The kernel of truth here is that in the absence of a generational soviet enemy to point at, a huge amount of anticommunist (anti-Soviet) mythology has been rendered into weightless floating signifiers about 1894 Stalin Farm for anyone under a certain age, and most of what’s left our modern “socialist” boogeymen, are just basic policies necessary to have a society that our ghoul overlords have now spent decades villifying. There are a lot of busy people who only pay vague attention to political theater, and for them, when they think Socialism they think about basic concrete things to be able to live.