You don't always have the best alternatives available to you, even if you were clairvoyant enough to distinguish them. Would you say the russians were fools to

You don't always have the best alternatives available to you, even if you were clairvoyant enough to distinguish them. Would you say the russians were fools to embrace communism when they lived in a feudal system? The communist resistance in Europe started even before the US entered the war. Maybe if the US hadn't taken so long, things might have turned out different for the eastern bloc. Then again they might have taken a bashing for not being prepared and you would be under nazi rule still today.