The point GP was making is more nuanced than that. The governments of eastern Bloc countries were well aware their citizens were not well off and would remain so for a long time to come. I imagine that Chile under Allende hadn’t quite hit that stage, and presumably the government still had some belief they were on the road to prosperity. Also I’m no expert, and it might be splitting hairs but can we really describe the Chilean government of the time as “communist”?