worst villains and madmen of the 20th century

So many to choose from. Stalin would probably be the next obvious one, but I'll go with Pol Pot as being particularly ruthless.

Lucille Ball

Mao

I thought pol pot, too

Carrie

Stalin

Chiang kai-Shek is probably up there, responsible for around 10 million dead.

Mao and Stalin have a way higher body count.

Hirohito

R9, good one. To add to that, Hirohito's General Hideki Tojo was responsible for Japan's brutalities and atrocities in China and the Pacific during WWII.

As many as 400,000 died because of me. That is bad, isn't it?

(Yes, I'm still dead.)

Reagan.

a certain magazine editor

Every democrat that every lived.

Not Hitler or Putin.

Slobodan Milosevic deserves a mention.

Idi Amin would have to be candidate.

Stalin

Pol Pot

bin Laden

Pinochet

Khadaffi

Sodomy Hussein

The Orange-utan (remember, we said madmen)

Mussolini. Petain. Duarte. Pinochet. Putin. Eltsin. White Russia‘ President for Life. Thatcher. Reagan. Bush Family.

Jessica Beatrice Fletcher, formerly of Cabot Cove, Maine.

Not only a prolific serial killer with an obscenely high body count (250+) that we're aware of, "J. B." was also a vicious gaslighter who took pains in settling others up for her crimes. Some of these people died in custody. Major psychopath.

I'll give a mention to Abimael Guzman -- leader of the Shining Path Maoist terrorists in Peru. The savagery of their massacres against entire indigenous villages was the closest thing to the Khmer Rouge in the American hemisphere. Almost toppled the government and unrepentant to this day.

Joan Crawford.

Roseanne.

"Who usually wins as the worst tyrant ?"

Bea Arthur.

Cobra commander

Mussolini.

Don't you dare mention my husband!

Look at that hair

Ceaucescu.

R26, he was handsome while young.

Some leader in Haiti I forget his name, Dr something I think. Kim II Sung and Kim Jong.

R30, Papa Doc (François Duvalier)?

Hail Hydra

Another vote for Pol Pot.

Another vote for that bastard Ronald Reagan.

Mao.

Today’s GOP. Fucking traitors.

Once all of Putin’s shit comes out he’ll be up there with the greats.

Reagan's policies certainly had a detrimental effect for millions, still felt today.

The case for Chairman Mao -- the Great Leap Forward killed around 45 million people, mostly from famine, and if that weren't bad enough, he followed that up with the disastrous Cultural Revolution.

mark e. smith

L Ron Hubbard

Jim Jones

JFK. Vietnam was because of him. Burning in Hell with the rest of these mass murderers.

Josef Mengele and his inhumane medical experiments -- inconceivable that Argentina received him.

R38

I think Chairman Mao is an interesting case because would China be a superpower today without those policies? It’s hard to find objective literature on Mao.

R44, I'm no China expert, but it seems that Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 80s is what helped propel the country forward.

Kim Jung __. Are running a de facto concentration camp.

Ayn Rand has done more damage than anyone realizes.

Ayn Rand = Greed is Good

She is the HIV of politics and philosophy.

R47, She loved cashing those social security checks.

R42

Baloney.

Truman is responsible for Viet Nam.

Ho Chi Minh worked for us to get his country free.

Harry Truman stabbed him in the back and gave Vietnam back to the French.

If you want to blame someone for the actual conflict, point your finger at LBJ and McNamara.

R45 that less 45 millions mouths to feed couldn’t have hurt though?

I think Vietnam is really a case of collective guilt, by pretty much the entire American political establishment. A bunch of fools and cowards too stupid to just let the inevitable happen. Except Eisenhower, the only one strong enough to let the whole damn stupid thing drop. Everyone else was caught up in a moronic fairy tale of "toughness" and not being the one to "lose" a damn country we never actually had.

Not surprisingly, we haven't learned a fucking thing since.

Mariah Carey

This guy. Ronald McDonald. Promoting childhood obesity and diabetes for decades.