Apparently you never heard of the Holodomor, where the USSR killed millions of Ukrainians, https://www.britannica.com/event/Holodomor...most people WOULD make a deal with the devil or anyone else to throw off such a deadly yoke. As for the criminally deadly nature of the post war USSR...some estimates from Wiki; "Historians such as J. Arch Getty, Stephen G. Wheatcroft, and others, insist that the opening of the Soviet archives has vindicated the lower estimates put forth by the revisionist school.[70][71] In 2011, after assessing twenty years of historical research in Eastern European archives, American historian Timothy D. Snyder stated that Stalin deliberately killed about 6 million, which rise to 9 million if foreseeable deaths arising from policies are taken into account.[72][73] American historian William D. Rubinstein concluded that, even under most conservative estimates, Stalin was responsible for the deaths of at least 7 million people, or about 4.2% of USSRs total population.[74] . This is on the order of Hitler's Holocaust.