Communist Holocaust Denial

Neo-Nazis and white supremacists in general have a nasty habit of either downplaying or completely denying the Holocaust. Neo-Nazis especially confuse me when they do this because eradicating the Jews was a key platform of Nazism. But I digress. On the other side of the mass murder philosophical spectrum, communists flip their shit whenever somebody downplays or denies the Holocaust. This is notable because after they finish flipping their shit, they go and do the same thing:

Students at a leading London university have been condemned as blind to reality after defending the system of Soviet Gulag labour camps where thousands perished as “compassionate” places of rehabilitation.

Trans rights campaigners at Goldsmiths University described the Gulags as benign places where inmates received education, training and enjoyed the opportunity to take part in clubs, sports and theatre groups.

I linked to this story in particular because it came across my news feed but it's nowhere near an isolated incident. Where Neo-Nazis deny the Holocaust, communists deny the horrors inflicted by communist governments. Tankies, an especially loathsome breed of communist, are the worst offenders and almost always act as apologists for the mass murder perpetrated by the Soviet Union. But communists in general will either downplay or deny acts of democide committed by the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, German Democratic Republic, and other communist regimes. If they don't downplay or deny the acts, they label the regimes "not real communism."

Ultimately every apologist for any flavor of statism will come face to face with democide committed by their preferred governmental system. Assuming they find democide distasteful, they will need to account for it. Pathetically most of them will try to downplay or deny the democide ever happened.