Why a lot of people talk about communism - not having the experience of living in a communist country?

We got blow by blow accounts from people who escaped the iron fist of communism. And their accounts are remarkably consistent. Plus we've seen pictures, the dilapidated buildings, the people standing in food lines, the dead bodies. Yuck. Oh and the party bosses, the so-called leaders of the workers' paradise, having all of their needs met while the workers starved