This makes sense. Here's the four I got from you: 1. History is fairly inconsistent. 2. The Nazis were across-the-board evil, whereas the Communists at least

This makes sense. Here's the four I got from you: 1. History is fairly inconsistent. 2. The Nazis were across-the-board evil, whereas the Communists at least pretended to have some decent intentions. 3. The big one which makes sense - the governments and descendants of the fascist areas owned up to what they did and denounced it. Most places don't. 4. Finally, no real theatrics or drama at the end. Communism just slowly eroded and died, there were no cities sacked or surrenders signed. Good points: #3 was the biggest one I hadn't considered enough. That said, I've traveled around the world some, have friends who had parents in the Communist Party, and have an older acquaintance whose family were Polish resistance fighters to the Nazis later turned black marketers/Polish underground. Pretty much everyone with exposure to Communism thinks it was a pretty awful thing, on pretty much all levels. Berlin's got to be the most obvious example: You can walk through old, pre-WWII Berlin neighborhoods (beautiful), Allied post-WWII Berlin neighborhoods (pretty nice), and Soviet post-WWII neighborhoods (very ugly, foreboding, and dreadful aside from what the citizens have made of it recently). It's a pretty incredible contrast. But the way you outlined it makes sense - great points, and thanks for shedding some light.