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You're deflecting. If the USSR was truly a voluntary workers' paradise, why did nearly all of its republics leave at the first opportunity? You’re avoiding that question by pointing to U.S. wrongdoing, but the reality is that Soviet republics didn’t just ‘entertain’ secession like Texas, they actively fought for it and succeeded.
Comparing minor secessionist sentiments in Texas to the complete collapse of a superstate is absurd.
And you're refusing to accept that political and cultural divisions are a natural part of any state's existence; it has little to do with it being capitalist nor communist and those divisions will be based on the country's disposition. Ie workers rights for a worker's country like the USSR and oligarchical primacy for a country controlled by wealth like the US.
I bring up American successionist movements because they've been a thing for the United States just as much as the they were for the Soviet Union; my point could have probably been better made by the American civil war.