The Communists were perceived as being for the “downtrodden”, while the Nazis were all about the “Master Race”.
But what’s funny is that Stalin governed more like Hitler, and in the Soviet Union, the Russians were the “Master Race”, despite Stalin and his cronies not being ethnic Russians. Stalin even rehabilited Czarist heroes, like Ivan The Terrible and Aleksandr Nevsky.
“The Communists were perceived as being for the “downtrodden””
As we here know, that isn’t true. Unfortunately that hasn’t been taught.
When it came to killing Communist Russians and non Communist Russians nobody came close to Old Joe Stalin.