instead of realizing that the propaganda about socialists and Communist States is highly ideologically motivated and misleading, instead thought that it was extremely cool and that we should be doing the black book of communism unironically.

Yep. Just look at how many of these ACP clowns (and other terminally online communists) praise the NKVD without mentioning that this police force was compromised by the opposition. The excessive killings done by the NKVD during the “purges” was supposed to destabilize soviet power. Stalin was mostly unaware of this crap and had to send in Beria to figure what was going on. The historian Grover Furr is great at dispelling the myth that the soviets perpetrated senseless purges, when in reality it was those who opposed soviet power who were fucking shit up