Well there aren't any actual communist governments, so there haven't been any totalitarian ones. :P I agree, somewhat, about using vernacular, but that misses

Well there aren't any actual communist governments, so there haven't been any totalitarian ones. :P I agree, somewhat, about using vernacular, but that misses the point. The USSR was no-more a communism because they said so than they'd have been a capitalism by saying so... You are as you do, not as you wish to be seen doing.