You're literally support atrocities and tyranny. You have zero friends because you're fundamentally evil. This is why when someone as soulless as you tries to pretend that they have some moral ground, it can only ever be taken as a joke. The "liberal" pejorative only exists in your head as a way to project your own evil on to others to cope with such a disgusting worldview
There it is, you're an evil piece of shit who actually supports these atrocities. You don't care about the validity of the sources because you you never cared about what the facts are. To parasitic bootlicking enthusiasts such as yourself, cruelty is the point. You give nazis a run for their money when it comes to tyrannical monsters.
This isn't something new, controversial, or some hidden secret. It's something that's academically studied and well documented. This was literally the USSR's go to propaganda tactic when it was still around. Literally only out of touch tankies cannot comprehend common knowledge like this.
A big part of Soviet propaganda is their use of whataboutism is deflect criticism against their regime. Supporters of the USSR and far left ideologies have inherited this tactic, which is why whenever you see anybody criticize someone on the far left, they always resort to using whataboutism, especially about the US. It's recycled material from a dead regime.
This is the type of psychotic shit that help remind me that this shitty ideology and its supporters are evil monsters who should never get anywhere near power. It's no wonder that Communist regimes gave Fascist regimes a run for their money and then some when it comes to committing atrocities and tyranny.
This is an ignorant argument because the ideology of communism is not the communist utopia. These are two distinct concepts.
Marx and Engels were both notorious authoritarians who made fun of the pacifist socialists of their time for being too weak and cowardly, and they preached violence for as long as they lived, and this reflected in their works. The communist ideology as described by them has three stages:
A violent revolution that overthrows capitalism
A tyrannical transitional socialist state that rules with an iron fist on the "behalf of the workers" is tasked with protecting the revolution by any means and bringing about the social conditions necessary to realize communism (dictatorship of the proletariat)
Actually realizing communism
Since communism is a utopia, it will never, ever be achieved, and so the communist ideology will always get stuck on stage 2 forever... and that's exactly what we've seen in history. Every single communist attempt in history that has resulted in a successful violent revolution ended up being tyrannical hellhole with a regime that always swore that communism was around the corner but they're not quite there yet.
The only people who try to conflate the communist utopia with the communist ideology are Marxists who are too disingenuous to admit that their crappy ideology is in fact inherently violent and inherently authoritarian. No amount of True Scotsman fallacies about "real" communism is going to change reality. Those were real communist attempts, those were real communist policies, and those were real communist principles at work. No, it's not fascism, it's communism. This is what the ideology results in every single time. No amount of attempts is going to change the inevitable outcome. People forget, but Fascism and Communism are sister ideologies. They're not opposite ideologies, but adjacent ones.
Wikipedia isn't the source moron, it's just an aggregator of info. The actual source is the Soviet Union itself because they did this, and they left behind quite a lot of victims and documents for us to see what they did.
The point still stands that left wing authoritarians like Marxists and right wing authoritarians like Fascists tend to mirror each other in policy because there's so much overlap with the authoritarianism.
You would have to be terminally online to be upset over something this trivial