Yes, crudely equating Nazism and Stalinism is wrong, but a) there *are* many obvious parallels, and b) I’m not interested in celebrating “Communism” as a liberating force any more than I am in celebrating UK/US imperialism, which also liberated death camps, as one. 
Trotsky was on the money when he said that the “political apparatus” of Stalinism and fascism “does not differ, save in more unbridled savagery.”
“Communism” (which in this context means “Stalinism”) was an oppressive system, featuring prison camps and enslaved labour. The idea that that system was a force for “liberation” in any consistent sense is as ludicrous as the idea that British colonialism was “liberating”.
Yes, the official memorialisation of the “victims of communism” is largely hegemonised by deeply reactionary and ruling-class forces. But we shouldn’t allow justified and necessary hostility to their political agenda to render us useful idiots for Stalinism.
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