So the soviet union had a single famine 8 years after it was formed, compared to the hundereds before, in the middle of a great depression and complete isolation on the international stage, and you condemn the rest of its existence as being ‘plagued by starvation and hunger’?
P.s Heres a link to a declassified CIA document stating that compared to the average US diet, the soviets ate approximately the same amount of food, and had a more nutritious diet overall.
www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85M00363R000601440024-5.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiO-7euxM6AAxV-VkEAHaigD0UQFnoECBUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw06QRMVGCOurHDUtg96SRq0
Its satire. He doesn’t advocate for anything near a proletarian ruled society, just the bare fucking minimum amount of welfare that is also provided by other ‘developed’ countries.
Ever hear the term ‘Bernie killed rosa luxembourg’?
Its because he’s a social democrat and not a socialist, and when push came to shove, it was the social democrats who betrayed the workers revolution in germany, and who killed or ousted our comrades accross europe.
The reason for this satirisation in particular is likely down to a joke about how the media tends to view him.