30 Most Evil People in History

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6. Jiang Qing

It’s good to know that Mao Zedong who comes later on the list was not alone in his ideas, but that he had a full support of his wife, Jiang Qing. She was very successful in terms of her political activism, to the point that she almost reached the place of presidency within the Communist Party. It has been believed that she was the most responsible for the Cultural Revolution, the period that affected China very badly, in both, economic and social terms. Some statistics claim that during the period of 10 years, more than 500,000 of death cases happened.

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