If Reds continue to smear conservatives, especially to defend Communism, you have to conclude that it is because they love Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Kruschev, Castro, et al.
Stalin alone killed more people than Hitler (20 million compared with 10 million).
Yet the Left does not find Stalin to be as evil as Hitler. Go figure.
Nazism was just socialism with more overt racism. However, at least the Nazis were more honest about their intentions than the Communists ever were or ever have been. Perhaps that was why the Nazis met their downfall sooner and are now almost universally despised as history's bad guys. Because their greater honesty and the sheer brazenness of their wicked deeds made it impossible for the left to apologise for them and be taken seriously. I have no doubt in my mind that the left would damn Stalin as a right-wing extremist if they could. But those on the left who are not Stalin apologists generally tend to see him as a cynical imposter who was pretending to be a communist or socialist so he could satiate his lust for power. However, even the most agile of leftist mental gymnasts would struggle to credibly portray Stalin as a right-winger, despite their roaring success in applying the label to Hitler and the Nazis and transferring the taint of the latter on to the right wing ideological spectrum they so despise....