Nobody is saying otherwise but I am living in a country with the most corrupt far right Government in its history, that is today suggesting the home Secretary (Patel) gets to ban any kind of protest or dissent or expression of free speech, SHE decides is not acceptable.

No legal or parliamentary scrutiny. HER decision.

And you are living in a country with a very centrist Government that in most places in the world, especially here, would never be condidered even left wing let alone communist. Democrats are classic neo-Conservative

So please don't pretend I am the one trying to minimise or sanitise the horrors of Lenin etc.

If you want to treat it so flippantly to pretend that not printing Dr Seuss books or whatever daft nonsense you think is the thin end of the wedge is the same thing, then you might want to re-examine your position.