Yes.
The tankie objection to Hitler is entirely about June 22, 1941.
If that hadn't happened, they'd happily have cheered on the Holocaust.
Reminder that Stalin did in fact want to continue where Hitler left off:
Doctor's Plot
And was quite keen on ethnic cleansing:
Poles being the largest case, but all eastern European minorities in the USSR were hit.
And of course the whole thing about allying with the Nazis and providing them with the oil needed so the tank divisions wouldn't run out of gas halfway into France.
To the tankie, the way history should've gone is this:
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To the tankie, the Nazis' crime wasn't the holocaust, the elimination of individual freedoms, eugenics or any of those things.
To the tankie, the
only bad thing the Nazis ever did was stabbing the USSR in the back.