When Nazism from 80 years ago is more important than the suffering of millions of contemporaries subjected to the oppressive totalitarianism of "communist" regimes.
You're lucky! You weren't born in North Korea or Cuba. You don't live in either of those countries, although you probably live in Brazil, just like me. In this country, which, while far from being Switzerland, is at least not absolutely worse than those other two countries mentioned (until this year, 2026).
You don't live totally subjugated to a totalitarian government. Err, I mean, not yet... Although it seems we are heading towards a future more similar to the Cuban and North Korean present...
You don't live without being able to travel or leave your country with government authorization; afraid to say something "wrong" and be punished with forced labor or even death (although you can already be punished by the state if you commit certain "thoughtcrimes"); Without any autonomy, even minimal, over your own lives; in poverty, forced into constant rationing of food, energy, water... While the political elite of their country live in much better conditions... You don't live entirely within a lie maintained by perverse government officials: abandoned, treated literally like cattle on a farm, your spirit and body slaughtered daily until those days become years, decades..., and seeing your best years slip through your fingers, until you grow old without ever knowing what it is to have abundant food and the freedom to express yourselves, to dress, to come and go...
That's why I feel true compassion for these people who cannot enjoy what I have or can, which is still little, but minimally sufficient. I feel sorry for every North Korean and Cuban who would like, at least, to have the right to leave their countries and try to improve their lives outside of them. But not even that. They live in an existential limbo, in a kind of hell on Earth... And even if there are no extermination camps or official statistics of genocides perpetrated by their governments, it is not difficult, for anyone who still maintains some level of logical-rational reasoning, to associate them with other governments or social systems that, throughout history, have also caused great human suffering, such as Nazism. If I could be bolder and suggest that Cuba and North Korea are like two concentration camps of considerable physical dimensions, after all, their inhabitants are directly subjected to totalitarian social systems, not unlike what happened to prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. The biggest difference is that there is not, explicitly speaking, a routine of (immediate and explicit) mass murders. But it is not an exaggeration to conclude that they suffer so much in life that as if this constant pain accelerates the natural obsolescence of their organisms, leading to the premature death of many of them, especially the most vulnerable. While capitalist societies can also exhibit variably high levels of suffering, especially in third-world countries, which contrast sharply with the more humanized version of capitalism, social democracy...
But then, we have a likely majority of leftists silent about the suffering of inhabitants of countries like Cuba and North Korea, precisely those who claim to fight against social injustice and oppression; who advocate for solidarity, freedom, and equality... A likely majority that tends to be obsessed with certain historical periods and uses them as prime examples of human selfishness and cruelty, such as Nazism, which emerged and established itself as the dominant social and ideological system in Germany more than eighty years ago. And only or especially Nazism... While Cubans, people like you and me, live in misery, lacking the most basic necessities, even when there was Soviet aid, because they didn't even have the most basic democratic right to have a voice and to be able to use it, for example, to criticize the government/party. And they continue like this, only now it's even worse. Of course, the same can be said about the North Koreans...
What also persists are the excuses of those who coldly remain silent about the suffering of these peoples, as if denying its legitimacy (and that seems to be what they do). Because, according to this majority, it is not the "socialist/democratic" dictators (??), and their henchmen, who are most to blame for the deplorable states in which Cuba and North Korea find themselves. The blame, for those who adopt victimhood as a habit, always lies with the other: the American embargo, Western imperialism, structural racism... in short, any abstract expression that denotes a pretense of intellectual depth. Even with all the evidence pointing to the fact that every so-called socialist regime is basically a reinterpretation of what happened in the first revolutionary experience, in the Russian Empire, because.this perfectly illustrates what the most important political prophet, George Orwell, wrote in the form of a children's fable in his brilliant book: Animal Farm. Even though Nazism always deserves a definitively negative mention*, the absolute contempt of many leftists for the suffering of these exemplified peoples, while simultaneously always trying to associate the idea of evil only with the other side of the political-ideological trenches, calls into question their capacity for moral discernment, due to an extreme selectivity of indignation, very incoherent or contradictory...
*although it is entirely possible, and I think even necessary, to explore and emphasize its complexity, for example, to show that not "everything" that was/is defended was/is unequivocally wrong, as many leftists/Orwellians like to do (for example, claiming that people, especially those of Caucasian white race, cannot have a more positive feeling about their race, because that would be the same as racism, "white supremacy" or even Nazism, as if only European peoples had a history of conflict, wars and oppression and, therefore, were no longer allowed to have and demonstrate it). that feeling...