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So, what is the worst thing he did? I mean from what I know he wanted to be a conqueror of sorts, liked Buddhism (that doesn't imply pacifism), restored monarchy and independence of Mongolia and tried to institute some measure of modernization.

Yes, he did have people executed. But he never got close the the numbers accomplished by Lenin and his bolsheviks.

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> Yes, he did have people executed. But he never got close the the numbers accomplished by Lenin and his bolsheviks.

If this is the best “not that bad” comparator you can come up with, I will submit that thing you are using it for is, ipso facto, pretty bad.

Raging anti-semite, wanted to exterminate all the Jews, rode across Asia under a red banner with a white circle containing a swastika (in 1920!) -- where have we heard this before?

He used to ride into villages and round up all the men. Those who were of an age to fight, he conscripted: the rest he put to the sword -- "they'll fight for us in their next incarnation".

He was a proto-Nazi monster with genocidal ambitions.

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