The White House Council of Economic Advisors has produced a report that links two major Democratic presidential candidates to the brutal regimes of Russia's Joseph Stalin and China's Mao Zedong.

The report, produced by a team of White House economists who advice President Trump on a range of economic matters, conducted a delved into literature and quotations of communism and Socialism and wrote a paper condemning a rival economic system thought to be on the wane since the Cold War.

'We find that historical proponents of socialist policies and those in the contemporary United States share some of their visions and intents,' going on to bash Democratic proposals to have the government become the 'single payer' for health care.

A new White House report links China's Mao Zedong and other communist leaders to leading Democratic presidential candidates and policy ideas

In an obvious slap, it uses the same lingo to note that Mao proposed having the communist Chinese government become 'the single payer for grain.'

'We begin our investigation by looking closely at the most highly socialist cases, which are typically agricultural economies, such as Maoist China, Cuba, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Their nondemocratic governments seized control of farming, promising to make food more abundant. The result was substantially less food production and tens of millions of deaths by starvation,' they write.

One page of the report references Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Mao, Cuba's Fidel Castro, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Sen. Bernie Sanders

The report also takes shots at 'the Nordic and European versions of socialized medicine' and make connections to the U.S. healthcare debate.

'Coincident with the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, socialism is making a comeback in American political discourse,' the report claims. 'Detailed policy proposals from self-declared socialists are gaining support in Congress and among much of the younger electorate.'

The report comes as Trump at his campaign rallies has been ramping up attacks on 'radical Democrats' in an effort to prevent a Democratic congressional takeover. He also charges Democrats will turn the U.S. 'into Venezuela.'

One passage quotes Karl Marks on 'modern bourgeois private property,' Mao on the ''the ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class' – followed by quotations from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders about large corporations exploiting consumers or workers to boost their profits.

Another passage links Sanders and Warren to bloody Chinese and Soviet regimes. 'The socialist narrative names the oppressors of the vulnerable, such as the bourgeoisie (Marx), kulaks (Lenin), landlords (Mao), and giant corporations (Sanders and Warren).'

Asked about Trump's frequent claims that Democrats would turn America into Venezuela if they win control of Congress in spite of a lack of empirical evidence to support the charge, a senior official on Monday pointed to Sanders' proposal to dramatically expand Medicare and have the federal government shoulder the burden.

The White House released the report weeks before the mid-term elections

The report begins withe 'most highly socialist cases' in China and the USSR, then goes after higher tax rates and Medicare for all proposals

'Certainly, I think that there are proposals on the table like the 'Medicare for All' proposal that are very consistent with the design of socialism,' the official told reporters during a White House call.

Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist.

A recent Reuters poll showed 70 percent of Americans support 'Medicare for All,' a program that has been gaining traction among Democratic candidates after being the subject of intra-party fights in the past.

The Trump adviser explained, 'I think that my role at CEA is not to be a politician but to be an analyst.'

'And if our study convinced people of all parties that if they rely on central planning and try to reduce the influence of private property, by either specifically nationalizing things or regulating and taxing things just about into oblivion, that would be bad for the overall economy, then I would feel like the paper had accomplished its objective.'

Another passage includes citations to a study of communist regimes including Cuba.

Kevin Hassett (left) chairs the Council of Economic Advisers

'We begin our investigation by looking closely at the most extreme, although not uncommon, socialist cases, which are Maoist China, Cuba, the USSR, and other primarily agricultural countries (Pipes 2003). Referring to these same countries, Janos Kornai (1992, xxi) explained that the 'development and the break-up and decline of the socialist system amount to the most important political and economic phenomena of the twentieth century. At the height of this system's power and extent, a third of humanity lived under it,' it notes.

'Present-day socialists do not want the dictatorship or state brutality that often coincided with the most extreme cases of socialism. However, peaceful democratic implementation of socialist policies does not eliminate the fundamental incentive and information problems created by high tax rates, large state organizations, and the centralized control of resources,' according to the report.

'It is not unusual for the White House to issue statements that reinforce the political themes the president's party is campaigning on before an election,' election attorney Brett Kappel told NBC. 'But it is very unusual for the Council of Economic Advisors — a supposedly nonpartisan body of experts — to be used for this purpose,' he said.