Socialism absolutely works. The issues with the soviet economy following WWII were magnified by the immense devastation the war brought, along with huge sanctions and trade embargoes from the west, all while trying to keep up with nuclear arms development so as to not end up completely obliterated by the US. On top of that, the Khruschevite reforms spelled the beginning of contradictions building within the socialist system, introducing elements in the economy working against each other, further magnified by Gorbachev and eventually Yeltsin.

Central planning works astoundingly well when properly implemented, but isn’t a perfect panacea. We can look to the immense success it has today in the PRC to see that planned economies do remarkably well, and part of why the PRC is so successful is because they have learned from some of the errors committed by the soviets.

KPRF membership is skyrocketing, as is soviet nostalgia. Trade with socialist countries is pushing the working class in Russia back to socialist sympathies. Capitalism was and is devastating for Russia.