You're not listening, but that's OK, because others are listening. I don't expect you to read anything I post or to think rationally. I will respond to your silly comment for the sake others, who are genuinely searching for answers. I will start my response with a rhetorical question. How do you define communism? What you define as communism, isn't communism. It's a Cold War caricature of communism.
The USSR wasn't a communist state, because communism is stateless, without a state or with a very small state. Is that what the Soviet Union was? NO. The USSR was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Do you see the word "communist" there anywhere? No you don't. The USSR was a national socialist union comprised of several republics.
Right wingers like you often identify the American democrats as communists or socialists. How many times do we read posts posted by right-wing conservatives on this forum, asserting that AOC and the Democratic Party in general, are all a bunch of "commies"? They say this because a few democrats, like AOC and Bernie Sanders, are for universal medicare, tuition free education, for housing the homeless, and for labor unions and...etc. What you fail to grasp is that, following your right-wing conservative metric of what is "commie", Western Europe is now COMMIE. The modern, industrialized world is COMMIE/SOCIALIST. You can't have your cake and eat it too, sorry.
Communism is the final objective or goal of socialism. Communism is a stateless society, without socioeconomic classes or the need for money. Why do socialists identify themselves as communists? For the same reason that Christians identify themselves or their brethren in Christ, as "saints" or the "sons of God", even without being fully sanctified and inheriting eternal life. Sainthood is the objective, or archetype of your devotion to Christ.
Far-left socialists like me, often identify themselves as communists, because communism is the goal or aim, of our socialism. We identify ourselves with the final objective, to inspire and direct us towards that reality, in the future. Technically, we are socialists on the path to communism.
There are many countries in the world that are socialist and provide their citizens with a very good standard of living. If a society tries to advance socialism, beyond markets and any form of capitalism, before it has the technology and required social consciousness and attitude, it will fail, especially in a world under the heel of American big money capitalists and their cronies in the US and EU governments. Every nation that has tried to establish a non-market socialist economy, identifying itself as a Marxist, socialist country, without any private property, invites the full wrath and power of the capitalist American empire.
The US controls the world economy by having its USD the world's reserve currency. This grants the US, an extreme amount of control over world finance. Banks are under the authority and thumb of American capitalist elites and their cronies in Washington, hence if a nation is sanctioned economically, it will be ostracized from the international community and turned into a leper. No country or private corporation, wants to send its expensive cargo ships to Cuba, because any ship that anchors in a Cuban port is barred from anchoring in American territory for 180 days (six months). You want your ships locked out of American ports for six months, in order to do business with Cuba? Nope.
The USSR was in a state of war from its birth in 1917 to its death in 1991. Can anyone rationally argue that because the USSR eventually lost its war with capitalism, socialism will never replace capitalism? That's an irrational argument, because the conditions and circumstances of the USSR in the 20th century is not the same conditions and circumstances socialism is in now in the 21st century. We are in a much better position, due to advanced production technology and the fact that China and Russia are allies. Russia isn't a socialist country, as it once was and one might argue that China isn't that "socialist" either, but nonetheless they're very "commie friendly".
American socialists won't have the same challenges that the USSR had, because we were the big capitalist bully in the room. The 800 pound capitalist gorilla, will convert to socialism, hence we will not be bullied by capitalists as the USSR and countries like Cuba are today. We also have very advanced automation technology, hence we're in a completely different situation than the USSR was, or Cuba, or North Korea is today. We won't be under sanctions, we will be close friends with Russia and China, creating an extremely powerful alliance. So your appeal to the past to try to give the false impression that socialism can't work in America, is quite misinformed and irrational.