Is it not the case that the totalitarian societies we place under the flag of “Communist” had not achieved Actual Communism? - that the totalitarianism and the

Is it not the case that the totalitarian societies we place under the flag of “Communist” had not achieved Actual Communism? - that the totalitarianism and the mechanisms which gave birth to the domination of those parties and ideologies were intended as stepping stones to the “Ideal” (which may or many not have come to pass given time and isolation).