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Don't get why you're downvoted. Probably all the people who've never actually lived in communist states.
Very true of the criticisms of the USSR, to be sure. What you have to remember is that the USSR had a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party system implementing the so-called "dictatorship of the proletariat" in order to, at some point in the future, achieve "true" communism. The USSR was intended more as a transition phase than a permanent form of government & economy. For many reasons, it did not work out.
For many reasons that anarchists had perfectly predicted long before the Russian revolution, of course.