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>No communist party ever took power in Venezuela, as a country it still works like it used to before Chaves, with the same institutions, only Maduro is the president now. You may be referring to Chaves' failed coup in the 90s, but I don't see how it could hold any relevance
Again, Venezuela was socialist and it collapsed. You're pushing goalposts for your arguments. Your Cuba argument is woefully inconsistent. You want to claim the improves to Cuba after the communist revolution as a success, but then dismiss the anti-communist revolutions that improved Eastern Europe? You can't have it both ways - if you accept Cuba's revolution improving living standards, you'd have to accept the revolutions of 1989 improving Eastern Europe.
>URSS also increased life expectancy and the economy saw a large growth
The Tsar's economy was already doing well before the Russian Revolution too, like Cuba, so that also results out that argument.
http://economics.mit.edu/files/8702