True Communism has never been tried

Western leftists conviniently forget the 3year period of War Communism in Russia, a brief experiment with "True Communism" that failed so hard, Lenin started NEP(new economic program, semi-centralised market economy) to allow USSR to survive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_communism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy

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Very wrong. The soviets didn't cede an inch of political freedom. They just exploited greed and economic competition to grow economic output when it was needed. Then they tightened the screws and milked it all for profit(industrialization).
It was also an illustration that "True Communism" is too idealistic and naive to exist in a modern society(perhaps that the only good argument for anarcho-primitivist communism).