Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev... read more

Killed more than 5 million Christians.

Lavrentiy Beria

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March 1899-23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union, state security administrator, and chief of the Soviet security apparatus. He served as head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin... read more

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Vasily Blokhin

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Mendel Khatayevich

Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, known as Fidel Castro (August 13, 1926 - November 25, 2016), was a Cuban politician and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party... read more

Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician serving as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission. He has held China's top leadership position since 2012. Xi has centralized power to a degree not seen in China... read more

Lazar Kaganovich

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (November 22, 1893 - July 25, 1991) was a Soviet politician and administrator who was one of Joseph Stalin's closest associates. He played a prominent role in Stalin's rise to power and was instrumental in implementing many of Stalin's policies. Kaganovich is particularly... read more

Julius Malema

Karl Marx

Karl Marx (5 May 1818-14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known works are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto, co-written with Friedrich Engels, and the three-volume Das... read more

He was a racist. He called the Serbs racial trash in his Communist Manifesto.

Ho Chi Minh

Hồ Chí Minh was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader who served as chairman and first secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam. He was also prime minister from 1945 to 1955 and president from 1946 until his death in 1969. He founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945.

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and Soviet politician whose strain of Marxist thought is known as Trotskyism. He played a leading role in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War. Trotsky was later exiled and assassinated in Mexico in 1940.

He joined the capitalist American government when he was thrown out of Russia by Stalin. An extremely stupid move, indeed! Plus, he was a Zionist!

Enver Hoxha

Enver Halil Hoxha was an Albanian communist politician who served as the head of state of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania. Under his rule, Albania became one of the most isolated and repressive countries in the world. His leadership... read more

Not the worst in terms of numbers, but he was still an absolute idiot who is responsible for destroying Albanian national identity and mass torture, as well as murders of priests and a complete lack of understanding of economics.

Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.

He was captured in 1967 during a failed armed insurgency in Bolivia. On the evening of October 8, he was taken to a small... read more

Hipócrita, narcisista, asesino.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Haile Mariam is an Ethiopian politician who led Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991. He was the chairman of the Derg, the Communist military junta that governed Ethiopia, from 1977 to 1987. He later became President of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, serving from 1987 until the regime's... read more

Alfonso Cano

Moša Pijade

Béla Kun

Vyacheslav Molotov

Kim Il Sung

Kim Il-sung was the first supreme leader of North Korea, serving from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the title of premier from 1948 to 1972 and president from 1972 to 1994. Kim established a one-party state and laid the foundations for the Kim dynasty that continues... read more