Like, maybe it's reflective of an attitude that affected things later on, but it's a bit of a stretch to think, like, that was the thing that set them on the path of defeat.

i'm not sure either, again not a harsh criticism of the ussr, i just think the only chance for the soviet union to win the cold war was for the west to collapse first, too many good communists died in ww2 that it was always going to fall during the cold war, so in retrospect things that ended up strengthening the west and harming the (already miniscule, especially in the US) chance of revolution