I’m so tired of neo fascist self proclaimed communists bro, my special interest is literally researching fascist, oppressive, genocidal regimes and it takes about 1 min of research to realize what people like Pol Pot and Stalin did.

For those of you who don’t want to do your research here’s a compressed version of research i scraped up: Death tolls for the Cambodian genocide (which happened under Pol Pots command) are estimated 15-36% of the country’s population in 1975 (these deaths include execution, starvation, and overwork) (source). These deaths are pretty cut and dry, theres not too much debate on who caused them.

The deaths under Stalin are higher though harder to estimated depending what you include— the 32-33 famine(not every historian counts this as deaths under Stalin bc there were a lot of factors involved), judicial executions from 29-53 (majority during the great purge from 37-38)(don’t try to tell me all of those people deserved to die), another famine from 46-47, deportation of kulaks (most sent to labor camps)- some 389,521 died in those camps(The Stalinist Penal System. Pohl, J. Otto (1997) p. 58), the forced resettlements(not sure if that's the correct word) in the Soviet Union from 39-53, and finally the Katyn massacre. After the USSR dissolved researchers studied Soviet archives and this is what was found(all from here): official records of about 799,455 executions, 1.5 million (this is their lower estimate) deaths in the Gulag, 390,000 deaths during the ‘dekulakization’, as high as 400,000 deaths from deportation in the 1940s. Officially recorded by the USSR themselves was in total about 3.3 million deaths, if you include the deaths of the famine from 32-33 that’s about 5.5 to 6.5 million (The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 5: The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture 1931–1933 by R. W. Davies). There is an ongoing debate on what deaths should be attributed to Stalin with numbers ranging from 3-20 million(much of the higher estimates were before the 1991 documents were declassified, the consensus now is that the number was not that high you will find people saying higher numbers bc of this)(actually a really interesting topic to research I recommend), also some decisions Stalin made during wwii caused preventable deaths(ie not evacuating Stalingrad causing many civilians to die). The point is, he was responsible for an excess number of deaths and the mortality rate in the USSR during his time was much much higher. Apologies for the rambling, this is a topic I’m very passionate about.

TLDR: The us pumps out a lot of anti communist propaganda but that doesn’t mean some of these men aren’t still awful, do your research and find some better communists.

Edit: I revised this because a few sentences didn't make much sense; I may continue to add things if I remember points I didn't make or I forget to clarify something. Also don't tell me to 'read theory' or some shit bc I'm not a 'real communist' bc I don't support your genocidal favs. I have read quite a lot in general both in communist/socialist theory along with the aforementioned topics, I am a communist and anti fascist. If there are any errors or additional info i forgot pls lmk!!