Lorelei! I just thought of that when I clicked on this thread again! LOL arrrrgh
Actually, this economy is not really communist. It has elements of a command economy, so it seems closer to a dictatorship, like fascist Italy, or Franco's Spain if it wasn't isolated from the international community up till 1975.
Remember, fascism holds elements of corporatism, the Soviet economy had just national methods of production and did not have private enterprise as an option.