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Yeah these are definitely some of the more well known examples, these early communist countries tended to have a lot of state capacity so if there were such things like local planning controls and they got in the way of state priorities they were simply rewritten or appealed.

The USA, and Australia actually use to have far greater state capacity.

Besides political will, the structure of institutions and distribution of authority in both Australia and USA act against the federal governments of either country enacting this.