[Zhang Fei]

And the Soviets did their share of looting after the war and sent tons of stuff from Germany and Poland back to Mother Russia, to be divvied out to the high Party Officials.

I'd say the difference is between having your own car vs driving the company car.

[05 Mustang GT Rocks]

Not quite so. They still accumulated vast amount of wealth that they kept frothier families even after retirement. Even the ones that were purged kept the so called “personal” property they had since under communism private property was abolished supposedly. We used to call them the “red aristocracy”. But you can believe the BS that somehow the communists were better than the Nazis. Both ran the countries they took over like their personal fiefdoms and the talk about the “working lass” is the same drivel you hear from the democrats today about the poor, the women, the children, etc. same song, different verse.