It’s interesting you’re so frothingly reactionary you took me saying:

an (obviously false) equivalence between the Nazis and Communists in an active way; or even insinuate the Nazis were better (which is definitional Nazi apologia)

ie. me saying: “The Communists are better than the Nazis and anyone trying to convince you otherwise is engaging in Nazi apologia”

you instead took that as me saying: “Stalin did nothing wrong” and throw out an ethnicized slur toward Russians (who were only one of the hugely diverse groups of nationalities within the Soviet Union. Stalin himself was Georgian, even).

You’re so reactionary and so sympathetic toward the Nazis that you just made up a thing I didn’t say to start about.

There were certainly things Stalin got wrong, and also many things he got right. He was a person. A human being; and part of the first socialist experiment ever tried in history. There were failures, and also great successes. It’s an incredible history which you seem to be too irrationally hate-filled and stunted-in-curiosity to ever recognize and learn from. And in all of this — the Soviet communists were, and are, forever incomparably better than the Nazis. Or their collaborators. Or for that matter the European colonialists and their US offshoots who were doing what Hitler did and worse for hundreds of years in Africa and the Americas, etc. which served as Hitler’s inspiration and original material support system. And anyone who doesn’t think so and says otherwise, is a literal Nazi apologist — and also irresponsibly historically illiterate.

And some things you can never take away from Stalin’s leadership, try and wish as you might, is the rapid industrialization into a formidable superpower of the USSR in 1/12 of the time and human cost it took the capitalist-colonialist world, and the subsequent defeat of the Nazis; after which the USSR, having collectivized and industrialized, ended the every-decade famines that rocked the region for its entire history previously, built mass housing to end homelessness and had expanded healthcare and education to everyone developing it to world-class levels, and even providing free travel and education for students, scientists, teachers, doctors, and fighters and commanders and leaders of independence and other revolutionary struggles from around the world including in the imperialized and colonized countries which “the West” kept in squalor and subjugation; which sustained even after his death the means to educate, train, and arm the people of colonized nations to gain their independence and assert themselves on the world stage — paving the way to some of the great multipolar projects we see today. This, no matter what tantrums you throw or complaints you levy toward the mistakes that were made, will never be taken away from the era of his leadership. And you may clutch your pearls, but the much of the global south thinks very differently than you do on this topic. May be worth considering why that is.