Neither did the Soviet Union to be honest. Like so many things, what it's called and what it is are different entities. The USSR was a communist-inspired totali

Neither did the Soviet Union to be honest. Like so many things, what it's called and what it is are different entities. The USSR was a communist-inspired totalitarian command economy. It was not as unprecedented an invention as many would imagine. It was similar to many systems of monarchic and aristocratic rule, the only difference was that the requirements for membership in the aristocracy were ideologically tinged rather than predominantly based on notions of hereditary nobility. It also would have seemed fairly familiar to anyone who had lived under a Bronze age palatial city-state command economy. Modern China has also only ever had an ideologically tinged totalitarian command economy, though they loosened up in the '90s or so and became more of some variant of crony capitalism (just like us!).