The evil intentions?

Does "them" refer to "the evil intentions"?

Context:

The Zeitgeist may move, and move in a generally progressive direc-
tion, but as I have said it is a sawtooth not a smooth improvement,
and there have been some appalling reversals. Outstanding rever-
sals, deep and terrible ones, are provided by the dictators of the
twentieth century. It is important to separate the evil intentions of
men like Hitler and Stalin from the vast power that they wielded in
achieving them. I have already observed that Hitler's ideas and
intentions were not self-evidently more evil than those of Caligula
- or some of the Ottoman sultans, whose staggering feats of nasti-
ness are described in Noel Barber's Lords of the Golden Horn.
Hitler had twentieth-century weapons, and twentieth-century com-
munications technology at his disposal. Nevertheless, Hitler and
Stalin were, by any standards, spectacularly evil men.