>>2652820Lenin's fudemental shortcoming was his weakness on problem of dealing with bureaucracy where he wrote just 'educate workers' into being bureaucrats to resolve the problem ignoring fact that such elevation would just lead to them having own interests. Despite later toying of Stalin and co. around with various ideas, it ultimately wrecked USSR as this class grew alien, althrough bureaucracy was quite overrated in list of problems compared to many other factors in fall of USSR, both structural and more random.
You witness conflict between nocklumentra class in Hungary Bulgaria DDR and China very explicitly where formerly radical workers are clashing over bureaucratic control, which is quite bad and testament to shortcoming of just administrative methods to build socialism. A kind of producer-technocratic democracy&whole process democracy was necessary on a more serious way.
USSR missed technical-revolution, its system of economic planning rewarded bad behaviors, it spent half of industrial output on military, military&security interests control budget(andrponov puts 80 percent on war against china), its own leaders go to west and prefer there&want their approval, their failed 'allies' as derg are spending almost entire budget in self-mutiliation and war, they start off from inferior technology, unproductive agr. sector due to too much unnecessary laborers(as with experimental efforts show sov. agri. couldh have been better ran), failure to renovate capital stock in right cycles despite efforts, low funding for medicine causing stagnation in life exp. in brezhnevian era, party-state which increasingly became nihilistic and lost revolutionary belief, added with gorbachevs genius plans of creating dual economy which crashed the system etc.
If Lenin and Rosa won by Lenins proposal for earlier peace actually winning out and Rosas desire for electoral path meeting success with hyperinflation discrediting SPD and Kapp Putsch, German-Soviet Int. would resolve 99 percent of problems and lead to worldwide communism with more sensible planning and technocratic-proletarian planning appratus than OTL.