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Don't know what you're trying to say with "it wasn't," it was absolutely a Socialist state working towards Communism. I never said it was heaven on Earth either, in fact I linked a critique of the USSR from a Marxist perspective that doesn't dogmatically reject or uphold it. The USSR was real Socialism, that doesn't mean it was heaven or hell.
I've asked a couple of history nerds, and I stand corrected: my impression that totalitarianism was a form of autocracy was wrong (rather both are a form of dictatorship). They've mentioned that under Stalin it could've been considered one, tho, but given he was the 2nd gensec, it's not exactly relevant to undissolving.