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>>9145118
Trying to separate Marx from communism is retarded but so is saying

Marxism = Soviet Union

With the failure of the German revolution (i.e. what was meant to be the industrial base of operations so to speak) the Russians were forced to defend their gains and fall back on state capitalism to

1. rapidly industralise the country
2. become strong enough to defend themselves from the growing fascist power on their borders

Naturally, what with this being a unique set of circumstances that they found themselves in, they fought amongst themselves trying to figure out how to "create the conditions for socialism" all the while presiding over capitalism. Of course their economy, although under state control, still operated under the logic of capital.

Eventually what with all the original revolutionaries dead and only a sad post-WWII population remaining, totally uninterested in "leading the world revolution" the country continued to degenerate from state capitalism to plain old capitalism.

tl;dr, it was fucked from 1922ish.