As much as communism was bad, you may never, never compare it to the nazism.
Nazism is by far worsest thing happened to mankind.
Communism you can survine, Nazism- NOT
Polish General Wladyslaw Anders once told General Patton during WW II, “With the Germans, we lose our lives. With the Russians, we lose our souls.”
Tell that to the 20,000,000 Kulaks..or the 80,000,000 other victims of the RED CENTURY...
Long before WWII Will Rodgers visited the USSR, and he wrote about seeing the trainloads of people headed to Siberia "and nobody had a ticket back except the engineer". F.A. Hayek wrote the classic The Road to Serfdom during WWII, before the liberation of any of the death camps. But he predicted them, in general terms - simply by analogy to the Soviet Union. Because the burden of Serfdom is that from the POV of a liberal - he wrote to a British audience, and did not know that in America in the 1920s the meaning of "liberal" had been inverted - the Nazis and the Communists differed only in nuance. Basically there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two.Of course Hayek knew that the Nazis and the Communists were in a ferocious struggle even as he wrote - but reading his take on the relationship between the two socialisms, I could not but think of a line in a movie, wherein one counselor to the sultan said to another about a scuffle between two princes, "They fight as only half brothers can."
It’s closer to the other way around. The Nazis only (only!) murdered about 11 million people, drawing from most of Europe. The Soviets murdered about ten times that many soviet citizens alone, not counting their massacres elsewhere. Of the two, the Nazis were actually the less bloodthirsty. They were also less oppressive to the people they didn’t murder.
It takes some doing to make the Nazis look civilized, but the Soviets managed it.