Holy crap…principles.
If they were following a Fascist blueprint for dealing with opposition, they couldn't MORE closely resemble those tactics!!
Thinking that 'Communism' and 'Fascism' are two different words and consequently two different agendas, is a jejune, self-deceit. Their objectives and systems are identical. Both are de humanizing and oppressive agendas for wholesale, totalitarian control of people and governments!