

the USSR definitely was not fascist, but it did evolve into in oligarchy, especially into the 70s and 80s leading to its collapse.
When the only way to have power/accumulate material wealth is through climbing the party’s social ladder and staying on the good side of the people in power it seems to me like a natural development that power consolidates in the few that have control/sway over the party and say who gets what
idk you can hold the position that neither are great, and one is more badder than the other.
for example enacting/overseeing a genocide is not very pog
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Chechens_and_Ingush