I'm no fan of communism but the number 100 million+ is also engineered the other way around, and includes various awful parts of history only tangentially relat

I'm no fan of communism but the number 100 million+ is also engineered the other way around, and includes various awful parts of history only tangentially related to communism, like the Soviet Union's high WW2 death toll. "Excess deaths" is in this case strictly factual.