He’d have more of a leg to stand on, if once they “liberated” eastern europe, they didn’t spend the next 45 or so years oppressing it.
They merely traded one set of chains for the other. But I will say, there was at least one silver lining, the Soviets didn't impose importing millions of third-world dregs onto those countries, unlike what the West did. As a result, today, Poland and Hungary can still maintain their Western Christian heritage.