The numbers don't lie. The hard-left authoritarians killed far more people than any other ideology this world has yet seen.
As far as "conservative" authoritarians killing mass numbers of people, the biggest I can come up with are: (i) Classical Conservative (Monarchist) King Leopold of Belgium, who presided over a genocide of some 1-3 million in The Belgium Congo / The Congo Free State (not so "free" in reality), and (ii) the predecessors of our best pals today: Japan -- Imperial Japan of the 1930s-1940s. A sort of Classical Conservative ancient "divine, man-god" inherited Monarchy that went on an expansionist rampage and killed millions--especially in China.
Both are Monarchist, Classical Conservatives ala Hapsburg-type-stuff. These are the sorts that Classical Liberalism pushed against. This is not what is commonly called "Conservative" today. It barely exists anymore outside the Middle East.
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