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Did the bolsheviks actually slaughter the rich?
I remember reading about the Killing of the Romanovs~based~ but even that appears to have been an aberration, as iirc communications were down and a quick decision had to be made in the absence of commands from leadership despite previous orders to just guard, in case the white army was coming to free them. Iirc even after all that a surprising number of former white army troops were integrated into the soviet army.
There was also Dekulakization but iirc the deaths there were usually resistors to the decision to distribute the food within Ukraine and food hoarding during a famine.
There was the killing of feudal landlords in China. But that was peasant led, basically once they realized there wasn't Qing, Japanese or Nationalist forces to stop them they acted.
The communists were just let's see how this plays out
Mao eventually sent the army to stop the red guards that were getting out of hand even. It wouldn't have been beneficial in that moment to slap the hand of the people who were just freed from exploitation. Only once they began to threaten the process of rebuilding.