The USSR was a full blown socialist state. They managed capital in the practice, they also traded with other countries and let farmers do commerce due the war w

The USSR was a full blown socialist state. They managed capital in the practice, they also traded with other countries and let farmers do commerce due the war with them. but that was their strategy (on Russia) but in the rest of the socialist states they didn't. There's so much books written about this topic you can never end to find contradictions in their rules. Of course the elite lived like the best capitalists.