


1. RIGHT Adolf Hitler, Germany
German Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s worst humanitarian crime, for which history has never forgiven him, is the Holocaust – the genocide of over 6 million Jews in Europe. On April 30, 1945, after the Nazis lost the Battle of Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in a bunker with mistress Eva Braun to avoid capture.
2. LEFT Benito Mussolini, Italy
Sworn in as the 40th prime minister of Italy in 1922, Benito Mussolini took a little more than a decade to assume the title of "His Excellency Benito Mussolini, Head of Government, Duce of Fascism, and Founder of the Empire". His ideology of Fascism envisioned social progress with subversion, censorship and propaganda through the establishment of a draconian police state. During World War II, Mussolini initially sided with France but then quickly turned about and joined forces with Hitler’s Nazis, embarking on an ambitious plan to acquire territories in France and Britain. During the war, his fief eventually fell to the Allied Forces. He was captured but staged a dramatic escape from prison with German help. While attempting to escape into the neutral state of Switzerland in April 1945, he and his mistress Claretta Petacci were captured and executed. Their bodies were hung upside down before a garage in Milan's Piazzale Loreto on April 29, 1945.
3. TOP CENTER Joseph Stalin, USSR
The jury is still out over whether Joseph Stalin was a great statesman or a great dictator. A Bolshevik revolutionary who participated in the October Revolution along with Vladimir Lenin, he became the Premier of the Soviet Union. He established the USSR as a redoubtable wartime power for subduing the Nazis and in the postwar years made the Soviet Union a nuclear-capable superpower. Despite his ambitious reforms and industrialization drives, he drove thousands of people to forced labor camps and executed political opponents. After Stalin died, his legacy was renounced by his successors.
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