It absolutely was.

Looking at the entire period of Stalin’s rule, one can list: Poles (1939–1941 and 1944–1945), Kola Norwegians (1940–1942), Romanians (1941 and 1944–1953), Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians (1941 and 1945–1949), Volga Germans (1941–1945), Ingrian Finns (1929–1931 and 1935–1939), Finnish people in Karelia (1940–1941, 1944), Crimean Tatars, Crimean Greeks (1944) and Caucasus Greeks (1949–50), Kalmyks, Balkars, Italians of Crimea, Karachays, Meskhetian Turks, Karapapaks, Far East Koreans (1937), Chechens and Ingushs (1944). Shortly before, during and immediately after World War II, Stalin conducted a series of deportations on a huge scale which profoundly affected the ethnic map of the Soviet Union.[27] It is estimated that between 1941 and 1949 nearly 3.3 million were deported to Siberia and the Central Asian republics.[28] By some estimates, up to 43% of the resettled population died of diseases and malnutrition.[29]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Soviet_Union

But of course for people who drink the Soviet Kool-Aid then I’m sure all of these millions were Nazis, counter-revolutionaries, bandits, or whatever the convenient excuse of the day was. Of course, it’s the exact same rhetoric Israel uses in its campaign, except today the convenient scapegoat is “terrorists” or “antisemites”.

And it’s true that at least some of those people were Nazis. And it’s true that at least some Palestinians are anti-Semitic terrorists. But those facts cannot ever justify crimes against humanity.

So no, it was not good, is not good, and it’s you who is engaging in nazi apologia by endorsing the same reasoning they used in their slaughter.