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Only kind of, and only some people. There was always a solid core of apologia for them. The holocaust and the American troops rescuing people and bringing back such stories made everyone at every level of society have knowledge of Nazi evil. There was none of that for communism.

I will say there's some amount of arrogance to the Academic communists. A belief that it was just not done right, but that they can do it. You just need to do it 'right'.