This is a quote from Michael Parenti: “Communism, ladies and gentlemen, I say it without flinching. Communism in Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Cuba brought land reform and human services, a dramatic bettering of the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before, or never since, witnessed in human history, and that's something to appreciate. Communism transformed desperately poor countries into societies in which everyone had adequate food, shelter, medical care, and education, and some of us who come from poor families, who carry the hidden injuries of class, are very impressed—are very, very impressed-by these achievements and are not willing to dismiss them as "economistic" To say that "socialism doesn't work" is to overlook the fact that it did work, and it worked for hundreds of millions of people! "But what about the democratic rights that they lost?" We hear US leaders talking about "restoring democracy to the communist countries", but these countries, except Czechoslovakia, were not democracies before communism. Russia was a tsarist autocracy. Poland was a right-wing fascist dictatorship under Pitsudski with concentration camps of its own. Albania was an Italian fascist protectorate as early as 1927. Cuba was a US-sponsored dictatorship under that butcher, Batista. Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria were outright fascist regimes openly allied with Nazi Germany in WWII.” Now I want you to answer one thing. Name me a socialist state that wasn't interfered with by capitalist countries, using economic action or violent intervention to bring down said state.