They won&#x27;t write those things in the books on communism, but it&#x27;s telling that when Stalin and Mao went &quot;off the book&quot;, 100 million working class people had to die. And of course, anywhere that descends into anarchy results in a dramatic rise in deaths.<p>And the only communist states that survived without forgetting to feed their own people were the ones bankrolled by the USSR, for example eastern Europe and Cuba. The two biggest ones that did survive, the USSR and China, did in fact forget to feed their own people for a long time.