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from my own experience observing people migrating from the soviet union, they're considered more authoritarian for the efforts to keep the workers in the worker's paradise, the moment you have to put up walls and border checkpoints to keep people in, it's over. you're an authoritarian state, no longer actually socialist imho.
How is this a controversial take? If you need a wall to keep people in or attempting to emigrate makes you a "defector", or you've built up a huge surveillance network where your neighbours or even partners can report you for bullshit "crimes" , you're an authoritarian state.
tankies, I guess.