None of it was “mindless propaganda drivel.” If you believe all polling that disagrees with your extremely western framing, even when said polling and statistics are gathered by western orgs, then it’s clear that you don’t actually care about truth or progressive politics, but instead just want to critique society without changing it, tactitly supporting the status quo.

Secondly, equating communists to Nazis is a form of Holocaust trivialization, originating with Double Genocide Theory. Communists have been responsible for the largest and most rapid improvements in quality of life for the working class in history, while Nazis crushed the working class and created industrialized mass murder.