Not quite so. They still accumulated vast amount of wealth that they kept frothier families even after retirement. Even the ones that were purged kept the so called “personal” property they had since under communism private property was abolished supposedly. We used to call them the “red aristocracy”. But you can believe the BS that somehow the communists were better than the Nazis. Both ran the countries they took over like their personal fiefdoms and the talk about the “working lass” is the same drivel you hear from the democrats today about the poor, the women, the children, etc. same song, different verse.
Spell check strikes again. Should read working class
That's not what I'm saying at all. Someone not in one of the ethnic groups targeted for extermination was clearly better off in Nazi Germany - it was a capitalist dictatorship with all of the economic benefits that capitalism provides. If he had only one of two choices, a rich Jewish landowner was infinitely better off in Soviet Russia, given that with the Soviets, landowners had the choice* of converting to Marxism-Leninism along with all of its shibboleths (including Party leaders being Marx-anointed high priests of a kind), whereas being a Jew in Nazi Germany meant a one way ticket to a death camp.
* Of course, too many landowners did not understand that the Communists were sociopathic stone killers and complained instead of giving up their land while bowing and scraping and making an escape plan or simply keeping their heads down. They paid the ultimate price. However, many who correctly read the Communists for the pitiless predators they were lived to see the fall of the Berlin Wall.