There have always been people who escaped Communist countries telling us the same thing -- that Communism is a murderous, nightmare tyranny -- because EVERY Communist regime has been alike in that regard.
For example:
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror Repression (written by a group of leftist European intellectuals who researched every Communist nation of the 20th Century; most were actually Marxists, and were all horrified by what they found.) -- very expensive book but worth having if the cost isn't an issue for you.
There have always been people who escaped Communist countries telling us the same thing -- that Communism is a murderous, nightmare tyranny -- because EVERY Communist regime has been alike in that regard.
For example:
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror Repression (written by a group of leftist European intellectuals who researched every Communist nation of the 20th Century; most were actually Marxists, and were all horrified by what they found.) -- very expensive book but worth having if the cost isn't an issue for you.
Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 5th PRINTING Edition by R.J. Rummel. -- Less expensive but still not cheap.
You can read some of the information in Rummel's book here, at his website. For example:
28,168,000 VICTIMS: THE DEKA-MEGAMURDERERS
Note that it isn't just Communist nations that mass-murder "their own" people, but rather ANY nation that suffers under a real tyranny.
THIS IS WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING: a group that WILL kill its opponents and enslave those who are left. It doesn't matter what they call themselves.
President Trump understands what china's communists were and remain
Sad but true. Most of us knew this 60 years ago. Some of us need the basics because there's no idea of the reality.