Saying "I am a Marxist" is just as bad as saying "I am a Nazi": Change My Mind
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Nah, Nazism is definitely worse than communism. Hitler's wars of aggression killed tens of millions of people, and that's ignoring his wars on the Jews, the Catholic Church, etc.
The General Plan for the East also envisioned letting tens of millions of Slavs in the east die, far more than would die under communist domination between 1945 and 1989/91. In other words: far fewer people died because Nazism was defeated by the Communists than would have.
Even if I take your ridiculous estimate of 11 million and 100 million (which is closer to the mark) for Nazis and communists respectively: one Nazi regime killed 11 million in 12 years, while numerous different communist regimes killed 100 million in 74 years. Nazis still come out ahead.
If you adopt the correct death count, Nazis come out way ahead. (In part because communism got the chance to moderate from the terrors of Stalin and Nazism never did. If Nazis had survived to their day, they may well have mellowed out and have become relatively benign.)
So you think it's irrelevant for how long these regimes were in power? Surely not. How can you justify comparing 74 years to 12 years?