What started as far right crankdom in the Black Book of Communism 10 years ago has gone mainstream, with the allegation that Communism has over 100 million "victims".
This count of victims now includes the (newly estimated at 42 million) Russian deaths defending the Soviet Union from the Nazis. Those should fairly be assessed as victims of Naziism.
As is quite often done when assessing deaths in "enemy" countries, declines in birthrate due to things like freer abortion adds to the count of victims.
Noam Chomsky pointed out that applying the same methodology to India would show it had over 100 million "Victims of Capitalism" in just 3 decades, and more since.
Grayzone has a good debunking.
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