It’s interesting to read about how words like this mean completely different things over the many thousands of years of it developing from the Indo-Europeans. The word used to be sokwhiyós back when the Yamnaya and Botai peoples domesticated the horse. That word meant “follower, companion, banding together, putting differences aside so as to overcome hardship” I studied linguistics and human geography in college.

They disbanded worker councils so I wouldn’t call the USSR socialist.

Those were just the frozen tears of the proletariat drifting east from Europe

Sure wasn’t when the USSR existed