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Russell didn't "have thoughts". Russell physically was in RSFSR in 1920 with a delegation of Western communists, talked to Lenin, spent weeks there and wrote what he saw and heard on the ground.

So I'm sorry but you're the one "having thoughts" here, not Russell.

His account was harshly criticised when he published it. Even though few of his fellow travellers argued with his factual record, they argued he missed "optimism".
He was right, ultimately.