On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 21:26:55 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>Right wing governments have been pretty good at slaughtering people too.
>The Nazis were responsible for the killing at least 6 million Jews,
>Gypsies homosexuals, intellects and others who they considered to be
>undesirable. They also killed millions in combat.The Japanese
>slaughtered roughly 300,000 in Nanking alone. Nationalist Chinese
>killed more than a million soldiers and another million civilians during
>the civil war. In Spain there were about 5 times as many Communists
>killed than right wingers. About 140,000 Spanish "disappeared" after
>their civil war. There were as many as a million leftists killed in
>Indonesia. Hundreds of thousands have been killed in central and south
>America.
>
>You may or may not be right about the 100 million killed by communist
>regimes. They may or may not have killed more people than the right
>wingers. They left may have killed more people than the right, but
>neither side holds a monopoly.

Of course, a dictatorship isn't a communist regime, even if it calls
itself that. What is true, though, is that every communist regime
sooner or later became a dictatorship.