• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      Technically correct. There has never been a communist state because communism is a socio economic system that by definition is stateless. The USSR most definitely was socialist though, and implementing communism definitely was their goal.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      20 hours ago

      The Soviet Union was a socialist state. The workers ran and controlled the state and the economy to serve the needs of the people. Communism is beyond socialism, and the USSR never developed into that.