[silverleaf]

Mao actually left Stalin far far behind in attaining the title of “ creator of worlds greatest death by famine”
Estimates range from 45-60 milllion deaths
Kim Chong Il, Pol Pot only rank aming the JV

[RayChuang88]

Most good scholarly estimates say that the famine death toll from the Great Leap Forward to be around 38 to 45 million. I still wonder why the Communist Party in China didn't toss Mao Zedong out on his keister in 1964 after that horrible economic debacle. Can you imagine what China would be like if Zhou Enlai had taken over and took China on a much more moderate course? We could have enjoyed Deng Xiaopeng's economic reforms at least a decade earlier.

[xp38]

Don’t sell Kim and Pol short. Mao is tops because he was in charge of a much more populous country. I have no doubt given the opportunity his fellow travellers would have matched his body count.