Mao Zedong

It's hard to imagine any fictional villain half as fiendish as the real-life warlords, tyrants, and pirates in these new Wicked biographies. Bet you can't read just one! He presented himself as a man of the people and promised to turn the most populous country on earth into a worker's paradise. But the reality of life in Mao Zedong's Communist China was a different story entirely, marked by widespread famine and inhumane policies that cost tens of millions of lives.