stateist communism always ends up like the USSR or China

Advancing standards of living by leaps and bounds? Taking literal dirt farming feudal serfdoms to literally the world's first space power in the span of literally 4 decades? Ending cyclical patterns of famine that have occurred for thousands of years, but never again under communism?

Oh man so awful

You're the kinda guy who would hear about China building "ghost cities" and just believe the lies that they're building useless shit to juice their GDP, aren't you