No one said that. Just that the Soviets had useful cultural aspects worth adopting. "We are used to thinking of the Politburo as a group of unimaginative gray b

No one said that. Just that the Soviets had useful cultural aspects worth adopting. "We are used to thinking of the Politburo as a group of unimaginative gray bureaucrats, but they were bureaucrats who dared to dream astounding dreams." (http://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit http://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declinin...) Both the US and former Soviet Union are culturally backwards in many ways, but each has aspects worth learning from. One can easily think of societies improved beyond both "theirs & ours," which also unleash imagination.