Every time I talk about communism to my extremely right-wing dad, he always says without fail “The high-ranking members of the communist party are elitists who live like kings in mansions and drive luxurious cars while the rest of the population live like peasants. That makes them worse than capitalists.” I call that bs, but I dont know much about the wealth differences between high-ranking party members and the rest of the populous. Is it really that wide?
In socialist Poland the wage gap between the lowest and highest was around 1 to 6, and there was not many people who got the 6. Party and military leaders lived comparably to small time burgies of West Germany for example.