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There is no such thing as the "political upper class." Bureaucrats do not form their own class, but are instead a subsection of a broader class, in the case of the USSR, the working classes. Socialism in the USSR and PRC brought a tremendous democratization of society, and solidified power in the hands of the working classes as a whole, who are not distinct from the members of the working classes in the government. Stalinism is not a thing, beyond Stalin's specific economic policies. The ideology of the USSR and PRC is Marxism-Leninism.
Further, there is no genocide against Ukrainians, unless you mean the ethnic repressions against native Russians in the Donbass region by Kiev. War is not genocide. The genocide of Palestinians is absolutely genocide as "Israel" is an apartheid regime, but the Russo-Ukrainian war is not a genocide.
I'm a communist, I think my support for Marxism made that obvious.
You are not supporting Marxism only, you are throwing some authoritarian Stalinist/Putin propaganda in there.
You can support one and not the other you know.
I'm supporting the world's first federation of socialist states, and accurately describing the Russo-Ukrainian War, both from a Marxist-Leninist perspective. Stalinism does not exist beyond specific socioeconomic policies of Stalin, the ideology of the USSR was Marxism-Leninism. If you want to learn more about Marxism-Leninism, I wrote a basic study guide.
You haven't really backed up any of your own claims or attacked any of mine. You just called my points "propaganda," as though the accusation alone is a point. Please bring a real point, or reconsider your strategy.