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The top 3 scores for 20th century atrocities are held by people who started off as nobodies.

People who rise to the occasion in times of national crisis seem to frequently be people who are on the line between somebody and nobody with people like George Washington and Caesar toward the "somebody" end and people like Napoleon and Eisenhower on the nobody end.




Hitler, Stalin and Mao or did you have others in mind?


Yup, those three.




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