I think it would be wise to keep religion out of the discussion when it comes to the Holocaust. It is just asking for trouble with such a sensitive subject as this one.
Also the Russian purges are quite different. For one thing, a lot of it was kept secret particularly outside of the USSR. Second it was not so much an organized institution of genocide, and the kinds of people targeted were different; though it did contain some eugenics, it was mostly about getting rid of potential political enemies.
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