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The USSR was not communist. They had a communist ideology, sure, but the definition essentially comes down to a communist society being stateless while also being a dictatorship of the proletariat (that is, ALL the workers are essentially the leader at the same time and they make decisions collectively through direct democracy). And the USSR could only _barely_ fit that definition for about one or two years before Lenin essentially steered it into a regular autocratic dictatorship with communist aesthetics.