It is possible I misinterpreted your point but one could argue the collectivist policies were inefficient and also caused major grief such as famine and what no

It is possible I misinterpreted your point but one could argue the collectivist policies were inefficient and also caused major grief such as famine and what not. Also some argue USSR was not communist and that there has never been a communist society and that every country that called itself that was just a brutal dictatorship playing the people with grandiose promises and wild fantasies of the workers running the show and sharing the spoils.