the ivan drago edit way of communist discussion seems to completely remove any solidarity with the working class in favour of following campist theories and ideals that have, undoubtedly, not actually worked at all in any meaningful way

when you try to ask these people for communist, articulated solutions for the demands of the real existing proletariat in their nations and ways to rectify capitalist contradictions and not just great gestures of future communist ideals of "demolishing western imperialism" or "creating a classless utopia" is exactly what bogged down the ussr into a degenerated worker's state - instead of inching towards utopianism by resolving real contradictions in the daily struggle, spending resources in a totalitarianist struggle such as the Cold War instead of following through on any of the economic or socialist ideals preached by the bolsheviks when discussions of a future soviet socialist state before the october revolution.

dont get me wrong, the cold war was definitely bound to happen no matter the circumstances, but the approach Stalin and his successors took to it- instead of cultivating native communist revolutions in eastern europe and asia, simply funding existing communist movements to turn Stalinist in nature and follow USSR hegemony was both anti-socialist in the broader sense of the term, and also simply anti-communist in its ideals. i have a lot to say on the topic but back from the tangent --