Yes, perhaps the most difficult part is fitting into the gap between “denying” violence done by AES states, which discredits you, and “confirming” their “atrocities”, which discredits the AES state in question, and you by extension. The soviet famine is a great example. You obviously can’t say it never happened (because it did!) but the moment you acknowledge it, people’s brains switch off. Never mind that historians at large don’t accept that a man made famine is even possible.