Whenever I occassaionally try to remove some of the brainworms of the people around me, whenver they talk about “stalin and hitler being the same”, i mention the fact that if Stalin had been as brutal/genocidal as Hitler had, there would have been no Germans left in any of the Soviet occupied territories. Nazi Germany killed more than 20 million civillians, and if Stalin had actually sought revenge there would not have been anything left of Germany east of the occupation line.