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> Soviet Communism is unironically less bad than the [United States]

There is one sense in which I agree with that. The main point that I'll make here is that the Soviet Union was immediately deeply pathological from the get-go, but it tended to become *less* pathological as time passed. Today, all of these liberal democratic republics and whatever else they call themselves are becoming *more* pathological. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that the Soviet Union would eventually reverse course and follow suit if it had survived for longer.

At least one Western Far-Right publication noted during the Cold War that, on certain topics tabooed in the West both then and today, such as racial differences, Soviet academia at some point had actually became *less* censorious than its Western counterparts. We know this because the Western academe had numerous journals that chiefly or only published translated academic articles from Marxist states. This shed light on what academic life was like in the Soviet Union.

Indeed, whilst this is debatable, one could make a good case that the Soviet Union had already shifted Rightward of the United States by the 1980s, such that it is indubitable that today's Russian Federation is Rightward of today's United States.

People in doubt would benefit from the reminder that Putin's government has made laws *against* LGBT (indeed, I seem to recall that all displays of LGBT nonsense are no longer allowed on television?), whereas America and the post-Euromaidan Ukraine are moving in the other direction. For instance, Zelensky, I believe, has said that he will seriously consider legalizing same-sex 'marriage' once the war is over. Never mind the fact that a clear majority of Ukrainians do not (yet) support it.

Of course, those who might accuse us of 'Putinism' and 'Sovokism' and other such things would also benefit from the reminder that the Putin government has either failed or made no attempt to curb Russia's rampant abortion, alcoholism, and drug use, has actively promoted mass immigration, and is just as opposed to the (actual) Far-Right and perceived 'Nazis' as are Western countries. But there is little reason for anyone to single out the Russian government for doing the things that the governments under which we live are also doing, as some anti-Russian 'Far-Right' persons do.

They expressed fury when Belarus on two or so occasions sent a few dozen or hundred refugees to Poland's border: if only they would direct that fury at their own country's governments for the hundreds of thousands if not millions of foreigners that they let in.

Of course, Belarus was essentially trolling the West: refugees are good *except* when our 'enemies' in Belarus and Russia send them to us, and then we become 'xenophobic' all of a sudden. We know that they are trolling because Belarus remains the most European country of all: if Lukashenko really believed that they were our greatest strength and all that jazz, he would not collect them only to send them to Poland. Even an actor possessing only the smallest morsel of rationality would never send his enemies whatever it is that he believes is his greatest strength. He would instead bestow millions of these greatest strengths, these refugees, upon Belarus, which would surely become a world superpower after receiving enough greatest strengths.

In fact, we can just compare the West to Red China. I have seen no indication that the Chinese academe is embracing delusional race denialism. I have observed other things that suggest to me that Red China is now less dogmatic and ideological, less radical, and more rational than the United States. It is not China who threatened Uganda over its anti-LGBT laws; it is not China who pressured Botswana to decriminalize homosexuality to then laud it as some kind of national achievement. *Au contraire*, it is the United States and its allies, all of them becoming more ideological and irrational, that are engaged in this struggle to impose their culture and liberalism on the rest of the world.