Steve...

Stalin killed millions in Ukraine, in the Gulags, etc... He was just as bad as Hitler.

North Korea today suffers from famine - this is over their own creation, no one forces them to spend 35% of their GDP on the military, it is a disaster of their own creation.

Deng is the man responsible for China's success - Mao and his wife's gang of four did an immense amount of damage to the country, and are responsible for the starving to death of millions of chinese.

Your attempt to cast these totalitarian states in a positive light is more than a little disconcerting.

In the end, neither the U.S, nor any of your romanticized communist countries are free from the yoke of overbearing government.