Russia’s Communist U.S.S.R. state model and attempts to export it worldwide crashed. The U.S.S.R. satellites and republics found it too repressive. It was dumped unceremoniously by some half-billion people by 1991.

The model was too authoritarian, unjust, riddled with corruption, poverty, wars, and murders. It was dangerous; dismissed by all except dictators. One of the latest to embrace it, Venezuela, now finds itself in economic and political ruin while it’s substantial energy wealth is sequestered, conveniently, in Russia. True, China’s Communist model works, but to succeed it adopted a healthy dose of western elements.