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.
I agree, but given the choice between a post-war communist East Europe or a post-war Nazi East Europe (and that was the only choice we had), I think most people (Churchill and Roosevelt certainly) would go with a post-war communist-dominated east. Patton alone was probably the sole dissenter to that decision in any position of power.