Man you read what I write in the worst possible way. You seriously think I am suggesting that mass murder is okay if it happens by accident? That is seriously deranged and the most uncharitable and vile interpretation possible of what I wrote.
You accuse me of being naive, yet you have a truely naive idea of Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany was full of competing factions and internal conflicts. Just read up on the night of the long knives. They rutlessly killed people they deemed as potential competition even if they where all ideologically the same.
Honestly I don't know where you are going with this? You confuse an ideology with the practices of a man who was seriously paranoid. Stalin was driven more by paranoia than by communist ideology in how he randomly killed people.
Mikhail Gorbachev was also a communist and leader of a communist regime. Do you think his rule in any way resembled that of Stalin? If arbitrary mass murder was an inherent trait of communism, then why did Mikhail Gorbachev not have people randomly executed? Where was the Gulags? Are they not intrinsic to communism?
I am not a fan of communism myself, and certainly not of Stalinism. But I think there is this very clear agenda to try to characterize communism in the worst possible way by cherry picking the worst people and incidents from history, and thus by extension smearing anything related to socialism.
Reality is that socialism/communism has many branches. Some are more prone to get into dictatorship. But there are socialists and communists who are firmly behind the idea of democracy. This is where Nazism and Fascism diverge strongly. There is no democratic Fascism. It is always authoritarian. Contemporaries of Stalin had many socialists critizing his oppression. Where was the "democratic" Fascists criticizing Hitler and Mussolini? There was none.
In a contemporary setting that matters. In modern Western democracies, somebody like Stalin is completely implausible. However some version of HItler is not. Any charismatic far-right politician appealing to our most uncharitable instincts can fill that role.
