Never count a commie out until you have personally put a stake through their heart and waited a couple of hours to make sure that they don’t rise from the dead as did Lenin, Mao and Ho Chi Minh, among others. Batista should have shot Castro and Che when he had them. Lesson not learned.
Unlike Liberals who die only to rise each and every election day.
There was, I believe, an old maxim by W.F. Buckley: any organization that is not definitionally and avowedly anti-communist becomes communist over time. Such was the Russian Federation's fate.