mrstickball said: To be fair, though, Hitler led to a bigger war that led to a much bigger geopolitical crisis (Cold War). That is just as big, or a little bigger than Mao's purges. Don't get me wrong, if we're going for mass-murderers, Mao takes the cake. However, he didn't start a war nearly the size of Hitler. |
Yea, but war is war. One person can not fight a war. Once the war started, you then the deaths move to the shoulders of a lot more people.
For example, there were many ways Stalin could have fought Hitler. The method he used was the most deadly for his people. Those deaths fall on him.
I mean we could try and figure out who the first man was who used a stick as a weapon, and blame him for all the deaths in the world too :).