You are both right, of course.
Classic agitprop use events in the 1192 to EXCUSE events in 2015.
Of course he could have been more current say..
he 1979 in Cambodia.. oops Communists
1961 great leap forward in china.. oops again Communists
1945.. NSDAP wait that was National Socialists
1930’s The terror. oops Communists.
Seems to be thread there....