trump announces his bid for reelection!

[Pat Mustard]

While there are certainly elements of socialism in communism....... they have some fundamental differences.

And when you get down to it, by the time Stalin gained full power, there was very little remaining of Communism* or Socialism in the USSR. Totalitarian states lean very far to the right, and for one very simple reason, totalitarian states are all about retaining power in the hands of a small elite and hard or far right political systems have that same sole goal.

*In fact I'd contend that Communism died in the USSR when the Bolsheviks did in the Soviets during the civil war.