Howdy @SpikeTalon,

Only Adolf Hitler, who wanted to exterminate the Slavs, could have granted legitimacy to the Soviets, who merely wanted to enslave them. They were given a choice between Hannibal Lector and Vito Corleone and they accepted the least horrible option

They started out as buddies with the Nazi's in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

commemoration of victims of war has gradually become a state-organised militarist pursuit that overshadows Soviet regime’s crimes, ineptitude and war-time human suffering. Such national efforts have lately increasingly focused on the distortion of facts concerning the beginning of the war and on justifying Soviet Union leadership’s criminal activities

Amen to that!

May 7, 2022 - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill (HB) 395, establishing November 7 as “Victims of Communism Day” to honor the hundreds of millions of people who have suffered under communist regimes across the world.
The Soviet Union and China are by far the two most egregious examples of Mass extinction of human beings independently and collectively in both countries.
Its difficult to believe that the estimated number of deaths that occurred because of the 3r Reich - Nazi Germany - almost pales in comparison to the numbers rightfully attributable to China and the Soviet Union - all in the name of Communism.
The numbers are all but completely incomprehensible to the human mind - it is what prompted Josef Stalins infamous dismissive quote:

"The death of one man is a tragedy - the deaths of millions is a statistic"

These TRUTHS about the profound evil known as Communism must NEVER be allowed to fade.