Libratarism has never worked, just look every time it's been tried, it's created extreme poverty and extreme rich for a few.
The Soviet Union also btw wasn't socialist, communist or whatever. Stalinism is very different to Marxism. Stalinism has much more in common with state capitalism.
Not these tired arguments again...
It's an old argument, but it doesn't make it any less true. I can explain it to you if it would help?
In Marxism we call each development in society an epoch. We start off with the cave men, then we move to tribalism, then to feudalism, then to capitalism, then the industrial revolution and finally a workers state (whatever you want to call that). If you google it you'll find an explanation for each step.
Russia at the time of their revolution was in the transition from a feudal society to a capitalist society, very backwards compared to other nations like Germany, Britain, France, America, etc.
The problem was that the revolutions in the rest of Europe failed, in Germany (where it would have been key) you had the right (Hitler) fighting the Communists. Then you had a lot of people in the middle (Liberals) who first sided with the Communists and then suddenly sided with Hitler and fascism took hold, and all the communists were sent off to the camps promptly followed by the jews.
Now for socialism, Communism whatever, to work it has to be international, you can't have a lone communist state, which is what any Marxist would agree upon before Russia and after. So as Russia became isolated it descended into a nationalist nightmare. Stalin (who btw did not take part in the revolution) thought this was good, he believed in 'socialism within one state', which is the opposite of Marxism. Socialism within one state isn't sustainable so he had to crush all decent, anyone that spoke out were murdered during the October trials, and then afterwards with his secret police and what not. This was top down whereas for a workers revolution to work it must come from the masses and be ruled by the masses (bottom up).
So Russia is nothing like what any Marxist would call a workers state, it's the opposite, it's state capitalism where you have a free market of sorts while the government like now pretends it's a dermcascy but really only has the elities interests at heart. In our case the Corporations and the political classes, in russias case the so called central committee at the time. When the soviet union fell the exact same people then took up all the key positions in the private sector, nothing really changed. You can argue that it still wouldn't work national or international (I disagree of course) but not that Russia ever did or became what Marxists talk about as Communism, Socialism, a workers paradise, etc.