re: #424 Walter L. Newton

They were not practicing socialism before they became what they are currently (or in the case of USSR, the past). Cuba and North Korea are communist, the USSR went from Czarist autocracy to communism, from communism to totalitarianism. They had some socialist in government for about 6 months before that.

Socialism does not lead to totalitarianism.

Socialism is an economic system
Totalitarianism is a political sysem

Just like Ethel and Lucy; Dean & Jerry. they go hand in hand with each other…