You’re right and that’s a good example.
And when Stalin died, many in the camps wept.
I had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector. He helped “handle” people like Ted Kennedy and other useful idiots/sympathizers when they visited the Soviet Union. We learned a lot from him.
American leftists are like monkeys; they dance to the tune of the organ grinder.