Indeed. And I'd say that's precisely how I can gauge the stupidity of Western Socialists, for one doesn't even need a first hand experience of that evil to understand its predestined nature.
In fact, while I could understand that people trapped under a Socialist rule and constantly fed with propaganda while being denied access to information could be misled, the same can't be said when it comes from activists in our open societies, where information is available.
They should know better. And if (when) they do, their excuse is not stupidity anymore but plain malevolence.