And they didn't just call themselves socialists; they truly were. The usual idiots on the left will want to say "Oh, they just co-opted the word and used it for something else." No, they didn't. They actually did socialist things and much of the evil that they perpetrated is a direct result of those policies.

Leftists are fond of pretending words don't mean what they mean. Never let them get away with this. If someone tries to tell you racism isn't about treating people different because of race but has to have an institutional power component, insult them to their stupid, stupid face for pushing that lie.