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Reminds me of the "real capitalism has never been tried" that right-wing libertarians retreat to when you point out the massive flaws which occur under capitalism – namely that those ills are the product of bastardizing capitalism with government regulation ("crony capitalism"). Where of course they get to dictate exactly what "real capitalism" is against the consensus of historians and economists– usually pure laissez-faire capitalism.
That is a pretty wild generalisation to make. From me claiming one person that pretended to be a communist wasn't to somehow me being a... Soviet fanboy or something? Stalin and Mao both committed atrocities, pretending to be something they aren't. China keeps doing it to this day, as does DPRK. Lenin wasn't a saint folks over at .ml pretend he was either. People get corrupted by power, it happens depressingly often under any political ideology.