Russia was so close to greatness… a democratic and socialist supermajority government…

What if the might that went to the Soviet Union went to a democratic and at least somewhat genuinely socialist polity instead? What a better place we would all be in. Even if the Cold War and all of its bullshit still went down in the end, if the preferred government of Russian vassals had been “Multiparty socialist democracy” instead of “Single-party totalitarian regime”…

Makes me want to weep.