I'm not sure why you think there will be a clear answer, since communism is not a word with a clear definition. It means many things to many people. It's no different to "capitalist" in this respect (and you often see lib-right people claim the US is "not real capitalism" because things like social security and govt bailouts exist).

It's obvious that "communist" policies don't entail that you have the same government as the USSR, so I think it's fair to call arguments that suggest so propaganda. It's probably meaningless to argue about whether the USSR had "true communism".

They don't want a clear answer. They never did, and likely never will.

That's the problem with this type of topic. As much as I like to talk about it, there never seems to be any real talk. People pick a side and arguments be damned.

The extent of their knowledge generally extends to "communism bad" and there's no good faith in actually talking about the shitty situation we're in today.

My original answer was not even citing communism at all. I was specifically talking about worker conditions, but people seem to be unable or unwilling to have a conversation and instead degrade it and down vote.