And Lenin is still sitting up there in Red Square big as day. 2016

So, things are probably not exactly as they appear. Russians are world historic actors in both senses . Like the Party had to go "underground"/incognito to chill out nuclear confrontation ; socialism with Cold War cooling out characteristics . The only one above ground is Lenin.

The Party has a tradition of liquidationism if the situation demands it. That is perhaps the type example of how flexible Marxist tactics can be . The First International was liquidated by Engels and Marx. Nothing lasts forever ; that's dialectics.Somethings end sooner than you thought that they would. smiles

I mean so many people were dogging out Soviet socialism anyway . Why should the Communist Party continue to uphold it and be tagged as dogmatic and Stalinist around Europe and America, where the strongest working classes were, with the most developed forces of production ? They took a page from the TROTSKYISTS ANALYSIS ! Ok you Trotskyists say this is really state-capitalist ? We'll pull down the red flag , stop waving the red flag in front of the nuclear armed imperialist bull, and declare state-capitalism . Oh and give final independence to the Russian Empire in the process . Even Belarus ( gulp).