[SuziQ]

The former USSR didn't manage that here.

Did they EVER manage anything well?

[cogitator]

Did they EVER manage anything well?

Big May Day parades on Red Square?

[Robwin]

“The former USSR didn’t manage that here.

Did they EVER manage anything well?”

Yep. Tours of the Soviet Union that snookered gullible Western Liberals and fellow Travelers (and some not so gullible) into panegyric encomiums on the wisdom and vision of Stalin.