I have two friends who grew up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
They worked in the fields unproductively like others like themselves, both were young physicists and not farmers.
One day the local commune leader came and all of the people were instructed to form 2 lines, males in one line and females in the other.
The local leader then declared that each was married to the person closest in the other line.
How’d that work out?
They could only be together 2 weeks each year while on vacation.
Later when the rules became more lax, they emigrated to the USA, she became a citizen and he moved back to China. Their daughter married a Dutch guy and moved to the Netherlands. That was 15 years ago. None of them have kept in touch since.
Ain’t socialism romantic?