Its a big lie because it has been used as a way to keep dictators in power. Stalin used it as a way to force farmers into collectives, providing for the government's selfish agenda before they could have share to live off of. It was a way to starve people off to make them desperate so they would be much more likely to give in..
Implementing socialism for certain functions that we absolutely depend on would be a benefit (As we do now in the United States with energy and medicare) if was put into the hands of the people for the people. Once you allow selfish people to consolidate power it always ends up corrupting the system, regardless of what kind of system it is.
You really dont understand what socialism is, you just heard things about it and repeat as if its fact like 90% of the rest of the sheep in this country. Governments are run by people you dont blame the system for its problems you blame the people who are running it, and ultimately the people who put them their in the first place. Which is, unfortunately us. We dont have enough people in the world who want to understand what is happening behind the scenes. And this is why there is so much corruption in the world today. People tend to want to be controlled by others because they dont want to take real responsibility for there life.