[dzhiurgis]

> Rarely does the overthrower act better than the despot.

Have you got examples of this? In Russian history it always was better.

[llampx]

Pinochet, for one. US-backed coup d'etat overthrowing a democratically-elected government. For more you can read the Wikipedia article United States involvement in regime change

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

[dzhiurgis]

Lets start with deaths of their own...

Lenin - 200k executions, 5 million deaths due to famines

Stalin - 800k executions, 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag, plus some famine and some miscellaneous brings to around 5million, some estimates upwards 20 million.

Everything after that sounds like a breeze.

Now for the involvement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_c...

Do I even need to bother looking how much communism had done around world?