I’m not claiming it wasn’t oppression. I’m pointing out that that oppression was made possible by the counterrevolutionary overthrow of the communist leadership and the restoration of the use of capitalist-inspired methods.
1. You can argue all you like that the USSR was not really a communist government. We have a few countries that called themselves communists. USSR, China, North Korea, Cuba. The USSR invaded a number of countries after WWII was over. It was after the governments they had installed were either being replaced or were in danger of being overturned by their own people. Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia(1968), Afghanistan(1979), several former republics after the USSR had dissolved and now Ukraine....all were based on imperial control of other nations. I posted a great evaluation of the problems faced by Russia and why Putin is trying to expand his country into others.
2. It is not capitalism that drove the USSR to invade those countries. It was not capitalism that drove North Korea to invade South Korea.
3. Communism has failed repeatedly. No amount of rhetoric will change that.