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Communist regimes were responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other movement in history with torture, mass execution, starvation, terror, forced labour camps and murder all justified in the cause of a communist utopia. In their efforts to bring about the greatest human happiness, communists have brought about great human suffering. The numbers of deaths are staggering; if we include the estimated 50 million deaths that occurred through famine as a result of misguided agricultural or deliberate government policies, it has been estimated that communism was the direct cause of over 100 million deaths in the 20th century or, to put it into perspective, more than those killed in all the wars, revolutions and conflicts in the entire century combined.
The Chinese and Soviet communists executed the largest numbers of their citizens, while the Cambodian communists murdered the largest percentage of their own population. Three of the four worst dictators the world has known in terms of the number of deaths caused have been communist – Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot. Despite this, communist regimes still exist today, including the morally bankrupt North Korea, which continues to run a network of forced labour camps. China, Cuba, Vietnam and Laos still have nominally communist regimes in 2012.