Afaik this happened with every single instance of a communist country. Communism seems like a pretty good idea on the surface, but then why does it always become autocratic?

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    Attempts to implement communism at the scale of a nation state have always involved significant concentration of power. It may be impossible to do otherwise.

    Power corrupts, and concentrations of power attract the corrupt.