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Which is why you still have no clue what anything you advocate for actually means.
You're just parroting words you heard from some right-wing dipshit somewhere.
They won't ever tell you what any of the words actually mean, just their own twisted interpretations thereof. They say communism is bad, and then point to an authoritarian dictatorship led by a man who was so insecure in his power that he forced all of his top generals to binge-drink with him every single night for the last 15 years of his life. And after everyone was drunk and smeared with tomato (a bit of drunken humor that Stalin loved) then they would watch American movies that he had smuggled into the country.
It's just sad that if people like you finally opened a book or used a web browser to look at anything other than more stupid right-wing bullshit, you'd be horrified at what you've been supporting.
I've brought up the Nazis a lot in these comments, because they too rose to power in the same sort of environment that spawned the Bolsheviks.
And it's the environment that created people like Nestor Makhno. The dude was based as fuck. He invented the Tachanka, a machine gun in the back of a cart, these days it's referred to as a technical and is usually a machine gun mounted to the back of a Nissan pickup.
See, these are the sorts of little tidbits of fun history that you should be learning. Instead, you seem to just be spoon-fed more right-wing talking points.