@graywolf @yogthos @jimray
Always so much propaganda mixed up in such death-toll accounts. The murderers trying to hide and downplay, the cold war opponent trying to overestimate based on accusations from political dissidents.
But no, Stalin (which is whom it's usually about) was probably not 'worse than Hitler'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin?wprov=sfla1