More important? Yes.
Worse? Also yes.
If it hadn't been for the opening up of China we would not be on the brink of WWIII at the moment, because there would never have been a "Rise of China" scenario.
Ding dong the witch is dead.
Thank god. He may have been our monster but that doesn't help the fact that he was a monster. Life is generally better when our own acknowledged war criminals are safely ensconced in history rather than in the papers.