The fact that you can't get accurate income data from communist regimes that cover the entire society is also a sign of applied communism being a big lie/illusi

The fact that you can't get accurate income data from communist regimes that cover the entire society is also a sign of applied communism being a big lie/illusion, it needs to lie to its people and keep them in the dark to preserve it. I grew up in communism and indeed there were people who were "more equal" than others, mostly those well connected with high positioned party members (if themselves weren't such party members). That allowed them much better living conditions than the regular "worker", they ate meat every day (yes, it may sound strange to the average reader of HN but meat wasn't something that we in the 80s in Eastern Europe had access to very often), had bread (for the rest of us it was rationed), soft toilet paper, jeans (I would have killed for a pair of jeans!), pepsi (no coca-cola tho) and a million little other things that people living in Western Europe in the 80s took for granted. But hey, most of us were "equal" in our poverty, so communism can't be that bad.