They've not really been socialist since Hugo.Modern day Venezuela is probably more instructive - they are pretty comfortable with theft and abduction...
The norther European countries are all better examples of what larue calls 'communism' but sane people just call more democratic socialism.
http://www.alternet.org/economy/kru...hern-european-socialism-succeeds-job-creationECONOMY
Krugman: How American Capitalism Fails—and Northern European 'Socialism' Succeeds—at Job Creation
And why that's not a story the mainstream media likes to tell.