Liberals when talking about human rights: :) Liberals when talking about the enforcement of human rights: :(
The USSR and China weren’t/aren’t perfect but if you claim to be a leftist and spend more time criticising them than the West, you’re completely suspect IMO.
We already live in a nightmare capitalist autocracy and people still fearmonger about the USSR.
The USSR wasn’t perfect (and Stalin ruined most things that were good obviously) but they weren’t any worse than the USA or the west.