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> Not saying the USSR didn't produce a lot of good research and science but they weren't the best at transferring that research into technology the people really wanted

They did not cared, in the first place through. They were not capitalist. They actual failure is that they did not achieved world domination and that they did not managed to build that new superior human they wanted. Those were the ideological goals.

They also did monernized Russia after they came to power, monarchy they replaced was very behind the technology of the time.