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Oh look, pretty much exactly what us communists and scientific socialists, as opposed to utopian ones, have been saying to begin with.
Michael Parenti - Blackshirts and Reds:
I wouldn't say the USSR "fell short" though. They were absolutely on the right track and successfully vastly improved the lives of its citizens over what came before, taking the region from feudal backwaters to humanity's first space explorers in just 30 years, and rivaling a 200 y/o superpower in the process.
Its illegal dissolution by Gorbechev and his western allies was opposed by over 90% of the population and was a disaster that the former Soviet states still haven't fully recovered from 33 years later.