Your regular reminder that the "100 million victims" number is made up by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOCMF), an anti-communist propaganda shop founded by an act of Congress that's so extreme in their views that they consider all Nazis killed by Soviets as "victims of communism", as well as all deaths resulting from Covid-19 (and all babies that would have been born had China not introduced the 1-child policy. 

Check for instance one of their recent X postings (in which they exhort people to "remember the victims" from when the Soviet army liberated Poland from the Nazis (including Auschwitz!) during the Vistula–Oder Offensive 🤦

It's also incidentally the same organization that's been chosen to prepare the educational material to indoctrinate U.S. school kids with anti-communism and anti-China propaganda as per a new law that just passed, the "Crucial Communism Teaching Act" (text here:The law mandates that "high school students in the United States learn that communism has led to the deaths of over 100,000,000 victims worldwide" and also that U.S. school kids be "taught" all the usual anti-China propaganda talking points such as "the treatment of Uyghurs" (the so-called "Uyghur genocide" is, incidentally, also a narrative that originates from the VOCMF), the "actions taken by the PRC to deter pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong" or "the increasingly aggressive posture by the PRC toward Taiwan, a democratic friend of the United States".

This anticommunist propaganda push by Musk and the U.S. government, based on completely debunked claims (like this 100m number, or AFD's Alice Weidel claiming 2 days ago that Nazis were "communists" in her interview with Musk), is just bizarre in that it's so antiquated: there's zero ideological competition with Communism today. China isn't seeking to export its model and there are virtually no communist Western politician, and an infinitesimally small number of adherents. So why do it? Why invent a Boogeyman that's no threat at all?

The bigger irony here is that "communist China" has no equivalent law or curriculum: Chinese school kids aren't taught as part of their curriculum to hate capitalism or the U.S. In fact, China has plenty of American international schools in almost all major cities in the country, which goes to illustrate that, contrary to common perceptions, China's educational approach toward the U.S. and its system shows much greater receptivity and balance than is currently being demonstrated in the reverse direction. And that's a massive understatement...

All in all, to take a step back, which approach is likely to educate more capable and discerning citizens? The one fostering genuine understanding through exposure to diverse perspectives, or the one imposing a rigid ideological opposition based on easily debunkable lies? You draw your own conclusion...