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They use similar terms when talking about the Soviet Union and CPC. It's a thought terminating cliché. "Mao killed 100 million people! It was a genocide against his own people!"
These same people then can't explain how Mao killed 100 million people. Like we know how the Nazis carried out the Holocaust. They primarily used gas chambers and then ovens to cremate the bodies. Others were worked to death. A lot of people were just tortured, shot, hanged, or stabbed.
But when talking about the Four Pests Campaign, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Chinese Civil War, the Warlord Era in general, the Gang of Four, and the Deng reforms? Silence. They don't even know what these words are. Somehow, 100 million people just did that. Mao looked at the grain and it spontaneously combusted, then the army I guess shot anyone who didn't clap for this amazing magic trick.
Then, if you bring any of this up, they look at you with a blank expression before accusing you of Holocaust denial because you say "Yeah, maybe those 100 million landlords, Japanese collaborators, and fascists following Chiang Kai-shek deserved it."