The list of leaders you mention, all obviously, did horrible things. Does that make them poor leaders or evil people? I would consider Hitler & Stalin and a few of the others to be of considerable leadership skills. Now, you have to understand, that I am in no way saying they were great people. But they had 1000's of people buying into there ideas.
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