Whoever says that Stalin is bad and Lenin is not is...let's just say missing a few bats in the bellfree (sp?)
In any case, Linen may not have killed as many people, he didn't have the chance, but he did kill millions. In total, I'd say Stalin and Lenin killed over 20 million Russians. Why? Lenin to get rid of the royal family and the Czars as well as all those loyal, and Stalin to kill all the "straglers". Who's worse? I'd say I'd have to tie all three given time in power, circumstances, reasoning, and a variety of other reasons.
FYI: People still don't understand the Japanese mindset in war. There have been very few retreats, and, if you try to take the mainland...they will fight to every last man, woman, and child. The first bomb was enough to make the Japanese government surrender, and the second was dropped BEFORE we got the surrender report (at the front lines anyway).
You have to do more than study some economisist or liberal history book. You have to read and watch history -- all aspects. That's something I take pride in doing. I've heard reports from Japanese on it. Many, if not most, regret Pearl Harbor as much as we regret Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
There was a reason for purposely aiming at major cities. The military, tactical mindset that long ago was very, very different than now-a-days. War of Attrition was more than just common, it was rampent. That and Japan was what you might call a "second world country" compared to the US, Germany, and UK at the time (if you use them as "first world").
Breaking a backbone is the basic tactical mindset, and has been used by the greatest tactical minds in history. Why do you think Japan has avoided ever having their mainland invaded through out history. The "yellow monkeys" defeated the "red bear" because of their tenasity.
If we had just gone in against them, I say again, we would have lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and there would not be any mainland Japanese today (except for those who would have decided to move back after the war).
Getting back to the topic...
Uh? Wait...? Have we basically finished this one? I mean... Those people don't seem to actually have meant what they said at the beginning. Boy...that was quick.