We are often told that the fall of the Soviet Union was incontrovertible evidence of the failure of communism. 

This concerted campaign of slanders and lies, which falsely ties communism to the bureaucratic crimes of Stalinism, is spread by the ruling class and their cronies in order to undermine the struggle to overthrow capitalism today. 

In this talk, Niklas Albin Svensson from our international leadership explains how and why the USSR collapsed. He demonstrates that it was not communism, but a bureaucratic deformation which failed.