I'd read up on the Bolshies a bit. They were murderous thugs. That's not exactly propaganda, that's a mix of Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and various bios of the principal players.

"Toddler with a hand grenade" is exactly right. Thing is, it was ever thus. None of this even remotely compared to the disruption had because of color (organic) chemistry.

Question the status quo all you want, but it's always there for a reason. One need not make a fetish of it to observe that it took all the errors we could muster to get it this far.