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Hitler, Stalin, or Mao Tze Dong?- History's primo badass

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Those who say Hitler was more evil/bad than Stalin are woefully ignorant of historical fact.
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Yep. Out of these three, then, I would agree: Stalin (who killed about 3x as many people as Hitler did, and probably wrote more of them off personally than Hitler as well, being a "hands-on" leader).
 
Originally posted by: pulse8
I'm sorry, but badass doesn't not describe any of those guys.
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agreed, i'd call them mass murderers instead. not badass which usually has a air of coolness associated with the term. heh.
 
Originally posted by: Hardcore
What exactly did Mao do to get labelled a 'badass'. If you have any history of his Long March, i think you would know he was the underdog, and did what he did because he believed in making things better.

Hitler, Stalin, Ghengis Khan, Alexander the Great would all be good... maybe not even Stalin, because he wasn't that expansionist aside from some neighboring countries.
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lmfao... SO killing your OWN people OR the people right next to you is better than far away? That and I may be wrong but at the beginning of the war they invaded poland with the nazis AND he did eventually take over everything between Russia and half way into germany 😛
 
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: Amused
Pol Pot.

While his shear numbers do not rival Stalin, Mao or Hitler's, his percentage of total population outclasses them all.

In my book the order is:

Pol Pot
Stalin
Mao
Hitler

Those who say Hitler was more evil/bad than Stalin are woefully ignorant of historical fact.
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Don't forget that Hitler willfully started a war that spread throughout the world and left countless millions dead ASIDE from his other monumental crimes against humanity. IIRC, Stalin killed something like 11 million (I may be way off, just going on memory), but because he thought inhis paranoid mind that they were threats to him or to the state. Hitler killed millions because he just hated them. I may be way off here...
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What about the multiple millions of ukranians he starved to death? 😛

 
Originally posted by: LuNoTiCK
Hitler, Stalin, those guys are just sick. I wouldn't call them badasses either. How many people did Hitler kill by himself. Besides using a gun is different from what the badasses of old did. It was easy for them to kill people by the thousands, far easier than it was for someone like Ghengis Khan to do it. Besides populations are larger in Hitlers time than say in Ghengis Khan's. Ghenghis Khanh couldn't just bomb an entire city killing thousands, no, those people were killed by hand.

I would consider people like Ghengis Khan, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Atilla the Hun to be bigger badasses.
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What I love is that the French still hold up Napolean like he's not an aggressive war mongering dictator, the arch should have been torn down years ago, it's too bad the nazi's didn't blow it apart 😛

 
A few popes should rank up there too, considering what happened during the inquisition. Ghengis at least spread culture, rather than just killing.
 
I'll go with Ghenghis Khan, Attila (the Scourge of God) the Hun, and Alexander the Great. Those are badasses, unlike sick fvcks like Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao who killed millions of their own people.
 
I can't believe no one mentioned Ross Perot. He's by far #1 as far as kill count and badassness in general
 
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