Claim To Shame

Born: Hunan Province, China

Religion: Atheist

Position: Leader of Red China

Major Disasters: Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution

Major Atrocities: Policies lead to the death of 40,000,000 Chinese.     reference

Notable Quotes

"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."

"The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the US uses to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't."

Claim To Shame

Born: Argentina

Religion: None (Marxism)

Position: Revolutionary

Major Disasters: Aided Fidel Castro in takeover of Cuba

Major Atrocities: Executed hundreds of Cubans who opposed the revolution  reference

Notable Quotes

"Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become …"

"I don't care what he was, he wear's a cool beret and makes a great T-shirt."

Claim To Shame

Born: Nghe An Province, French Indochina

Religion: Raised in Confucianism

Position: Leader, Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Major Disasters: Tet Offensive, mass executions of civilians in the Hue Massacre

Major Atrocities: 1950's land reform program in which more than 100,000 perceived "class enemies" were executed. reference

Notable Quotes

"You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it."

Claim To Shame

Born: Germany

Religion: Atheist

Position: Writer, Philosopher

Major Disasters: Wrote "Das Kapital" and "The Communist Manifesto"

Major Atrocities: Tyrants using his manifesto have lead to the demise of untold millions.

Notable Quotes

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."

"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."

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Born: Vyatskoye, Russia

Religion: Juche (Official State Political Religion)

Position: Supreme Leader of North Korea

Major Disasters: Kim's government was accused of "crimes against humanity" for its alleged culpability in creating and prolonging the 1990s famine.

Major Atrocities: "Among the world's most repressive governments", having up to 200,000 political prisoners. reference

Notable Quotes

" The imperialists are the most heinous enemy of human rights. "

Claim To Shame

Born: Ulyanovsk, Russia

Religion: Atheist

Position: First Leader of Soviet Russia

Major Disasters: During the October Revolution, the "anti-imperialist" Lenin annexed Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan and starved millions of peasants to feed his army.

Major Atrocities: Over 9,000,000 Russians died in the "October Revolution".

Notable Quotes

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth," and "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."

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Born: Gori, Georgia

Religion: Atheist

Position: Premier Soviet Russia

Major Disasters: The "Five Year Economic Plans"

Major Atrocities: Killed over 20,000,000 Russians during his regime. Also created the "Gulag Archipielago" torturing millions of political prisoners. reference

Notable Quotes

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. Read more at "

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."

Claim To Shame

Born: Cuba

Religion: None

Position: President of Cuba

Major Disasters: According to Human Rights Watch, Castro constructed a "repressive machinery" which deprived Cubans of their "basic rights."

Major Atrocities: According to Amnesty International, official death sentences from 1959 to 1987 for political prisoners numbered 237, all but 21 were carried out. reference

Notable Quotes

"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."

Claim To Shame

Born: Kampong Thom Province, French Indochina

Religion: Atheist

Position: Leader of Kampuchea

Major Disasters: Creation of the "New Agrarian Communist Utopia"

Major Atrocities: Known as the Killing Fields, resulting in the death of anywhere between 1-3 million Cambodians, or 20% of the population.

Notable Quotes

"Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies."