[concerndc1tizen]

It's important to remember that the communist states were in a cold war with the US, and were being sabotaged from within, so they had to aggressively monitor for internal threats.

We don't know what the world would look like if the US hadn't destroyed communism, and hadn't actively supported tyrannical leaders.

But in an ironic twist, the US will now be destroyed by the same dark forces they created.

[keybored]

We do know what happened to socialist projects that weren’t authoritarian. They got crushed by the US and other capitalist states.[1]

That all socialist projects that were successful for some time were authoritarian is, well, those were the ones who could survive in that world (in this current world). I think there’s a word for that. :)

[1] Capitalist nations violently interfering in other nations is not called authoritarian.