Afaik this happened with every single instance of a communist country. Communism seems like a pretty good idea on the surface, but then why does it always become autocratic?

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    Lea Ypi’s book Free is a phenomenal book describing the albanian communist period. Can’t recommend it enough.

    I grew up in DDR. It fails because it doesn’t reflect reality. People are different, can do different things, and want different things. An ideology that simplifies people into classes, stands between people and their dreams. And will always need an ever increasing police force to force reality to look like the ideology.