And the fact that he killed more of his officers including generals than the Germans killed in the advance across Russia. The craziest of the crazy. I guess if I was religious, Satan would probably look like Stalin.

Azrael Strife: I think that Hitler has won that award, not Stalin (and Bush and other USA presidents might very possible even be competing)

Not so, as it has been pointed out - Stalin executed over 8 million of his own people and estimates vary to how many other deaths he was reponsible for prior to the 3 million Germans and Poles he had killed. If you include everyone that died in the Second World War Hitler comes out as small beer compared to Stalin. He also wins the award of most evil person that ever lived every year although I think that Ronald MacDonald was never shortlisted.

That's unfair to call Stalin a maniac for trying to cure the ills of the world, to make pain go away and make MacDonalds food edible. On the other hand he's a maniac for killing more human beings than anyone else that ever lived and the Black Death put together.