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Why is it any worse to kill your own people rather than others? Many of those lost in Russia and China was through incompetence rather than malice. Obviously the secret police and riots and such caused a lot of losses but Stalin's 5 year plans were meant to improve the country as a whole as was Mao's Great Leap Forward.
Compare that to deliberately infecting a people with infectious diseases to which they had no immunity, tricking, lying and stealing land whenever they could and eventually forcing them off their homeland to live on small reservations on land "real" Americans didn't want. Also 12 million is quite a bit back in the day. Consider the total population of Russia and China versus the number of deaths whereas the Native American population was reduced by more than 90%.
Anyway, communism isn't inherently evil, there are no real communist countries today. It's an ambitious and optimistic form of government that wouldn't work on a large scale. The closest you get are the kibutzim in Israel and in modern times are much less communal and self sufficient than before. Labeling your country as communist just makes it easier for dictators to control the state more effectively rather than a capitalist republic. Communism is very appealing to the poor and working classes which is why it's initially supported then becomes a socialist dictatorship.
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