You ignored the fact that overall the population of the Soviet Union under Stalin was less-than half what the US Population is now.
You ignored the fact that the charges and conditions of Russian gulags are ostensibly more trumped up and far worse conditions, overall.
You ignored that rather than imprison political prisoners, he just blatantly murdered them… In the millions. You want to talk about legitimate genocide and you side-step this? If it wasn’t so absurd and sad it would be laughable!
Incarceration rates don’t prove worse corruption; while the drug laws need changed, that in itself is not proof of a corruption on the scale of Stalin lol.
War on terror, Condor, Dirty Wars, etc. - None come remotely close to Russia, both foreign and domestic. Sorry. Soviet-Afghan War, Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Ukraine, not to mention Red Army atrocities, or Stalin executions and domestic oppression with millions dead. Or the blatant assassination and silencing of dissidents within Russia from Nemtsov to Nevalny and tightening of laws where one cannot even speak publicly about the war without 15 years imprisonment lol. People dragged away for protesting with a blank sign LOL. I protested the Iraq War very early on and I was never at risk for 15 years imprisonment simply for being opposed to it LOL. Yet here you are purporting false-equivalence fallacies.
You lose on the numbers and severity. This is just a fact.