There&#x27;s no &quot;no true Scotsman fallacy&quot; there, given that the structure of the regime did not even fit any of the definitions of communism that the regime itself gave.<p>Not even the Bolsheviks saw the USSR as a communist society. In fact, long after their coup, even Bolshevik ideologues were arguing about how many <i>generations</i> it would take before communism might be possible in the USSR.<p>Lenin, on introducing NEP in 1921 expected it to need to be in place for decades before even trying more far reaching socialist policies, much less communism.