Before making a substantive comment, I have one quibble: it is an absolutely false statement or point of view to believe that the Nazis were right wing. The name of the party, translated into English, is the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Emphasis on Socialist. The only real difference between the Nazis and the Communists is that the Communists believed in fomenting revolution everywhere at once, whereas the Nazis believed in concentrating in one nation and then moving on to others. In terms of the effect on the population, there was no real difference, with the sole exception of the genocidal policies of the Nazis. However, Stalin proved that the Russian Left this also had genocidal policies toward ethnic minorities. What he did to the Ukrainian farmers was horrific, and there is ample evidence that he planned to deport millions of Jews to Siberia shortly before his death. So, again, there is no difference between these Leftists, other than how they present themselves to the outside world.
Now on to substance.
I, just like the author of this piece, had relatives who were victims of both the Nazis and the Communists. On my mother’s side, roughly 100 distant cousins, aunts and uncles were murdered by those German Leftist bastards. On my father’s side, my father’s paternal grandfather had everything that he ever worked for stolen from him in the early 1920s (including a water distribution business and 14 houses that he built with his sons), and was later beaten so badly in prison in 1937, as a 74 year old man, that he died shortly after he was released. In other words, they murdered him. [As an aside, I remember that when my grandfather came back from a visit to his family in the Soviet Union in 1969, and he cried like a baby. I did not know why at the time, but I do know now that he first found out on this trip what had happened to his father]. The rest of my father’s family, with the exception of my grandfather and one of his older brothers, were stuck in a gigantic open-air prison known as the Soviet Union for roughly 75 years. There was literally no single day when they did not wonder whether the NKVD or the KGB would come and do to them what they had done to my great-grandfather. That is the record of the Russian Leftists, at least insofar as my family is concerned.
I have studied these people (Leftists) for my entire life. As far as I have been able to discern, the only difference between them is that the Russian ones were more patient and therefore more dangerous. They had, and implemented, long-range plans that are still bearing poisonous fruit throughout the world. They infiltrated American and British universities and the media in the 1920s and ‘30s, and we are far from done in terms of the effects of how this mass poisoning of the Western mind has affected our society. They set up puppet regimes throughout the world, many of which are still in existence, and still murdering and torturing people by the millions. They funded, armed and trained dozens of terrorist organizations throughout the world, and those groups are still murdering people by the hundreds or thousands each year. While the German Leftists were more dangerous on the surface, and certainly more brutish and fear-inspiring, in the long run the Russian Leftists left a far worst Legacy for humanity than the German ones ever did.
For the record, I despise the Communists as much as I despise the Nazis. The same goes for any person who advocates for or defends the Communists, just like those who advocate for or defend the Nazis. They are two sides of the same coin, both evil personified.
Near the end of Soviet Union hardline Commies were known as Conservatives and centrist Socialists like Gorbachev were called Liberals there.
Stalin himself didn’t believe he was far left. Trotskites were called ‘left-lean’ and they were the enemy no less than ‘fascists’.