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> Said no one ever.
True. But not for the reasons you would think.
For starters the only time when millions died en masse was the great famine. But then for the people it could be told that it's not the fault of the leadership, during history many famines occurred they could just blame it on a new one and it wasn't even up for discussion to the '90s people didn't even know about it.
Then the "our people" didn't exist. They didn't really had the idea of national community in them and the communist propaganda literally brainwashed them into believing they are the glorious proletariat who should clean itself from the class enemy who wants to oppress and exploit them. Most of the "Soviet people" were very simple uneducated people and they started to learn the tenets of Marxism and Leninism since the cradle. By WWII many of the young adults honestly believed in communism, it's fight and it's goals. Then WWII could be used to verify the previous claims that imperialists want to take away the freedom of the workers.
And many, many people lived their life talking without any cynicism when it came to the communist system up until the CCCP collapsed.
They also lived informational isolation. They didn't travel, they didn't have internet, they only knew about what's happening by hearsay (if anyone talked about anything but I doubt it, maximum in the very close family). They got information from the state newspaper and state radio. And from their superiors in the workplace. From the commissars and the cadres, from those who were more politically "qualified" to express "opinions".
And do you think the villains of history believe they are villains? You think they think about themselves as "haha I'm The Bad Guy, let's torture some innocents"?
You think today in Russia so many people wants the SU back because they knew and enjoyed how these Evil Dictators killed "their people"?