Super Villians

When I think of "super-villains", my mind goes write to comic books, but the truth is that there are real super villains in the world.  Let's not kid ourselves, but there are 5-10 people every century who are brilliant, charismatic, hard-working, determined, and completely immoral.  People who raise to positions of supreme power and do anything to keep that power.  People who have a complete disregard for life for life or liberty.  Often these people raise up through the political, military, intelligence, or business sectors.  There are the most known villains, like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Tojo, and Chiang Kai-shek, but you also have to include Pablo Escobar, Al Capone, Pol Pot, Mohammed Omar, Ratko Mladić, and dozens of others.  There are people who are much worse than murders because they harm people on a mass scale.  People who are responsible for thousands of deaths, rapes,or enslavement either directly or indirectly.  We have seen dictators in every part of the globe.  The point is that these people are real and they are out there.  They will stop at nothing to gain more and more power, sometimes using violence, sometimes using much more clever strategies.   And if you don't think Vladimir Putin fits on this list, please take a look.  He is the most powerful individual in the world, with total control of the world's largest country, with 144 million residents, a Trillion dollar economy, 750,000 soldiers, and 7,000 nuclear weapons.  He controls all of the information/media in his country and imprisons or assassinates anyone who stands up against him.  But since he is not a communist, he is somehow much less dangerous than those who ruled the Soviet Union.  We can't think that things are under control, as history proves this concept completely wrong.  Sadly, these villains are smarter than everyone else, they understand human nature and take advantage of it.