cuba china, the recent ones in africa, vietnam… theres plenty in the modern era. pick your poison.

scandinavians come to my country to extract pollute and colonize it. very easy to be comfortable in such circumstances.

If we evict the socialist dictatures/guerillas led by marxist-leninist parties and other authoritarian flavors of communism, remains some attempts at libertarian communism, some surviving longer than other : Paris in 1871, Ukraine in 1917, Spain in 1936-1937 are short lived examples of past communist situations that brought social changes a century or half a century before they could be obtained again, for those we obtained back. Nowadays examples are Rojava and Zapatistad territoried in Chiapas, Mexico.

I was going to ask the same thing.