What's NOT propaganda is the 100 million people who died from the communist since 1900.So you're talking about "states" where socialism led to a "withering away" of the state machinery and of classes. So these "states" are/were without classes, and had no state machinery of courts, police, private businesses, regulations. Hence they were/are "communist states".
Don't you know that a communist society is stateless and classless BY DEFINITION? And such a state has never existed?
Or were you actually talking about "states" that were under the control and direction of a communist party and the communist IDEOLOGY of that party, and so you meant "communist ideology and control" and not a socio-economic system, or "state"?
Oh! And BTW, keep in mind that you were observing and drawing conclusions in the context of some of the most intense propaganda in the world.