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Why not?
Wikipedia is notoriously untrustworthy and gets brigades heavily by the CIA, especially on topics like this.
For better sources, use this. Look for gulags and the purges you mention and see what is written.
"babe wake up! The Dictator of a capitalist, imperialist country said that insert socialist has killed lots of people"
I find this one fascinating. I'm trying to follow this thought process.
"Stalin is an evil Russian Dictator! and these evil tankies worship him! Putin is also an evil Russian Dictator therefore these evil tankies will agree with anything he says because they like Russian Dictators!"
This person honestly seems to think solely in terms of "sports team politics" and doesn't seem to understand that people can believe or not believe something based on evidence, not on what "their team" says is true.