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One of the reasons why you shouldn’t commit war crimes is because it usually encourages the other side to say “fuck it. We ball too”. The Russian civil war was rather chaotic because decades were happening before the war even started and decades kept happening after the civil war.
Countries like china and Vietnam and Cuba were embroiled in civil wars too, but I think they were able to study from the USSR’s history as well as have more time to deepen communist ideology to keep them mostly disciplined and restraint compared to the red terror. In fact, Cuban revolutionaries tried to avoid a Cuban red terror after the war, but peasants and other workers were demanding Batista blood and carrying out executions so much that the government had to reign the fervor in by officially executing Batista soldiers.