0 o 0 I got a nonexpected reply . This helps . Much helps . Much thank . <| sep |> I was gonna say Keep , but . <| sep |> Socialism is defined as a political and economic system that advocates for worker or community ownership of the means of production . So in that sense , the USSR were not really in any way socialist . The state merely replaced the role of private employers . For the workers , it hardly matters if a private individual , or if a government official is bossing you around . In fact , the USSR were in many ways enemies to attempts at actual worker controlled economies around , for example , the anarchocommunists of Ukraine Free Territories got crushed by the bolsheviks , same with the Kronstadt Rebellion . They even sent weapons and tanks to the fascists in Spain , fighting against the anarcho communists in Catalunya .