Right Wing News emailed more than 125 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of whom they considered to be the "worst figures of the 20th century." Representatives from the following 39 blogs responded...

Abode Of Amritas, The American Mind, Betsy's Page, The Blog Of The Century Of The Week, Sasha Castel, Curmudgeonly & Skeptical, DANEgerus Weblog, Dean's World, Dissecting Leftism, Ed Driscoll, Drumwaster's Rants, Dumb Celebs, Fraters Libertas, Freakinback's Whole, Ghost of a Flea, Gocinatlanta, Gut Rumbles, Hud's Blog-O-Rama, Idiotarian, IMAO, Insults Unpunished, Jessica's Well, Joyful Christian, JunkYardBlog, Lead And Gold, Lex Libertas, Obiblg Peaktalk, Damian Penny, Poliblog, Powerline, Right Wing News, Scrappleface, Sine Qua Non, Jay Solo's Verbosity, Tacitus, The Ville, The Yale Diva, Zogby Blog

All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-20 selections. Rank was determined simply by the number of votes received. Without further adieu, the "worst figures of the 20th century" according to the right side of the blogosphere are as follows (with the number of votes following each selection)...

Honorable Mentions: Kaiser Wilhelm II (4), General Suharto (4), Richard Nixon (4), Slobodan Milosevic (4), Mengistu Haile Mariam (4), Lyndon Johnson (4), Alger Hiss (4), Heinrich Himmler (4), Hillary Clinton (4), Neville Chamberlain (4), Robert Mugabe (5), Bill Clinton (5)

20) Josef Mengele (6)
17) Hideki Tojo (8)
17) The Rosenbergs (8)
17) Adolf Eichmann (8)
14) Benito Mussolini (11)
14) Ayatollah Khomeini (11)
14) Emperor Hirohito (11)
13) Ho Chi Minh (13)
12) Kim Il-Sung (14)
10) Kim Jung Il (15)
10) Fidel Castro (15)
9) Osama Bin Laden (18)
8) Idi Amin (21)
6) Yasser Arafat (24)
6) Saddam Hussein (24)
5) Vladimir Lenin (28)
4) Pol Pot (31)
3) Chairman Mao (35)
1) Joseph Stalin (39)
1) Adolph Hitler (39)

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