> The was never a single famine in the Soviet Union after World War 2.
That is technically wrong [0]. But more importantly is the fact that you're arguing that most of the deaths were before WWII - ie, the USSR (single handily!) was comparable to the Nazis even before the Nazis went full Nazi. And then throw China in to the mix. This history is why it is a higher priority to root out powerful domestic Communists than to neutralise the Fascists. Even though both were terrible, the Communists managed to be the scarier of the two, even at the time.
From polish perspective, a nazis told you you are subhuman and treat you like it.
Soviets told you they are your best friend while torturing your brother and using you cousin to snitch on you.
You pick which oppression is worse - overt or covert.
Objectively soviets did way more damage and set Eastern Europe decades back. Under nazis you knew who was the enemy, under soviet everyone was paranoid who the enemy is.
Its still debating which one of your limbs to cut off.
Eh, I’d argue the only reason Eastern Europe might consider the impact of communism worse than Nazi’ism is because Nazi’ism flamed out quickly. So ‘stabbed with a knife once’ instead of ‘punched in the face daily for decades’.
Can you imagine how shitty it would have been if Germany had won WW2?
My guess is 1/4 of the existing population would have survived.
The only reason it wasn’t (quite) that bad is because they didn’t have the time to settle in and only murdered people they could easily find while on their way to the front.
If they had more time (and weren’t fighting a war at the time) the same would have happened but more directly murderous.
Frankly, it’s pretty crazy that they distracted themselves from a massive war (which had quickly turned to a war of survival/attrition) to round up and murder people in areas they had already conquered just because of religious affiliation. But psychos are gonna psycho.
That is technically wrong [0]. But more importantly is the fact that you're arguing that most of the deaths were before WWII - ie, the USSR (single handily!) was comparable to the Nazis even before the Nazis went full Nazi. And then throw China in to the mix. This history is why it is a higher priority to root out powerful domestic Communists than to neutralise the Fascists. Even though both were terrible, the Communists managed to be the scarier of the two, even at the time.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1946%E2%80%93...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet...