What specifically are you referring to as “the atrocities wrought in their names?” Who are these “too many dead?” Capitalists love framing Nazis killed by the Red Army and the like as “victims of communism,” or deaths from famines that were primarily driven by forces outside communist control like adverse weather conditions. I’m not saying no excess has ever happened under communists, but I am saying that westerners distort it to a cartoonish degree in order to maintain cultural hegemony.