As I explained, you don't "collapse" back to freedom. You recover from communism, you collapse into communism.
These "fears" are described by Solzchenitsyn and many other survivors of the horrors. They were real, not fiction, and a direct consequence of what happens when economies contract.
Oh, and there's no bread in the communist utopia either.
RE: The U.S. Empire's Collapse into Communism: Why America's Present Mood Echoes 1917, not 1991