[yks]

Nah, Stalin didn’t anticipate the attack. And also deposing capitalist regimes, in what would become Allies, was famously the long-standing goal of the USSR

[clanky]

Those capitalist regimes were messing with the USSR continually from the moment of its inception, of course both sides were trying to undermine the other. Only one resorted to the sorts of terror tactics exemplified by the Phoenix Project, Operation Gladio, and the like.

[pqtyw]

> from the moment of its inception

Also saved millions of people from starvation in the early 20s by ending a devasting famine while the Soviets were busy blowing up their economy.

It's not exactly obvious that the Bolshevik regime would have survived the famine of 1921–1922 had Hoover et al. not bailed them out...

[ImJamal]

Of course you missed one major thing. The capitalist regime of Germany was responsible for the creation of the USSR.