Technically then they aren’t wrong to equate this to the USSR - it’s important to remember that both china and Russia are “transitioning” to communism, although both are kind of stuck in the in between phase where the people who should be ushering in that change found instead that they can wield authoritarian power to enrich themselves and subjugate others.

Other side of things is you’re absolutely correct that this feels like a fascism, which is what this administration continues to feel like…over and over and over and over again