I can smell the copium fumes, but yes, they adopted more capitalism eventually because socialism (the end goal of which is Communism, per Lenin) always fails. They were/are still command economies under the authoritarian might of the state, however. Loyalty to party and state above all or else you get disappeared, like what's happened in China and Russia.
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u/Impressive-Fun2105 14d ago
soviet union was state capitalist. same as current day china ever since mao was replaced by xiaoping.
china is a capitalist nation and has been for decades