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Well not far off though
Do you have any credible sources to back up your observation?
The Black Book of Communism says that Communism killed 100 Zillion poeple. I assume some of them qualified as the above.
Like with all authoritarian systems, the Soviet Union for example, usually ends up with an enriched elite, a "stable" middle class and a poor underclass.
Authoritarian regimes have the same tools available so it's not surprising that their solutions and behavior are alike.
The Soviet Union had a wealth gap far smaller than the Tsarist system, or modern Russia. The working classes controlled the state, and used it to uplift those that were at the bottom, using the authority of the state to forcibly appropriate property from landlords and capitalists.