I know exactly where your impulses lie but it's good to see you admit something like that tbh.
Now take the same logic and apply it to modern China. They're more economically successful but even less defensible from your POV. They've moved further away from communism and are only nominally Communists now. They engage in international trade and they have a strict authoritarian government that is self justifying and increasingly nationalistic around the Han Chinese ethnicity. Sounds like fascism to me.
People accuse Stalin of being a fascist... I don't think he was. I think he was a ruthless pragmatist. But the current regimes in China and NK could probably be properly identified as fascist regimes. Regardless of what they call themselves.
Remember, the Nazis called themselves the national socialist workers party. The north Koreans call themselves the democratic people's republic of Korea. State titles mean nothing. It's propoganda.
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