NO doubt about it. Absolutely I'm denying it
The “heart” of Communism as practiced in the USSR lies not in the beautiful Russian soul of Orthodox Russia but rather in the West, most immediately with the ravings of Marx and Engels and Lenin and previous to them Darwin and before him the Enlightenment philosophes.
Homos Sovieticus is alive and well in every stinking corner of the world especially here in the USA.
Nonsense. The people of the Russian Empire made their own bed and created the Soviet Union. Don't blame the West.
most immediately with the ravings of Marx and Engels and Lenin and previous to them Darwin and before him the Enlightenment philosophes.
Lenin was born and bred in the Russian Empire, so you can't pretend he was some sort of foreigner. And what does it say about Russians that they fell for the nonsense of Marxism and Communism while their contemporaries in the West rejected it? (sometimes, violently so).
Russians have always been fond of blaming others for their own problems. That doesn't fly.