What do you think the USSR was and give a logical reason on why it was.
It was different things at different times.
it was at times a great state and at times a falling country.
marxistcritic please ask questions like that on samofshs profile instead of starting an argument over who the soviets did and didn't kill.
Yeah, yeah.
The CCCP was different things at different times, under Lenin it was a transition state, he established small capitalistic systems with farms and such while controlling the major industries in order to facilitate the move from feudalism to communism. Stalin reversed the system and created an essentially autocratic corrupted communist state. Late in the period Gorby set up essentially a limited capitalist system which rapidly ran out of control and led to the dissolution of the nation itself. So it is difficult to pin one single name on the Union, but I do believe Trotsky had it right in general with a degenerated worker's state.
