Bad, certainly, but not "just as bad." There were no extermination camps in Communist East Germany bringing trainloads of Jews to the ovens like there was under the Nazis. The Nazis wanted to exterminate all the Jews in Europe as if they were a pest, just like you would insects or rats. East German communists, bad as they were, were never that bad.
The "extermination camp" was the majority of the Ukraine when Stalin imposed a forced starvation. In total numbers Stalin murdered more people than Hitler, second only to Mao.
You're right about that. It was worse.
While I agree that communism in East Germany wasn't "just as bad" within the scope of East Germany (ie, vs Nazism in Eastern Germany), when the larger picture is looked at, and Nazism and Soviet Communism are compared, I think it is very reasonable to say that they were approximately equal on the evilometer. Stalin exterminated large parts of eastern Europe by starvation as a means of maintaining control.
Hitler and Stalin= the bloodiest butchers in history.
If you want to go by sheer numbers stalin had hitler beat.
There was a time before in our nation's history when we could defeat such an enemy. That time has passed.