Well I found this
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary ... evelopment"Countries that have proclaimed programs of noncapitalist development include the Democratic People’s Republic of Algeria, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Republic of Guinea, the Republic of Iraq, the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, the People’s Republic of the Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Somali Democratic Republic, and the Union of Burma. In these countries the political domination of foreign monopolies has been eliminated, and their economic domination is being undermined. Cooperation with the socialist states is expanding. The private sector is regulated and restricted, state and cooperative sectors of the economy have been established, and the conditions for their favorable development have been created. A struggle against the ideology of the exploiters is under way in the countries that have chosen the noncapitalist path. Other general democratic transformations have been introduced, laying the economic and social foundation for the transition to socialist construction and for improving the life of the people."
And the wikipedia article seems to have grouped together all self-proclaimed socialist states that were aligned in foreign policy with the USSR. Which is not a useless categorization, and quite useful for a geopolitical study from the Cold War standpoint. And I think is generally accurate in that sense. Even the cases I was unsure of, when I did more research seemed to fit. But you're right that it doesn't meet the Soviet definition of being on the road to any type of socialism. Like I was reading the GSE article on India, and while it notes its friendly relations with socialist countries, makes clear that the Congress Party is not aiming for real socialism.
There are some books I posted earlier that go into more detail about India specifically, and might go into more depth about their analysis of the "socialist" tendencies in India.
To be fair the GSE article was written in a specific date, and so might not be a complete listing, many of the countries listed by the wiki seems as socialist as Egypt or Burma, so its quite possible that in some Pravda articles they were described as socialist or non-capitalist oriented. Its also interesting to me that the GSE puts together self-proclaimed M-L regimes and completely non-marxian regimes together in the same category.