The USSR was implemented as Marx truly intended: overthrow of the bourgeois state, establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., socialism, or as Marx put it, the "lower stage of communism"), the gradual abolition of class (which the USSR obviously didn't achieve), and from that the gradual withering away of the state into what Marx called the "higher stage of communism," or just communism. 1/6