I dont get the smiles. If it's to be condescending because i said commies lie, i dont necessarily mean all people who identify as communists. Im talking about communist leadership, particularly of the soviet variety, but Also of the north Korean, chinese, or cuban styles as well, from the 1917 revolution onward. Even the leaders that tried to back away from the personality cult of stalin i.e. kruschev, did so for self interested reasons. Even Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika were still limited to the expansion of the communist paradigm, just a multifaceted approach that incorporated elements from trotskyism, eurocommunism, and marxism, while still discouraging a free market.
The closest thing to good leadership in Russia was yelstin and everyone hated him for playing grab ass with the west.
Im highlighting this to say the people of the ussr, or the other countries i mentioned, were normal good people.
An analogy can be drawn here to islam. Isis follows the koran fundamentally, the wahabi leaders abide and encourage this, which makes it impossible for the peaceful muslims to live and practice islam spiritually. So when i say i think muslims lie, im speaking of the ayatollah khomeini, not the average muslim person. And in the same way islamic extremism hurts the much larger majority of moderate muslims more than any other group, the ideology of communism has hurt more communists than any other group. So to recapitulate; the doctrines of communism are bad, but communists = people = good. The koran, if followed fundamentally is bad, but muslims = people = good.