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Depends on your lens. Both were violent authoritarians really into hierarchical power. The Nazis stood by that, owned it (Führerprinzip and everything), while the Soviets coated the whole thing with "worker's rights" paint, keeping the soviets around as mouthpieces of the Nomenklatura. Arguably, owning your shit is better than being shifty about it, so the Nazis were better.
...not to say that Nazis can't be shifty they constantly are now that you get punched in the face for calling yourself one but the 3rd Reich didn't hide its ambitions.
Then you can use even more different lens. Number of victims. How they went about it. Whether you were required to send birthday greetings to the leader when you're in a KZ/Gulag. The list goes on and on and on, if you want to be partisan you could portray things selectively either way, and that's where you throw up your hands and say "They're comparable only in so far as they are both incomparably evil". The Red Khmer killed way fewer people than Nazis or Soviets, yet they're very much in that "comparable because incomparable" category due to the sheer insanity and ultimately randomness of the policy.
If you're sitting at a table with the Soviets saying "Well, I can say they're better than the Nazis", you're no one I would sit at a table with.
At some point the evil is so bad that lesser evilism doesn't work, you have to fight on both fronts, sooner or later, anyway. Ask Makhno. Best you can do is play them against each other.
Not to mention that the Soviets and Nazis were fucking allies.
The right outcome of that war would have been both Germany and the Soviets getting rolled by everyone else for invading Poland. But authoritarians were appeased, and thus we got the Soviet-Western alliance.
So, no, I wouldn't have because the need would never have arisen.
The Soviets invaded Poland, remember. Maybe you're blanking out on that one, somehow under the impression that the Soviets "freed" Poland from the Nazis or something.
At that point in the war there were no multiple fronts, there was no lend-lease, there were the Nazis and the Soviets getting away with carving up a sovereign country.
So don't fucking "Polish lives" me here. If you care about Polish lives you hate both Nazis and Soviets.
With time, they would've killed it, with deportations, settlements, language policy, etc. Poles are more numerous than e.g. Lithuanians but Russia has wanted to Russify the whole area for centuries now. And the Soviets were nothing but the continuation of the genocidal, colonial, Russian empire with a different coat of paint.
They probably would've treated Poland like Ukraine and worse right from the start if the Nazis hadn't tried a very similar thing directly beforehand: Poland had a very active and well-organised resistance, had the Soviets started out with their usual genocidal programme the Polish resistance would've fought right back. So they bid their time, first carefully cultivating an image as liberators.
Did you blank out on the Holodomor or are you denying it?
We're talking about Soviets vs. Nazis here, not "Who did worse, specifically, in Poland".
Famine in Poland? You're referring to the Warsaw Ghetto famine (that was the Nazis) or the shortages in the early 1980s? The GDR sent a lot of stuff over back then.
...frankly speaking looking through lists famines in Poland are historically about as astonishingly rare as plague outbreaks.
My point still stands, though: The Soviets were absolutely willing to do worse, it just wasn't opportune at the moment. And this isn't about "What either side did in Poland, specifically", but whether there's a point at which evil is so bad that it's pointless to make distinctions. And the Soviets crossed that line.
You can also find people the Nazis treated way better than Poles, Slavic people: The Sorbs (mostly innocently). Or Croats (because Ustaše). That doesn't suddenly make the Nazis less evil.
So the 1946/47 Winter? Germany also hungered back then, it was an extreme cold and draught double-whammy, but by the life of me I can't find anything about Poland, and that's with searching for sources in Polish.
Yes: Being opportunistic is more effective in the long run. Cold-bloodedness doesn't tend to make things better, on the contrary, as it necessitates habit it's harder to overcome.
...and just for the record: If you'd been arguing that the Soviets were worse I'd have challenged you by arguing that the Nazis were worse. That's my very point. They're both worse.
My very point is that comparisons become impossible at some point. You might be able to say "The Nazis are worse here" or "The Soviets are worse here" but once you try to go "They're better" you look around and see that nope, that's just coincidence, nope, that's still fucking unconscionable, nope, there's no tiny sliver of goodness behind that that would make "better" a word anyone with an ounce of ethics would use without their stomach churning.
Thus, neither are better than the other, and both are worse. Because the shit they did is so far off the scale that comparisons break down. It's like comparing infinities.