And at that time the head of the CPUSA explained it away: “What they had in the Soviet Union was not communism. That is why it failed.”

So when it all comes down we are bound to hear that it was not Leftism that failed but a fake Leftism.

Croatian scholar Tomislav Sunic has a better explanation: Marxism failed in the Soviet-led East because it succeeded in the American-led West. Cultural Marxism dominates the West. That obviously includes the US right wing which wants to project American Power (including cultural Marxist values) around the world.