Yeah I cannot believe some are disputing the fact that Lenin was a cold blooded murderer who wrote the playbook for all the left wing tyrannies making him directly and indirectly responsible for over 100 million deaths and his biggest victims were his own countrymen i.e Russians
As someone who has read fairly widely on the Russian Civil War and Lenin, allow me to interject a little.
I’m not quite sure it’s fair at all to point to every death that resulted from Leninist Vanguard tactics and pin that on Lenin directly - it’s pretty much like saying every death of the French Revolution and Wars of Napoleon (some few millions) are directly laid at the door of the founding fathers of the United States since they inspired the ideals of the French Revolution and subsequent events - a tad ridiculous, no? In the interest of scholarly rigor it’s probably also worth noting that the figure of 100 million seems to be cited largely from the Black Book of Communism, a book that even its creators later admitted was quite exaggerated. As you can see here, it’s still a controversial estimate, but more recent academics (for instance Professor Stephen Kotkin - someone who has wrote extensively on the Soviet Union and is writing a three part epic on Joseph Stalin) have revised the total. Kotkin himself puts it at around 65 million - still something quite significant but a far cry from 100 million+ of Cold War estimates.
Earlier, you mentioned that Andrew Jackson and co. did not kill as much as Lenin but if we want to look at the historical context, I think there’s a good case to be made that the brutal chaos of post WWI Russia was going to result in quite a number of deaths for pretty much any party that wished to win the civil war. Early in the Soviet regimes power there was massive issues with feeding the cities because peasants simply stopped handing in the grain. In addition to this, White armies roamed the countrysides and advanced from the South and East, Entente troops landed in Vladivostok and Murmansk and were pretty anti-Bolshevik, etc. The situation was quite ugly and I imagine if a George Washington found himself in a 20th century anarchy like Russia in 1919, he wouldn’t have acted too different. This isn’t to excuse the excesses of the Cheka or the massacres on both sides of the Civil War, but for perspective it’s at least worth noting that the Soviet State was under siege from the day of its inception and born into chaos where external allies like those in Berlin did not materialize - to keep the system afloat, difficult measures were obviously needed and it’s not fair to write this all down as simply a bloodthirsty maniac counting souls.
This video is pretty simple and has very bad Russian accents, but I think TedX made a decent historical defense of the actions of Vladimir Ilych that you should at least give a look, if not checking out some of the Civil War era biographies of the man. This is a quite controversial historical topic and I don’t think it can simply boil down to “Lenin was evil and caused every death of communism ever.” There’s clearly more nuance to the situation that one should explore before coming to an absolute judgement on a complex figure like Lenin.