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I am certainly allowed to doubt the veracity of a claim that apparently is found to be highly skeptical according to the many other wikipedia readers and editors.
They were authoritarian dictators. You seem to be unclear on the concept of how a four point political compass works. There are separate axis for authoritarian and economic views.
The similarity between Stalin and Hitler is that they're both heavily authoritarian and citizens can suffer under authoritarian rule. That's the common denominator, not economic distribution. Socialism doesn't require an authoritarian dictatorship.
Ghandi is closer to where I'd argue that socialism is supposed to land on the compass than Stalin.
Sounds like you have figured out that they had a propensity to tyranny (authoritarianism, here). Thats where Marxists end up.
Incidentally years ago I took a political spectrum test and landed right where Friedman is, Im cool with that.