I'm not really arguing with you. I don't really sense us having opposite views so an argument wouldn't benefit us. I'm discussing. I'm trying to learn, understand what your views are and see how mine relate and where they differ.

Let me give you a view of what I know about USSR, (mostly wrong I know) Everyone needs to call each other comrade; everyone has the same/similar wage; everything is controlled by the state; there is no democracy; corruption is rampant; socialism means that everyone was equally poorly fed; no-private property means that the state just took what was yours (never did schools mention the fact to us that it was mostly the means of production, the only way I could relate to it was them taking what we had and keeping it for themselves); no mention is ever made of How Communist(What we called Russians) leaders were chosen. So yeah, a bunch of misinformation (which I know is inaccurate cause I haven't ever tried to verify it)