Communism after WW2 was not an ideological monolith and had two main, competing types: Soviet and Chinese. Apparently the latter proved to be more flexible in

Communism after WW2 was not an ideological monolith and had two main, competing types: Soviet and Chinese. Apparently the latter proved to be more flexible in the long run. My father happened to attend a meeting once that turned out to be a propaganda event for Chinese communism - they gave him Mao's red book, which was promptly confiscated by security services who were standing in the exit. No other consequences, just an unsaid, stern warning that the only accepted form of communism in this soviet satellite state is the one from Moscow.