[Kasu]

It was a degenerated workers' state. The Stalinist bureaucracy was not a new ruling class, but a bureaucratic caste that was in a constant struggle to become a new ruling class, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the reinstatement of capitalism signified the moment when they became that ruling class.

It wasn't state capitalist. Capitalism has internal contradictions that make them vulnerable to global economic crises. There wasn't a single capitalist country that wasn't devastated by the Great Depression, not even Nazi Germany, or Fascist Italy.. Except state capitalist Soviet Union? I don't think so. It was a degenerated workers' state.