The first thing the Bolshevicks did in Russia 1917-1923 was get rid of the very ones that brought them into power - The radicals, intellectuals, politicians, professors, doctors, theologians, etc (they tolerated the Semites, at first, then realized that collective as a whole was also dangerous - off to the gulags went the rabbi's). Christians, took the brunt. 12 million killed 1932-33 in the Ukraine alone (Holodomor). WW2
under Stalin another 20 million. So, depopulating their useful idiots is in their playbook.
The first thing the Bolshevicks did in Russia 1917-1923 was get rid of the very ones that brought them into power - The radicals, intellectuals, politicians, professors, doctors, theologians, etc (they tolerated the Semites, at first, then realized that collective as a whole was also dangerous - off to the gulags went the rabbi's). Christians, took the brunt. 12 million killed 1932-33 in the Ukraine alone (Holodomor). WW2 under Stalin another 20 million. So, depopulating their useful idiots is in their playbook.