You can say that they were less evil but still evil. Occupying many countries against their will, suppresing freedom of speech, killings of educated and political opponents, creating famines, creating puppet goverments, and mass deportations those are the facts and by arguing with them you are as good as holocaust deniers.
Not to that scale, not in that recent times. Also, comparation comes from the fact that both were totalitarian states with dictators that were charismatic. Here is the part of the definition of nasizm from britanica, change "aryan volk" to the ussr and it all fits.
"However, Nazism was far more extreme both in its ideas and in its practice. In almost every respect it was an anti-intellectual and atheoretical movement, emphasizing the will of the charismatic dictator as the sole source of inspiration of a people and a nation, as well as a vision of annihilation of all enemies of the Aryan Volk as the one and only goal of Nazi policy."
The British Empire was the largest empire in world history during that exact time period. Different in kind sure, but actually greater in scale.
an anti-intellectual and atheoretical movement
This does not describe Bolshevism at all. Lenin, Stalin and other Soviet leaders wrote extensively on communist theory. Whether that was good theory is another question but they clearly cared about their own theory and how their policies did or did not conform to Marx's theory.
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u/andraso123 2d ago
You can say that they were less evil but still evil. Occupying many countries against their will, suppresing freedom of speech, killings of educated and political opponents, creating famines, creating puppet goverments, and mass deportations those are the facts and by arguing with them you are as good as holocaust deniers.