TBH the USSR got into space not because of its government but because it had captured enough expertise and manufacturing ability from the remains of Nazi Germa

TBH the USSR got into space not because of its government but because it had captured enough expertise and manufacturing ability from the remains of Nazi Germany. If not for the end of WW2 and all they confiscated its very likely they would never have catapulted so far ahead of where they were so fast. the issue with all ideal forms of each government type is that people in charge elevate themselves above the tenets of said government.