20 million dead, of his own people.

This guy is the sole definition of evil, psychotic, and demented.  He's probably the reason why 2-3 generations of Russians are living here in the U.S. and elsewhere.

I must have seen this list or one like it about a dozen times.

I think I'll go across the grain here.  Stalin was a great administrator and leader, who reformed the Russian army by replacing some of its more hidebound officers and having them re-educated, found them other careers, or abruptly retired them.  His series of five year plans industrialized the country, essentially drawing it quickly out of the nineteenth century.  Of course he did all this for the people he ruled with benign tolerance, and for their protection greatly increased the resources of the various security and police agencies in the country.  People felt secure, that no matter what, a knock on the door in the middle of the night would tell them that the secret police were on the watch.

What a humanitarian....

Do lists like these ever stop? For the one thousandth time...the guy is fricken evil!