i'm hungarian. you don't have to explain to me how the soviets operated, it deeply permeates our culture.

central economic planning and master races are not what this is about. we're talking about oppression, and lots of politically left ideologies did that a lot. the book 1984 was so scary not because it's an exploration of an oppressive society, but because the particular flavor of that oppression matches the soviet ideology so well that up until the collapse of the USSR it was a very real possibility that its world would come true.

add to that that most modern-day tankies care a lot less about central planning, all they really want to do is dunk on the west, and end up propping up russia and china in the process, with all their hateful baggage.