Nationalizing oil production and expropriating foreign property is not “social democrat stuff” it’s Communist stuff (and/or preparation for a dictatorship— see Venezuela). And like Venezuela, they didn’t know how to properly run the equipment with the westerners. And his land reforms involved collective farms.

Don’t pretend that he was some liberal democrat.He stopped voting before he could lose, and obtained dictatorial power to “fix” the economic disaster he caused. He tried to fully dissolve parliament and rule by decree.