The concepts of "Communism" and "Fascism" are forms of government, and these concepts deal mostly with the economic policies of the government, and how much power the government exercises on the country, its people and its means of production. However, modern far-leftist social justice ideologues do not care about this, and just call everybody they don't like a "Fascist". Most of them believe Communism to be the best form of government, and think that the USSR was a paradise.
The USSR was, in fact, the epitome of Communism pretty much to a T. The USSR did indeed implement all of the fundamental principles of Communism pretty much to their maximum extent.
But let's examine what the USSR was like, from the perspective of the social justice ideology definition of "Fascism", and how well it fits.
For starters, homosexuality was banned in the USSR, and could lead to harsh punishment, including jail sentences. Assuming the state police didn't just take you to a back alley and put a bullet in your head, just to save time and paperwork.
The USSR had some of the tightest border control in the history of humanity. People were not allowed to leave the country, and any deserters trying to cross the border out of the country were shot. (People are mostly aware of this kind of thing from North Korea and the former East Germany, but the same situation was true in the USSR.) People trying to come in were scrutinized to great extents and required extensive documentation and paperwork.
On that same theme, the interior of the country was likewise tightly controlled by state police. The USSR was a police state, the police and the KGB engaged in mass surveillance and control of people, and police corruption and abuse was very widespread. Any form of dissent or rebellion was usually met with violence from the police. The police murdering dissenters was common.
The social justice neo-socialists claim that in Capitalism people are treated like slaves for pitiful salaries while the bosses reap all the benefit and money. This is just projection, because this was actually the case in the USSR. In fact, it was much, much worse than that in the USSR. The government assigned you a job, and you were pretty much forced to do that job whether you wanted or not, and whether it was your desired career or not, and you had no choice. And this for a minimum allowance that was barely enough to survive. If you refused to do that job, or did it badly, you would be punished.
It was common for Communist politicians and influencers to boast how there was no unemployment in the USSR. That might actually have been technically true. What they didn't say is that this was because of forced labor, and forcing people to do jobs they weren't qualified for or wanted.
Moreover, leadership positions eg. at factories and corporations were granted more on the basis of political connections than competence and merit. It was extremely common for the managers and bosses at the workplaces to be completely incompetent at it, having got the job because of their political connections rather than their expertise (and this was, in fact, one of the major reasons why the USSR always struggled economically, as factories and companies were often badly mismanaged.)
All newspapers were owned by the government and thus all acted as propaganda mouthpieces for it. Likewise there was a massive amount of censorship, not only of the newspapers, radio and television, but of individual people. Nobody was allowed to become a public speaker or any sort of celebrity unless carefully schooled to parrot the talking points of the Communist regime.
And if we go further into the modern social justice mentality, all positions of power, all of them, were held by white men, all the police were white men, and anybody with any sort of influence were white. Karl Marx himself was not only a white men, but in fact a bona fide racist who said rather despicable things about black people (a fact that you will never hear the social justice warriors and neo-communists admit).
By the modern social justice standards, the USSR was as fascist of a country as you could possibly get.
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