It's becoming clear that you think "socialism" just means "the scary politics that foreign people have" and don't actually understand it, otherwise you'd know what GP meant by this remark. At the very least you should try to understand what you think you oppose, because it sounds like you heard your dad complaining about some non-right-wing party then took that as your own politics and ran with it.
It is a bit dangerous to make such statements towards people you don't know, as you may end up looking quite a clown. In this particular case, I was born in a socialist country, my family lived in a socialist country for generations, and some perished from it, in very unpleasant ways. Some were members of The Party, too, won't deny it. I am literally the "foreign people" you are white-knighting here. I was taught the theory of socialism in school (only a little), I wore Lenin on my chest (when I was a little kid who didn't know better), and I had experienced the practice of it on my own body and mind and environment. I stood in the lines. I lived through the shortages. It's what I was born into and witnessed, and what my family members - which witnessed much worse things than I did - told me, and what other people, from whose personal experience I learned, told all the world - but not everybody wanted to learn. I don't claim I know all, and with all reading that I did about political theory and practice, I can't claim I know everything about socialists/communists - probably not. But I certainly know enough to make some conclusions, and likely - I know much more about it than you do.
If I am a little better than you are at guessing, I'd venture a guess that some older people around where you live could tell you a bit about the practice of socialism too, if you asked them. But I won't expand too much at that. I'll just say when trying to accuse others in being narrow-minded, it's useful to keep a mirror around.
Plenty of numbers if you know history.