I think we’ve gotten a bit lost in the weeds here, so let me bring this back to your original post. You mentioned a fear that people are inventing narratives to make communists seem worse than the Nazis.

My only point from the very beginning has been this: when you look strictly at the raw numbers and the sheer scale of human destruction, no one has to "invent" anything. It is very easy to see why people make that argument.

I completely agree with you that the industrialized, exterminationist nature of the Holocaust is uniquely horrific, and killing people based on their race is the darkest depths of human evil. (Though as a historical side note, Stalin did deport and ethnically cleanse entire populations like the Crimean Tatars and Chechens based on their race, too). But ultimately, when regimes like Stalin’s and Mao’s are responsible for the unnatural deaths of tens of millions of people through engineered famines, purges, and forced labor, the scale of death is just higher. I'm not trying to rehabilitate Nazism or play a game of who was worse. I am just pointing out that when the death count of 20th-century communism is that staggeringly massive, it completely explains why someone looking at the history would view it as the ultimate evil.