Stalin’s extremely brutal 30-year rule as absolute ruler of the Communist Soviet Union featured so many atrocities, including purges, expulsions, forced displacements, imprisonment in labor camps, manufactured famines, torture and good old-fashioned acts of mass murder and massacres (not to mention World War II) that the complete toll of bloodshed will likely never be known, but most experts have determined Stalin’s rule amounted to some 43 million deaths. This includes 19 million Soviet troops and civilians. If you don't include the Soviet troops and Soviet civilians, Joseph Stalin killed 24 million people.

Think about that.

or....The Great Leap Forward & The Cultural Revolution of Chairman Mao: the Great Leap Forward turned Mao into “one of the greatest mass murderers in history, responsible for the deaths of at least 46 million people between 1958 and 1962. It is not merely the extent of the catastrophe that destroys earlier estimates, but also the manner in which many people died: between 3 and 4 million victims were tortured to death, often for the slightest infraction.”