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There was at least some sort of belief, at least in the later years of the Soviet Union, that eventually they'd reach the point of flattening wages across the board. I do not, however, know what the specific form of that they imagined was or how earnest this belief was - I only know of it from it being mentioned as one of the hair-brained ideas Gorbachev tried after he ran out of Andropov's ongoing reforms to finish and had to start thinking for himself, and that like his push to curb alcohol consumption it had rather bad results and undermined public trust in the CPSU.
I don't believe even that ill-conceived version was meant to go as far as "everyone gets paid the same" though, just a further closing of income inequality which was already extremely low compared to any capitalist country.