How many dictators like Mao and Stalin does it take for everyone to know communism = terror?

[SpaceAce]

Communism doesn't equal dictatorships, censorship and poverty. It's not communism that leads to these things, it's these things that have led to communism. People (and especially the workers) were sick of the greedy factory bosses and demanded more rights and better wages, that's how socialism sort of started, as a solution to the oppression of the lower classes.

Over time it evolved into communism, which really is something entirely different. Basically, communism is an extreme form of socialism, often combined with the oppression of the people to make sure this system cannot be challenged and overthrown by the people. It works great in theory, everyone is equal and no-one is poor. Unfortunately communism has always had bad leaders that oppress the people and ruin this system.

The point I'm trying to make here, is that it's not the fault of socialism and communism, it's the fault of bad leadership and problems that were already there. And in the case of Russia, well it has always had bad and oppressive leaders.

P.S. Hitler wasn't a socialist..He hated communists, possibly even more than he hated jews.