User blog comment:For love and happiness!/Was USSR a real Commie? aka DON'T DELETE THIS/@comment-29029659-20170608190955

Marxism is not about destruction of tradition, marxism is an economic system.

Cultural marxism is about the destruction of tradition.

Stalinists didn't praise moral values either, they murdered millions of people and destroyed churches.

Soviet patriotism was a huge part of socialism in the USSR, hence socialism in one country.

Stalin ended church oppression when the war started so he could fuel nationalism against Germany. (Priests and other Christians were killed after his death, again)

It's irrelevant that they were royalists or Saints (like Alexander Nevsky). They were national symbols for Soviet patriotism.

Officer ranks are a basic thing in the military. "People's militia" is a leftist term now, almost every socialist country called their army "The People's Army of.." .

Generally the Soviet soldiers were heroes and did nothing wrong.