The attempt to have Stalinist crimes in Eastern Europe made the same as Nazi crimes especially the Jewish genocide is an attempt to downplay the genocide and to forge an identity.
I entirely agree. The original proposition that equates the crimes of the Stalinist years - done when things were going badly, with the holocaust (both genocide against Jews and Roma as well as democide against homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and Masons) carried out with the intention of killing specific groups and done when things were going exactly to plan is rather disingenuous and opens the door to compensation claims against the former Soviet Union. Which some former Eastern-bloc politicians would rather like.