I don't have "dream states." No socialist country has ever or will ever be perfect. If we look at Cuba, they originally criminalized homosexuality. However, because Marxism-Leninism is an emancipatory ideology, socialist states generally were more progressive than the regimes they replaced, and continued to improve. Cuba now has one of the world's most progressive and queer friendly family codes, and has apologized vehemontly for how they treated queer people in the mid-20th century. By placing the working class in control, social progress is expedited.

As for "dissidents," the large majority were landlords, slavers, fascists, capitalists, murderers, terrorists, etc. I won't cape for them, and instead state that it's sheer brutal necessity that building up state power in socialist society is a necessary evil to protect the gains of socialism.