I don&#x27;t quite follow, why would a communist society have more incentive to lie about statistics? This seems like quite a big leap. As somebody else noted, during the beginning of great leap forward, there were huge misrepresentations about crop yields and similar things -- but this was _not_ due to a one-party system per se, it was because the farmers had promised bigger yields due to the now &quot;modern&quot; communist methods of planting crops and similar things. Everybody bought into the idea, and when it failed to come through, nobody wanted to take blame.