With all due respect some parts are crudely wrong and some absurd, and the decisiveness with which you state it is unjustified and makes it hard to take you seriously.
USSR ostensibly got rid of personal property
Absolutely not. They got rid of private property. Personal property means the ownership over your personal belongings. Private property is the ownership of non-governmental entities. What existed in the USSR was public property - the property of the state/party (state and party are to be seen interchangably in an authoritarian one party state)
USSR was state-capitalist
Also: No. Capitalism is defined by the existence of private property, concretely the private ownership of the means of production. There was no private property.
There also were no competitive markets, “free” price systems or a ubiquitous profit motive, finance capital and certainly more characteristics.
I can’t see how calling the USSR capitalist in any capacity is anything but absolutely ignorant. The best label to assign it is: state-socialist.
Both countries lied to the people to get a socialist revolution started
Where is that from? NED weekly magazine?;)
The USSR did fail the people in many regards, sometimes criminally so, and its important to understand them, but for that to happen we must undertake a serious attempt. There is a lot of neoliberal propaganda (“history is written by the winners” etc).
I didn’t talk about China bc calling it capitalist is significantly less absurd but rest assured I don’t subscribe to your statement.
Obligatory Michael Parenti
No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except for the ones that succeed
Its forgivable we have all been molded by the propaganda of out capitalist ruling class, but we can’t be content with that. Stay on course we need a better socialism but we can’t learn with closed eyes