I'm not finding counts of deaths, nor listings of atrocities, for these. I think you're stretching the "monster" thing here; they're not in the same league as Lenin and Mao.<p><i>what makes you a monster is not that you killed millions, but that you were willing to do it in order to maintain your power</i><p>But if you <i>believed</i> that doing so was somehow right (again, the "greatest good" nonsense or something), then it's OK? That's nuts.