I've never understood why people say this lol. I know, the Soviet Union worked great. Oh... East Germany, for sure. No... China? Uh-uh. North Korea? We don't know... Cuba? I'll go look for one of the folks on floating goats. That (the fact nearly... no every communist state has/had to put it very lightly, political repression) wasn't even my point, I've just never understood why people always say it - more specifically, how many actually mean it and can back it up, and aren't just saying it because they heard someone else say it.