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There is no communist country on this planet, all examples you are thinking about are countries which have achieved socialism to some degree. Most of them are ruled by parties which want to achieve communism eventually (and thus call themselves communist parties). Nobody is claiming that those countries have achieved communism.
And also, working people in those countries have it much better than their capitalist neighbours. There is a very clear difference if you look at speed of quality of life changes, HDI improvements, wealth distribution, or minority rights.
The ideal of communism is an impossible utopia. When people talk about communism they're talking about the examples we've seen in practice.
If you only want to talk about utopias, capitalism has one just as good and just as impossible. You could say that true capitalism has never been seen yet.