Saying "I am a Marxist" is just as bad as saying "I am a Nazi": Change My Mind
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Honestly I'd take Nazis over Communists any day. It's not even a contest.
And it really IS no contest. The nazis killed 6 million in camps and the like. That pales in comparison to what the soviets did, and practically vanishes from the scale next to Mao. If Pol Pot had presided over a more populous region, he would reign supreme - dude wiped out a quarter of his own people.
Pinochet is the Posterboy for post-WW2 fascism, and his kill count is in the thousands. Practically a pacifist compared to the communists.
But because some communists won some wars we're expected to pretend they're not mass murdering psychos.
They killed 11 million. 6 were just Jews.
They killed maybe a million at most across half a decade, and much of that number comes later in the war as the situation grew desperate and supply lines were destroyed.
Even going by the numbers that the camp authorities themselves today use it doesn't breach 2 million.
That's wrong by every measurement, including the mass graves scattered across all of Europe, including Romania.
Your thinking of just Auschwitz. The number has since been reduced to somewhere closer to a little over a million for just Auschwitz. The Camp Commandant said that the 3 million Soviet Figure was possible in total deaths, but that executions would have been closer to 2.5. He backtracked and said 2.5 would be too high given the maintenance and logistical needs. Current estimates have revised that figure lower (which is the opposite of the claim by holocaust deniers) and analysis suggest that total deaths at Auschwitz were somewhere over a million.