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HoI4 and Victoria 3 are nice games for escapism to make timelines that aren't miserably bleak, but there's definitely a steep learning curve for sure. And with mods, there's a lot of neat scenarios and start dates you can pick from to start your global communism run, such as mods that cover the Cold War, the 2000s, the 2020s, etc. I recently played a nifty one called Red Dusk that started in 2000 with the premise that the August Coup was successful in removing Grobachev.
There's a small indie studio call ~~Kremlin Games~~ NostalGames that makes kinda janky political simulators about socialist states, like Crisis in the Kremlin which is about late 80's USSR, China: Mao's Legacy which covers 1970s+ China, and Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall which covers the other Warsaw Pact states in the late 80's. I think the latter also has DLC for Cuba, Yugoslavia, and the DPRK.
Just wanted to add they're called NostalGames now and they just released Crisis in the Kremlin 2 about a month ago. Def worth checking out all their games if you can get past their clunky UIs