Neither in the USSR nor in China were people starving

Between 20 and 43 million dead between 1959 and 1961 during the so-called “Great Leap Forward”, mainly because of the famine caused by Mao Tse-Tung. It was the greatest famine in the history of mankind. The Dutch historian Franck Dikötter, in “The Great Mao Famine” (2010) raised that figure to 45 million. However, the greatest investigator of this genocide and the one who has accumulated more documentation about him, the Chinese historian Yu Xiguang, figures the dead at 55 million.

There was no freedom of speech, they targeted jews, invaded innocent countries, killed civilians, forced labor camps etc