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Were socialist Albania, Russia and Yugoslavia doing well economically ?

Apparently Churchill said « Stalin inherited Russia with a wooden plough and left it in possession of atomic weapons ».

Rationalwiki claims that : Under his long administration, Enver Hohxa oversaw the economic and social transformation of Albania from a feudal relic which was formerly ruled by a despot named Zog to a relatively modernized state.

Rationalwiki also claims that : Yugoslavia tended to enjoy a better quality of life than its Warsaw Pact neighbors with significantly better access to consumer goods (both foreign and domestic) and generally had fewer restrictions on its citizens. 
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I dont get it. I though that socialism caused economies to collapse ?

Are those socialist dictators actually hated for the brutal repressions under their regimes, and not for their economic policies ?

But then, if their economic policies had been applied by a non-dictator person, like Alexander Dubček, could have socialism turned out better ?
gpt
They were all different cases.

Albania: it had nothing in 1945. No roads, no brick buildings (except in some city centers), no industry. The whole economy relied on subsistence farming. The communists industrialized it, but then broke their trade ties with other communist countries. The economy stagnated after 1960s, though growth between 1945 took it from an economy that relied on good weather to not have mass starvation, to an industrialized economy. So there was rapid improvement, followed by a long stagnation. For 1960 that was good, but for 1990 not enough.

Yugoslavia: easily one of the success stories until 1985. Overall, Yugoslavia was quite open, since they had a special form of socialism and were not closed to trade with the west. Their main plague was nationalism which resulted in ethnic discrimination. Some regions were not allowed to industrialize until the 1970s.

USSR: until 1965 or so, they were on par with the US in many areas. But their production was very wasteful, which led to stagnation once full employment was reached. There is a big literature that explains this phenomenon.