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The problem is that places like the USSR were just authoritarian using communist wordsand concepts to keep people in line. It was just state-run capitalism. Communism is fundamentally about not having a ruling class.
Just like the "democratic" people's republic of Korea isn't a democracy, the USSR wasn't socialist.