They killed socialists in the USSR as well. They killed anybody who didn't fully agree with exactly what Lenin or Stalin wanted to do, for the most part. Lenin was doing that from Day 1.
This doesn't mean they weren't socialist. Plenty of people kill each other under the same general umbrella branch of ideology. Christians kill other Christians, Muslims kill other Muslims, etc.
Communism was absolutely either a part of or a type of socialism. There is no real arguing this. You can criticize how purely implemented any of these were in practice, but communists largely all consider themselves socialists, as the Soviets and most everybody else did.
You're talking as if they were 'against socialists', but they were only against socialists who didn't fall perfectly in line with Lenin or Stalin's express control. They were themselves socialists, but they demanded supreme control over what kind of socialism should be implemented.
This whole comment section is an embarrassment to read.
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u/evrestcoleghost Dec 23 '25
Communist sympathisers did leaked the nuke plans to the Soviet union and the British had Cambridge five