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Your combative stance highlights that you are unable to stray from your ideological perspective to admit any fault on the part of the USSR.
The reason that people "only care" about the Molotov Ribbentrop pact is because the USSR colluded with Germany to partition Poland. It was not just a defensive pact.
You have made (or perhaps, copy pasted) a selective list showing Western collusion/cooperation with Nazi Germany while minimizing USSR collusion with the same. This is whataboutism.
I am a much better critic of the USSR than you, because I don't slavishly adhere to the narrative of the US. You're dealing entirely in ideology and I'm actually engaging with the premises of the historical narrative, something you're unable to do. You are listing off random USSR Bad factoids instead of acknowledging there are criticisms of them. You simply decided not to look at them because it's too hard for you. It's just your aim to control the conversation and downplay or ignore the information you're presented with.