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As I recall Lenin didn't think actual communism was obtainable without a long period of enforced socialism .. so the regime under Lenin was never actual communism (at least according to Lenin) and not especially socialist other than in name by Lenin.

In any case it segued into Stalinism .. and all of these were oppressive authoritarian top down rule.

People that think of post revolution Russia as a good example of communism are the kind of people that think of the USofA as a good example of capitalism.