> I'd say the CPSU is dead, but some of its members who liked power more than communism shifted with the political winds. What is communism? Peace in the world

> I'd say the CPSU is dead, but some of its members who liked power more than communism shifted with the political winds. What is communism? Peace in the world, and utopia for workers? Or more like mafia-serfdom-militarist system, where actual proletariat are put lowest of the low, and abused by everybody on the party ladder, and what USSR actually was for most of its history? The CPSU never, ever cared for one, and even lowest tiers in the party were fully aware of this. In this, it's true that the communist party of the soviet union never ever been the dictionary definition of communism (which they themselve defined) It was a cynical kratocratic cult without any morals.