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Apples and oranges. The NAZI regime only last 12 years, and there is no comparable record of post WWII cold war experience (44 years to 89). However, you can roughly compare time period in which both regimes were in existence.
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NAZIS.CHAP1.HTM
Using mid range estimates, between 1933 and 1945 Nazi democide (Hitler) is estimated to be 21 million. Between 1928 and 1945 Soviet Democide (Stalin) is estimated to be 34 million. So during the same time period the Soviets were murdering 2 million a year, while the Nazi's were murdering 1.75 million per year.
Moreover, while Hitler's killing was aimed at specific ethnic groups (the non-Jewish German citizen being mostly safe), the communists arrested and killed anyone of any class or group. The average Soviet citizen was his target of oppression, and the communist regime was far more oppressive (totalitarian) in its rule of everyday life.
Finally, who cares about Gorbachev. He tried to save communism and, instead, destroyed it. Or are you in the habit of comparing reality to hypothetical air castle's?
Gorbachev, and others, prove that mass killing is not a defining characteristic of Communist party regimes; either in theory or in practice.
Should I judge capitalism solely by Pinochet's regime?