USSR was the only thing in the world that protect poor nations. USSR fought with colonialists and thanks to it dozens of nations become free after centuries of colonial slavery. You do not know what kind of people were Soviet people... They truely believed in "Liberty Equality Fraternity" and in a bright future for them and all ordinary wokers and peasants of the Earth. They were the most reading and sport people in the world. They sacrificed their lives for their Motherland...
Never again be such a people on Earth...
Don't explain it to me. I'm one of the admirers of this generation... That generation changed the World, and still their effect is ongoing. What I'm saying is completely different. How can we make it better? More robust? Something that can't be collapsed by the imperialist, capitalist, liberal democrats. If a system collapses, it's an horrible thing. If the people under your system's rule running away from it no matter what reason is, it's an horrible thing. Marxism needs a new spirit. A spirit that will guide the developing World to a prosperous future, a spirit that will end the bourgeois democracy.
China had Den Xiaoping as a reformist. They tried to adopt classical Marxism into something that they can develop themselves more rapidly. What CCCP needed was a reformist, that can readjust the country to the post WW2 conjecture.