Mao Zedong. From 1958 to 1962, his Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people – easily making it the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded.
The statement that Mao killed more Chinese than Japanese is definitely true and everybody with a basic understanding of history should know that.
Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (1950) was started by Mao and ordered close a million people executed. Together with land reform@
土地改革运动 - 维基百科,自由的百科全书, 3~5 million people were executed during 1950-1953.
And the
Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961)was a direct consequence of Mao's disastrous economic policy. Death toll estimates range from 20million to 45 million. The
Great Leap Forward was the major cause, which also destroyed our environment and ecosystems.
And of course the great cultural revolution was a big achievement of our dearest Chairman Mao. There're no reliable estimate on the number of people that were persecuted or killed but death toll might exceed one million.
Despite of the fact tens of million of people were killed by Mao or his policy, Mao's greatest accomplishment wasn't killing. Yes he despised lives as he spoke on behalf of the whole Chinese nation that "we were ready to sacrifice 300 million