Mao’s governmental policies led to famine that killed millions of Chinese. He is, in fact, the winner and most infamous of all killers, and he was an ‘atheist’. Runner up is the Communist regime in the USSR; also atheists. Even, Hitler’s numbers, and he didn't kill for a 'god', don't stack up against those of the ‘atheistic’ communists.
The estimates below are based on studies published by Rudolph J. Rummel,
Death by Government. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2010. pp. xxiv, 496.
His numbers—neither the highest nor the lowest available—are broken down by events. Rummel is a right wing libertarian.
Russian Civil War (1917-22): 9,000,000
Soviet Union: 61,911,000 democides in the USSR 1917-87, of which 51,755,000 occurred during the Stalin years. This divides up into:
■Russian Civil War (1917-22)
■War: 1,410,000 (includes 500,000 civilian)
■Famine: 5,000,000 (50% democidal)
■Other democide: 784,000
■Epidemics: 2,300,000
■Total: 9,494,000
■1923-29: 2,200,000 (plus 1M non-democidal famine deaths)
■1929-39: 15,785,000 (plus 2M non-democidal famine)
■1939-45: 18,157,000
■1946-54: 15,613,000 (plus 333,000 non-democidal famine)
■TOTAL: 51,755,000 democides and 3,333,000 non-demo. famine
WWII European War (military) Dead (1939-45): 28,736,000
■War-related (additional) Democides
■Hitler: 20,946,000 (including Jews: 5,291,000)
■Stalin: 13,053,000
Chinese Civil War (1945-49) Estimate:
■War Dead: 1,201,000
■Democide by Guomindang: 2,645,000
■Democide by Communists: 2,323,000
■Famine: 25,000
■TOTAL: 6,194,000
People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong’s regime (1949-1975) Estimate:
■Democide: 34,361,000 (1949-75)
■The principle episodes being…
■All movements (1949-58): 11,813,000
■incl. Land Reform (1949-53): 4,500,000
■Cult. Rev. (1964-75): 1,613,000
■Forced Labor (1949-75): 15,000,000
■Great Leap Forward (1959-63): 5,680,000 democides
■War: 3,399,000
■Famine: 34,500,000
■Great Leap Forward: 27M famine deaths
■TOTAL: 72,260,000
Under
Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge imposed an extreme form of social engineering on Cambodian society—a radical form of agrarian communism where the whole population had to work in collective farms or forced labor projects. In terms of the number of people killed as a proportion of the population (2 million killed out of an estimated 7.1 million people), it was the most lethal regime of the 20th century. (There were an estimated, additional 35,000 foreign democides.)
•Estimates based on books by Rummel, Rudolph J.:
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China's Bloody Century : Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 (1991), Calculates the lives lost in 20th Century China.
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Lethal Politics : Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917 (1990), Does the same for the Soviet Union.
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Democide : Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder (1992), The German rampage across Europe.
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Death By Government (2010), The full treatment for atrocities committed worldwide during the 20th Century.
Nicolae Ceaușescu atheist leader of Romania from 1967 to 1989. Unknown thousands died each year during his reign.
Faced with a declining Romanian population in 1966, Ceaușescu issued Decree No. 770 prohibiting abortion, and contraceptives were not allowed and were not readily available. Celibacy was not an option for many Romanians, as anyone still childless over the age of 25 was required to pay a ‘celibacy tax’, a heavy burden for a population living in poverty. For seven to nine children a woman won the order of "Maternal Glory." For five or six children she was given the "Maternity Medal."
He was not motivated by concern for families or unborn children; he wanted a larger labor force.
http://caraobrien.tumblr.com/post/35...munist-romania
http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/ceausescu.html
Yeah! That is what this country needs, an atheistic candidate like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot or Ceaușescu. They weren't 'nutcases'.
