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Chile and Nicaragua are both excellent examples of a burgeoning socialist economy that was only stopped through right-wing violence.
As for human rights violations, it all depends on what context you give them. I'm too used to hearing the words "well that's different" when referring to capitalism, so I'll mention them in parallels.
If you consider communism as responsible for the massive famines in China, then you also have to blame capitalism in India for an average of four million deaths more per year than in China since the fifties to the present.
If you consider Castro's trials against counterrevolutionaries as brutal, then you should wonder why you don't find a problem with the Nuremberg Trials when both were almost identical in praxis.
If you complain about the FMLN's attack on 800 Miskito prisoners, why not raise an eyebrow to Somoza's systematic genocide to these same people?
Hell, why would one even complain about Hitler's concentration camps when we see no problem with the United states having put four and a half million people in strategic hamlets with no sanitation and rations much lower than the absolute minimum to stay alive? They didn't even force them to work; the Vietnamese only became lumbering masses, wasting away until the war ended. Of course, this last one has nothing to do with communist atrocities; it was a fascist atrocity, but America's strategic hamlets are another example of human rights violations by the nations that lead the free market.
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