The Czech workers and peasants formed militias, overthrowing their bourgeois government and established socialism on their own terms. Of course, in such an environment, the Soviet Union was a vital trading partner, especially considering the Red Army was the primary liberating force in Europe against the Nazi onslaught.

You’re high on over a century of anti-communist propaganda from the imperial core, the Five Eyes states in particular for the Anglosphere. Billions have been spent to have you see communism & communists as cartoon villains.

The USSR was socialist, and if it continued to exist the world would indeed be much brighter. You are making a racist argument that sees Russians as genetically evil, rather than making a materialist argument based on the mode of production and distribution.

I've read a good number of books on soviet history, I am a communist and a core part of that is understanding what went right and what went wrong in existing socialist societies. The Soviet Union was the world's first socialist state, so there's an enormous wealth of information to be learned from it. I stand by the simple assertion that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was an immense tragedy for the working classes around the world.