It's a general rule that a claim gets exaggerated each time it's re-cited.

Case in point being the black book of communism. It started with moderate Hearst media fabrications, which were picked up on, expanded and exaggerated by Nazis, which in turn got exaggerated by US/UK intelligence operatives, and so on.

This is, in broad strokes, how one gets from a million or two tragic deaths during the last famine in the history of Russia and the component nations of the Soviet Union more broadly to tens of millions of dead Ukranians in a genocide of staggering proportions.

Counting dead nazis as victims of communism is up there tbh

Really, only one? Not the "muh gulags"? Not the zerg rush red army? Not the "USSR only made rubber shoes and cast iron", courtesy of putin?

I think you've been out of the loop for very long, because now, for example:

The presence of 2 teapots in a certain seat of the National People's Congress of the PRC indicates a power struggle and dominance of Xi Jinping against "mere political opponents" (whereas before, a wacky power struggle would be indicated loudly and publicly, as such by public polemics, during the Cultural Revolution)

The absence of Kim Jong Un in 2020 indicates he has died, even though he appeared back again (whereas before, in the Soviet Union, when nobody heard of Stalin in a long time during the 1930s-1940s, some thought he died)

Name any more new anti-communist claims and they're more likely a rhythm of what was said before in the past....