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Why don't communist countries ever let people leave their nation on their own free will? Is this a misconception or is there actually an explanation?

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Because counter revolutionary forces will take advantage of it and brain drain the country

But what about all the advocacy for open borders and freedom of movement for the people? Does that only apply when communism has actually been achieved? I'm genuinely trying to understand.

Literally only the case in East Germany and used to stop brain-drain. Western Germany was showered with American money to make it appealing to eastern professionals among other reasons.

It's not just socialist countries. The US doesn't let people freely travel to Cuba or North Korea for instance.

China has done it as well. So has North Korea, but I feel they're not a fair country to make comparisons too. Defectors seem to be more frequent from socialist countries, but that could just be media manipulation.

Communism covers many different specific ideologies, some of which hate each other more than they oppose the right wing.

Several reasons. In particular, immigration damages social state. The argument was "well, we invested in you so much, but you went ahead and went to benefit our competitors"

Well obviously the free movement between comunist nations would likely not be counter revolutionary and would likely be allowed all stages.
This issue is primarily based on the material conditions of the situation and policies on free movment should probably vary dramatically depending on the situation.

Once full communism is achieved borders should be done away with as they're just a means of suppression imo

Until then they'll be needed to maintain order and a general sense of unity among the workers