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It's not secret that Marxists and Fascists hated each other. Then again they hate everyone who isn't from the right groups and doesn't entirely agree with them. Still doesn't change the fact that the Soviets and the Nazis did in fact sign an alliance that led to them invading Poland together... You know, the thing that led France and the UK to declare war on Hitler and officially begin WWII.
That's stupid. Of course there were going to be more deaths from both of them against each other because more soliders fought on the Eastern front than any other front. The Soviet Union and Germany were only two powers on that front. Them exchanging more deaths doesn't mean what you think it does.
Okay, but how this detract from the fact that the Soviets having their own work camps? The Soviet gulags were infamous. They had somewhere between 10 and 20 million prisoners between 1930 and 1953, and about 1 to 2 million were killed.
Go to Berlin or ANY Eastern European country and ask them how the Soviet experience was. You'll find that most people see the Soviets and the Nazis in the same light. They weren't liberators, but ruthless conquerors. The Eastern European countries quickly realized when the Soviets rolled through that they weren't freed, but rather "under new management".
I don't think you understand that the Nazis ≠ Fascism, the Soviets ≠ Marxism, and the Soviets and Nazis fighting each other doesn't make the ideologies opposites. Mussolini, the founder of fascism, was literally a life long Marxist before he created fascism as alternative to the flaws he saw with the socialists at the time. Fascism and Marxism are quite literally sister ideologies.
This idea that these two ideologies are polar opposites stems from Soviet propaganda post war that they used to justify their tyranny and atrocities. It was a tool to keep people in line and purge out opposition. The reality is that they're more similar than different.