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You eat too much western propaganda. I suggest reading

http://www.spectrezine.org/global/chomsky.html

Of course, I forgot that you are the owner of the truth and the knower of all objective information - for example Chomsky speaking about communism. You have to be kidding.

Anyway, please, give your version, how many people died under Stalin's regime (please include Holomordor, dying of hunger is a violent death IMO)? How many people died as a result of the invasion of France, Poland and the USSR by Nazi Germany? Hint: You will have to make some assumptions, none of that data is really uncontested.

Feel free to compare these, in reasonable terms with US wars or even US induced wars.

Bottom line, authoritarian regimes are much more prone to enter into wars. Most people by default do not want war, if given a voice, they would tend to request peaceful solutions. Tyrants need wars, countries ruled with strong military influence tend to like large armies and these tend to like waging war.

Collosally failed experiment of capitalism killed around 650 million people so far
Communism killed around 100 million

(I don't support either number, but you get those numbers when you apply same methodology of counting bodies
used by authors of "Black book of Communism" to both capitalism and communism)

Your "Bottom line, authoritarian regimes are much more prone to enter into wars." suggest USA is the most authoritarian regime ever

For me is not Capitalism of Communism, is participative regimes vs others. This article compares a lot with India, certainly not with US. So basically you are choosing Chomsky and his "methodology", which is already quite biased, and, you are using a comparison between India and China to come to a conclusion about the US.

Your own source mentions figures in the range of 100 millions in China. Not only that, there is no accountability for it:

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China's totalitarian regime suffered from "misinformation" that undercut a serious response, and there was "little political pressure" from opposition groups and an informed public

And, as I mentioned, another totalitarian regime gets ignored by you, even in your own source:

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Although "the body count tips the scales against Communism," Ryan concludes that Nazism nevertheless sinks to the lower depths of immorality.

Branko, you are suffering from confirmation bias. You only accept information that appears to prove your existing beliefs and disregard anything that may disprove it.

Ways you can avoid that:

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Seek contrary opinions, even if those opinions may seem uncomfortable to you at first.
Try to understand the rationale behind the contrarian opinions.
Do not rely on just one source of information to form opinions [...]. Look at multiple sources of information.
Knowledge is your biggest friend in overcoming [...] biases..

https://www.miraeassetmf.co.in/knowledge-center/confirmation-bias

Funny, but I feel the same about you...with added bonus of oversimplifying complicated matters when it suits you